Jen-pi
Lovin' The Homestead
Hi guys! Ive been reading this forum for quite some time and I figured I would go ahead and bite the bullet and start a journal.
Im a 36 year old mother of two boys. We have two adopted Beagles and six chickens. We had seven, but poor Mario kicked the bucket. Have been married to my husband for 11 years.
We have an old farmhouse in North Central Wisconsin with five acres. There is a big barn and a smaller one on our property. I guess the big barn was a "grain" barn back in the day so it has an open loft. Our chicken coop is built into the barn. There is a door that leads in from their fenced in cjicken (dog) kennel. During the day we let them free range wherever they may please and when they go home to roost, we lock them up.
I have two gardens, one being slightly larger than the other. The smller garden this year was the tomato/pepper garden. My husband started from seed about a half a million pepper and tomato plants - figuring we would get about half to actually germinate and survive. (So his math meant we would have then, two hundred and fifty thousand plants)? Anyway, of course they all germinated and thrived in our south facing bay window. I was giving plants away at the end of May! Sheesh!
In the bigger garden, we had (more peppers) yellow, buttercup, and acorn squash, beans, cucumbers, sugar peas, garlic, onions, watermelon, cantalope and a volunteer pumpkin.
Soooo....I was a canning and freezing fool come July and August!
Anyway, Im here because I would like to become better at being SS. I HATE going to the grocery store. It just makes me sick to see all of the pre-packaged sh&% they have.
Just wanted to introduce myself.
I will write more tomorrow!
Im a 36 year old mother of two boys. We have two adopted Beagles and six chickens. We had seven, but poor Mario kicked the bucket. Have been married to my husband for 11 years.
We have an old farmhouse in North Central Wisconsin with five acres. There is a big barn and a smaller one on our property. I guess the big barn was a "grain" barn back in the day so it has an open loft. Our chicken coop is built into the barn. There is a door that leads in from their fenced in cjicken (dog) kennel. During the day we let them free range wherever they may please and when they go home to roost, we lock them up.
I have two gardens, one being slightly larger than the other. The smller garden this year was the tomato/pepper garden. My husband started from seed about a half a million pepper and tomato plants - figuring we would get about half to actually germinate and survive. (So his math meant we would have then, two hundred and fifty thousand plants)? Anyway, of course they all germinated and thrived in our south facing bay window. I was giving plants away at the end of May! Sheesh!
In the bigger garden, we had (more peppers) yellow, buttercup, and acorn squash, beans, cucumbers, sugar peas, garlic, onions, watermelon, cantalope and a volunteer pumpkin.
Soooo....I was a canning and freezing fool come July and August!
Anyway, Im here because I would like to become better at being SS. I HATE going to the grocery store. It just makes me sick to see all of the pre-packaged sh&% they have.
Just wanted to introduce myself.
I will write more tomorrow!