On the Homestead: Farm

It’s not always glamorous or clean, but at least life on the farm is entertaining, beautiful, and oh-so-delicious. Follow along with recipes, dreams and confessions, and garden growing here.

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Becoming A Morning Person.

I like quiet time. That’s the reason I’m a morning person. Unlike children who writhe and weep over forced rest time away from others, I relish in it. In fact,…

Life with ducklings.

A flock of little ducklings has taken up residence in my greenhouse. You think I’d be angry? You’d think I’d mind the noise and the mess? Turns out, life with…

French Lavender Love.

Around the farm, summer smells like soft peaches, freshly sliced tomatoes, and bundles of french lavender. Come along for the harvest, won’t you? There’s a sweet treat if you make…

July Cottage Gardens.

A photographic tour through the potager gardens in July.

What To Plant To Get The Look

Though far from exhaustive, this list will get you headed in the right direction if the cottage garden is the look you’re trying to achieve in your own space. Hollyhocks…

My Gardens

The Potager: The potager is a large garden that surrounds the outside of our home. It has large gravel pathways and beds lined with local rocks. The garden beds flow…

Keeping a Tidy Garden

This isn’t survival gardening anymore, baby.

Childhood Unplugged

Wondering what my kids do all day while I’m gardening? Here’s how they live childhood unplugged. Make sure to follow us on YouTube for weekly videos from the cottage.

Gardener Hand Salve Recipe

Gardener Hand Salve Recipe. My hands have spent the better part of each day these past few weeks sunken deep down into the warming soil. In fact, just today, they’ve…

Error on the side of more!

Question: How many seeds should I plant each spring? Answer: Error on the side of more, baby! Make sure to follow us on YouTube for weekly videos from the cottage.

What to order from Azure Standard.

Wondering what to order from Azure Standard? Here’s what I get! Yes, we still get a lot from the store. That is, until I figure out how to make olive…

We’ve never shown you this room before…

Beneath our kitchen lies a hundred-year-old root cellar that you’ve never seen… see how we converted it and made the most of what this ‘ol farm has to offer.

On the Homestead: Farm

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