Hidden Hutch Homestead

25/02/2024

And just like that . . . . . We have syrup. 😍 🍁

24/02/2024

Almost 7 gallons of sap currently being boiled down. 😍😍😍

22/02/2024

Continuing our Syrup journey! 5 gallons of sap! Thats a combined gallon a day these past 5 days from both trees. 😍

18/02/2024

You guys . . . . We got 2 drip! 🤣🤣🤣 I’m doing a happy dance.

18/02/2024

We have lived here since 2009 and I have never once thought of tapping my maple trees! Someone on line posted a week or so ago above that tapping Red Maples and the idea has been swimming in my head ever since! Then started tapping their trees and I figured why not try ours! We are a little behind in the time line for the weather, but it will be interesting to see if we get anything out of these guys! Fingers crossed!

16/01/2024

Below freezing temps equal frozen eggs. 🤣

06/01/2024

Our Ruby hurt her foot again. This time her nail. In the house for a few days to recover. 🥰

18/12/2023

We have been under the weather for well over a month now. Our immune systems are just so tired. Recently we started adding fermented honey garlic to our morning regimen and today for lunch I made this delicious soup!

•Recipe•

1 large sweet potatoes (peeled and cubed), 3 handfuls of baby carrots, 2 shallots, 1 yellow onion, 1 can adzuki beans, 6 cloves of garlic, 6 cups chicken broth, 1 cup half and half, 3 tbsp minced ginger, avocado oil, salt, pepper, and cayenne pepper.

Prepare a baking sheet with foil and preheat you oven to 400 degrees. Roughly chop produce, cover in oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast for about 45 mins. Once out of the oven dump the contents of the sheet pan into a stock pot/dutch oven. Add chicken broth, ginger, and beans (you can use which ever beans you like!) and bring to a boil until the carrots and other veggies are tender. Using either and immersion blender (or doing small batches in an upright blender) blend until smooth. Mix in half and half, salt, pepper, and cayenne to taste and bring up to temperature. Enjoy!!

03/11/2023

03/11/2023

Making dinner on our new Fire Pit tonight!!! 🥰

20/10/2023

I recently discovered that mullein was growing in my back yard!!

Mullein has such wonderful medicinal properties! Some of which are - being an expectorant it’s great for loosening up mucus, calms sore throats and helps your lungs, it has vitamin c and other antioxidants, mullein has antiseptics properties to it that fights off germs. It can be used in tea, in steam to help congestion, or applied onto skin in a salve or poultice.

It can treat colds, flus, migraines, inflammation, earaches, and wounds. This hidden gem is an amazing power plant and one I’m thrilled to now have in my pantry.

02/10/2023

It hasn’t been the best gardening season, but I’m thankful for the small harvests we have gotten. 🥰

15/09/2023

Our potato haul this morning!

09/09/2023

Best harvest this season. 🥰

09/08/2023

Best harvest so far! The garden this year is struggling a bit more than last year, but I’m still so happy to be able to go out there and get fresh produce! 😍

01/08/2023

Look at these little cuties!! Almost old enough to go to their Fur-ever homes! 🥰

21/07/2023

My first zucchini!!!!!! I’m so excited!!!

16/07/2023

This cute boy found a new Hutch!! Meeting up with his new people this afternoon!! We only have the Broken Colored Buck left from this litter! 🥰

13/07/2023

Went to check on Mama and babies and found one out of the nesting box getting a snack. 😂 This cutie has their eyes opened a bit and is very adventurous. It immediately curled up with its siblings when put back. 😍

08/07/2023

Did you know that potatoes actually give off Potato Berries aka Potato Fruit or Seed Balls?!?! I learned from that potatoes produce these seeds, but they are actually poisonous to eat. Each berry contains about 300 seeds. You can harvest the seeds and plant those for a brand new crop! This world is so weird and interesting!! Look at our little Seed Ball!! Happy Planting!

07/07/2023

The wonderful thing about having a garden is giving this cuties some of the extras! 😍

06/07/2023

Checking out the garden before the storm hit. 😍

05/07/2023

Haven’t had a Tiger Day Lily bloom in my yard in years!!! I love them so much! 🥰

04/07/2023

Black and White Mulberries! 😍

04/07/2023

I have looked forward to this moment for weeks now. Going out and picking these beautiful berries right ofd the bush. So many more just waiting to ripen and be picked. 🥰

02/07/2023

7 new babies. 😍 Clover did amazing!!!

02/07/2023

I’ve never grown Dragon Tail Radishes before! These things are amazing looking! Can’t wait to try one!!

02/07/2023

Jason and E made Parmesan Ice Cream today! They love watching and trying some of his recipes! This one was oddly delicious! Though our youngest said “It seems butter.” 😂🤷🏻‍♀️ We used the Gelato setting on my ice cream maker and it was the perfect texture!!!

01/07/2023

This was probably one of the best berries I’ve eaten. 😍😍😍

30/06/2023

There is one ready to pick and instead I’m just looking at it. 😍😍😍