“Cultivating the Homestead Community”
Welcome to the 43rd edition of the Homestead Barn Hop- the first Hop of 2012!
I hope you and your family had a refreshing holiday season. I know we did, and now I’m ready to get back to life-as-usual!
2011 was a wonderful year for my homestead. We added our first cattle, brought home a new batch of chicks, remodeled and repainted our barn and shop, had a productive garden, and built nearly a mile of fence!
I can’t wait to see what 2012 holds for us. As I’ve said before, one of my most favorite parts of homesteading is all the new skills to learn and grow through. I have quite a few goals on my list of things to new for 2012. How about you? I’d love to hear about your goals for the upcoming year in the comments!
Now let’s get down to the business of this week’s Hop! I so enjoy visiting your homesteads each and every Monday. Thank you to everyone who has made it a success so far!
This hop is hosted by The Prairie Homestead, along with three other fantastic homesteading gals:
Amy from Homestead Revival, Kendra from New Life on a Homestead, and Megan from A Blossoming Homestead!
We encourage you to stop by every Monday and share your latest homesteading posts with us. From cooking to animals to gardening, we want to hear what’s been happening at your homestead this week!
Some Simple Guidelines:
1. Remember to provide a link back to the Homestead Barn Hop in the post that you share. Feel free to grab the banner at the top of this post, if you would like, and use it to link back to us!
2. Please link to a specific post, not your blog’s main page.
3. If you don’t have a blog, share your latest homestead updates in a comment on this post!
4. We, the hosts of the Barn Hop, reserve the right to remove any link that we deem inappropriate or offensive. We will err on the side of caution.
Have fun, get to know some new homesteading friends, and be sure to join us every Monday!
(If you are reading this post via email, click through to see all of this week’s links!)
Happy 2012!
We have so many plans, it’d take all night to list them here
The short list includes growing more food, getting a few more chickens, learning more about our bees, planting an herb garden and learning how to make more things from scratch.
That sounds like a great list to me!
Happy New Year Jill!
I forgot to add the barn hop button, will add tomorrow at the library. I don’t know how to add it from my phone!
We added a great campfire cooker on our website, love for you to check it out!
I will be blogging soon about some new additions to the homestead, you and Amy inspired us…Here come the goats!
- Abby Jo
AAAHHH! SO excited to hear about your goats! You guys are gonna have a blast!
No worries about the button, and I’m off to check out the campfire cooker- sounds intriguing!
Whwere do I get the code to add your button to my blog?
Hey Missy-
All you have to do is right click on the Barn Hop image at the top of the post, then upload it into your blog editor. If you have any troubles with that, let me know!
My son recently posted “Rooster Psychology” on our blog. I’d love to hear from others whether any of these methods worked for you. We’ve had two roosters on both ends of the “niceness” spectrum, and now we have a young one the boys are hoping to train in good manners. What do you think? Thanks! ~Jill
Happy New Year! So glad to start off my new year with your blog hop
My goal for the year is to double the size of my garden this spring and build a chicken coop (with chickens of course)…lol
Soooo many hopeful plans for 2012~!!! Thanks for the great link party!!