This area is where I will share news and events of our ventures into homesteading. We hope to turn 10 acres of sagebrush and cactus into something a bit more verdant and productive through the use of a very limited supply of irrigation water, capturing and putting rain water & snow melt to good use … Continue reading Homestead Happenings
Month: March 2019
Planning Gardens
Over the course of my adult life (40+ years), I’ve tried many different approaches to gardening, in many widely different areas of the United States, from north-central California to Florida to the Midwest to the Deep South, a couple of different areas of the Rockies, and now the high desert I currently live in. I … Continue reading Planning Gardens
Update from the Chicken Coop
A week ago yesterday, March 3, I found the first lovely brown egg in the nest boxes. Celebration! Okay, so it was only one, but that was one more than I’ve gotten any day so far, and what a promise of things to come. Every day brought one or two more eggs so that by … Continue reading Update from the Chicken Coop
