Confession: Until very recently, I've never really had any interest in saving seeds from my garden. A homesteading lifestyle is about being self-sufficient and having independence, so you would think that saving seeds would be a common activity by all of us. The truth is, however, that until recent years when seeds were scarce (aka the 2020 Seed Shortage), it hasn’t really been taken very seriously by many gardeners and ...Continue Reading
Torch Carriers
“What’s wrong with us?” My friends and I looked at each other and laughed, but the question lingered in the air. No one had an adequate response. It was 10:22 p.m. on a Friday night in July. It was the kind of summer evening when people are at the lake, or camping, or sitting on the front porch listening to the crickets. But not us. Instead, we sat shoulder to shoulder around a round plastic table in our ...Continue Reading
Ways to Heat Your Greenhouse in the Winter
Here in Wyoming, winters can be brutally cold and crazy windy, so choosing the right greenhouse was pretty important. When we started our search, we discovered that there are so many options, and it was easy to feel overwhelmed. Even though we have cold, snowy, windy Wyoming winters, we still chose to go with an unheated greenhouse. It wasn’t an easy decision, and all the choices did overwhelm us at first. In the end, we found The ...Continue Reading
Ways to Cool Your Greenhouse in the Summer
Adding a greenhouse to our homestead was a dream come true. When we first decided it was in our budget, I was ready to just start building. It didn't take long for us to realize it isn't that simple. What we discovered is that when researching greenhouses, there is a flood of information, a lot of different options, and many extra things to consider. And on top of that, there's also a learning curve to starting to use one (I ...Continue Reading
Blogging Like It’s 1999
Twelve years. That's how long my current blog has been running. Of course, there have been a few hiatuses during that time. Like the months when morning sickness was so severe I couldn't write. Or seasons when all my energies went into writing books or buying soda fountains... But my blog has remained a constant in my life since the October day in 2010 when I sat at my tiny kitchen island while my baby slept and opened an account on ...Continue Reading