Wham Bam Garlic
So remember that post where I was scared to plant garlic for fear of failure? …….well the fear is still there, BUT so is the garlic! I’m so excited I could pinch myself. However, I still keep in the back…
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Tag Archive: Homestead
I NEED Chickens…
…Like yesterday. It’s been a year since we butchered our free range chickens after many attempts to save them from coyotes. No matter what we did, we just couldn’t take the free range out of the birds. So the decision…
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A Year in Retrospect
As the one year anniversary of The Givens Grove blog approached, I had some tough questions for myself. How do I feel about continuing the blog? Do I like it? Does it stress me out? Is it pointless? Ugh…..tough questions….
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Dun Gone And Dun It
Chad and I have owned/built several houses since we married, but those houses were always built to sell. They were never truly mine. Actually, I haven’t lived in a home that was “mine” per-say since I was 8 years old. …
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I Dream Of Bovine
Yes, those are cows out my car window. We live in the country but still….cows wandering the roads freely isn’t exactly normalcy. But dreaming about them……totally normal for any up and coming homesteader. Promise. For three years I have wanted…
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Broccoli, Potato, Leek Soup
Man that was a mouth full. I should really come up with a new name for it, but for now this tired mama needs to reserve battery power for more important operations. Like keeping Logan from climbing to the top…
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Farm Goals
It’s that time of year. The time where you naturally assess your life and where you want to go. The possibilities are endless, literally. The span of your imagination is the only limitation you have. Well, your imagination and your…
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Livestock Guardian Dogs…Or Something Like That
For about a year Chad and I have thrown around the idea of getting a new dog so that our older pup Roxy, a Labrador, could train them to….you know….not kill chickens. It may come as a surprise, but 9…
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We Need A Chicken Coop….Yesterday
As with every thing in my life…I wait till the last minute. Oh, it’s 6pm and there are whimpering children with hunger pains…I should probably figure out what is actually for dinner. Or, Logan turned a year old two months…
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I Can’t Do This
That is how I felt after the first 24 hours of being a chicken owner. Up till that point in my life I had never dealt with an animal “dying”. Yes, I had had a few cats and a dog…
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