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Homestead Rescue Update #3 – Goats & Wood House
Drought tolerant goats? I still laugh every time I think about that line in the show, but props to the producers for trying to tie it in somehow. I’m not sure any animal…
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Growing Garlic – A No-Water Crop
I was a little late getting my garlic planted this year and even later getting this post written! In many climates, you can still get your garlic planted throughout November, so now is…
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Homestead Rescue Update #2 – Hugelkultur Garden!
Hugel-what? Hugelkultur is the type of gardening technique that Misty Raney helped me put in on our homestead during our episode of Homestead Rescue. Hugelkultur is a German word meaning “mound” or “hill”…
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Planting Egyptian Walking Onions – A new crop!
I’m excited to start a new crop this year that I’ve never tried before. I’ve heard about this perennial onion from several permaculture resources. It will multiply year after year once planted. I…
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Success! Our Winter Stock Up
I often get a little down or anxious about not doing ALL things homesteading yet. Today I am instead celebrating our most successful homesteading year yet! While our accomplishments and winter stock are…
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We’re making a big investment in our future!
We’ve decided to pull the trigger on one of the biggest investments we’ve made yet in the future of our water security on the homestead! We call ourselves RainCatcher Homestead as rain collection…
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Homestead Rescue Update #1 – The Pond!
Thank you to all who watched our episode of Homestead Rescue on Discovery Channel and have expressed interest in our story! We really appreciated the Raney’s coming out to help us and all…
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Our Story – The Short Version
In 2014, after I took an adventure in farming for a couple years, and only a year into dating Anthony, we bought our first home on five acres in Northwest Oregon, outside the…
My blog updates are out of date, but something better is coming in 2024!
I’m sorry to say that I have not kept up on adding new blog posts to this site. The good new is…to answer all the open questions and share all the raw, vulnerable details about what has transpired along the way, I’m writing a BOOK! If you’d like to receive updates via email about our current situation, please subscribe to my list and I’ll include you on all of the sneak peak, unedited chapters of the book also. Looking forward to getting to know you and thank you for your interest in my story!
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