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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When the gardener leaves... | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

What Happens When The Gardener Leaves

Here’s what happens when the gardener decides to have fun and play at the beach instead of tend to their garden. Whoops! In all honest, I’m still so happy with…

A year's worth of onions! | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

Growing A Year’s Worth of Onions!

What a harvest – after growing a year’s worth of onions, it was time to put them up in the root cellar last week. A lot of work but on…

Homemade Manure and Comfrey Tea

I’d like to think that this homemade manure and comfrey tea makes Monty Don and Tasha Tudor proud. It’s a marriage of both of their methods and gardens and I…

Lavender Harvest | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

Here’s What To Do With A Gigantic Lavender Harvest!

I was blessed to pull a huge lavender harvest from our lavender bushes this year. Lavender tends to be a short lived perennial so my five year old bushes are…

The making of a garden pond.

On this week’s YouTube video I’m sharing our garden pond – over a year in the making! While there are still a few pieces to put into place, and the…

A romantic stroll through the cottage gardens | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

A romantic stroll through the cottage gardens (with plant names!)

Come take a romantic stroll with the cottage gardens with me… and thanks to Stuart for spending many hours putting in the plant labels so that everyone can know what…

Managing farm animals in the summer.

Managing farm animals in the summer: it ain’t all beautiful flowers and joyful pottage gardens on the farm. Sometimes, it’s tough animal work and making-do.

Pros & Cons of No-Dig Gardening | The Elliott Homestead

Pros and Cons of No-Dig Gardening

As the saying goes “If I had it to do over…”, well, here’s what I would’ve done different! Today we’re making a new compost area, finally planting the Yukon Gold…

Keeping the gardens beautiful.

Here’s the work we put in to keep the gardens beautiful! To order some beautiful bare roots or bulbs from Brecks, visit: https://bit.ly/3nyYJjP and use the coupon code ELLIOTT30 for…

A spring tour through the cottage gardens | The Elliott Homestead

A Slow Tour Through My Spring Cottage Gardens

Come join me on a visual, slow tour through my spring cottage gardens! I can’t BELIEVE how much the gardens have changed from just a few days ago when this…

The mega market garden is in! | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

The gigantic no dig garden is in!

The brand-spanking new gigantic no dig garden is in! We are putting no dig gardening to the ultimate test and utilizing just two things – cardboard and compost – to…

Progress in the greenhouse.

We’ve made some serious progress in the greenhouse! Not only did we finally get the flooring in, but we’ve been using that seed-starting method I shared with you right here…

On the Homestead: Farm

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