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A Great Educational Resource
There are many resources available for home-schoolers, public educators, and especially for parents. We watch our kids carefully on the internet, and many social forums are not so good. There is one site that I would recommend, both for adults … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Homeschool
Tagged children, discussion, education, educational information, educatonal resource, family, free educational resources, free games, games, help with research questions, history, homeschool, reasearch, research paper topics, research papers, school, science, teaching, teaching tools
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Photo Editing Equipment
I love photography, and I love making art with my photographs! I don’t have a lot of extra money sitting around the homestead, though, so I decided about a year ago to download a free program called GIMP to do … Continue reading
Illness on the Homestead
It’s bound to happen eventually. You are going along, minding your own business, living as healthfully as you can, and that nasty bug bites you, leaving you miserable or totally bed-ridden with chores and other homestead responsibilities still having to … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Homesteading
Tagged children, illness, medicine, natural healing, natural health, sick
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The Best Medicine
My family is sick. Halloween candy has done it’s work on my normally healthy loved ones, and illness has raised it’s ugly head. I am so very thankful I am prepared for this very thing with a medicine better than … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Gluten-free, Homesteading, Natural Health
Tagged animal, animals, baking, broth, children, diet, eating well, family, healing, homemade broth, homemade stock, homestead, homesteading, kitchen, sickness, soup, stock, treating illness
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Fire
I enjoy photography, the way I can capture a moment in time and work with it until the feel of that time stands out so that I can share it with others. It is said that a picture is worth … Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged digital images, digital photography, editing images, fire, fire pictures, photography, pictures of fire
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Farm Diet: Week 2
Ahhhh, another week closer to all that great holiday food! This week I’m going to give you some diet help that most people wold scoff at in this country, but it works. These are mostly things we add to our … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Gluten-free, Homesteading, Natural Health
Tagged artificial sweeteners, bad fat, butter, diet, eating well, good fat, illness, making good food choices, margerine, natural health, olive oil, sea salt, shortening, sugar
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Building a Milk Stand
Yesterday my boys helped me build a larger milk stand for our new Alpine goat. She is much taller and longer that the nigerian dwarfs, so we really needed another stand. Here, the boys are helping nail down the deck … Continue reading
Posted in Goats, Homeschool, Homesteading
Tagged animal, animal care, animals, build milking stand, building, children building, farm, farm life, farm projects, goat, goat care, goat milking, homeschool, homeschool activity, homestead, homesteading, milk goat, milk stanchion, milk stand
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Homesteading 101: Week 2
By now you should have some basic plans for your homestead, and have hopefully done some reading. If you missed the first week of this class, you may read it here. Now, for this week we are going to begin … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, Homesteading
Tagged container gardening, fruit, fruit trees, garden, garden plants, gardening, getting started gardening, homesteading, planting, plants, raised beds, vegetables, veggies
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Notes From the Johnston County Goat Festival
Yesterday was the Johnston County Goat Festival in eastern NC. It is a free event, hosted annually, and consists of classes on goats, goat care, and demonstrations on milking, cheese-making, etc. I know a fair bit about goats by now, … Continue reading
Posted in Goats, Homeschool, Homesteading, Uncategorized
Tagged goat, goat care, goat festival, goat information, goats
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Signs of Labor and Giving Birth – Goats
When I first got my goats I bought pygmys that were pregnant. I had no idea what labor looked like, and missed the births from both goats. Later, I bought my first nigerian dwarf goat and wanted to be there … Continue reading
Posted in Goats, Homesteading
Tagged animal, animals, birthing for goats, family, food, freshening, freshening vidoe, goat, goat baby, goat birth, goat birth help, goat birth video, goat care, goat health, goat kidding, goat labor, goat video, goats, helping goat give birth, homeschool, homesteading, how a goat gives birth, kidding, see goat giving birth, signs of labor in goats
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