Rewilder Life

22/09/2024

On this podcast episode Rachel talks about some of the beneficial ways to use grains in the homestead kitchen, focusing on grinding. soaking, and sprouting of

22/09/2024

In this podcast episode, Harold and Rachel share their insights on how to generate income from a small homestead. They explore 23 different strategies,

22/09/2024

In this episode of the Modern Homesteading Podcast, Harold has a chat with Jordy Buck, a seasoned homesteader who’s been on the show a couple of times before.

22/09/2024

The cheapest place to store water = ? 🤔

Is it a pond?

Is it a water tank?

Nope.

The **soil** is the cheapest place to store water and is the largest storage resource available on most sites.

Think about it:

To water a ½ acre food forest during a 2-week drought, you need an average of 26,000 gallons (~100,000 L ) of water.

​*(This is a common guideline for orchards and food forests (source: Edible Forest Gardens book): 1 inch (25 mm) of water each week of the growing season. During a drought, plants typically require more frequent watering, so we’ll double the weekly water requirement.)​​*Let’s scale down that number for the sake of simplicity and math and say you need 20,000 gallons or 75,000 L.

In terms of storage, you would need one big storage tank of 20,000 gallons.

Average cost -> USD$40,000.

Contrast that with the cost of shaping the earth to promote water infiltration, distribution, and storage:

If you own a tractor with a standard one-bottom plow or subsoiler, for the cost of fuel in half an hour, you could plow some keyline swales and shape the earth to promote infiltration and soil organic matter creation.

Let’s say you spend 1 gallon of fuel which ends up costing you USD$5.

$40,000 vs $5.

Isn’t that mindblowing?

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20/09/2024

A very rare day home and inside for me.

So I am working on some Gluten Free Sourdough English Muffins and roasted tomatoes.

The peppers listened and are slowly turning!!

20/09/2024

Oh come on!! Turn red already!!!!

17/09/2024

16/09/2024

I had to hand water trees yesterday. I thought we were over having to do this when we had great rains all spring but this summer has been very dry. I used about 80 gallons of water. We have no power and no water out at the new homestead so we have to improvise. The pond is dry so we can’t pump from there. Thankfully we can get water from neighbors. And again, thankfully the hubby knows his stuff and we hooked a battery up to a camping shower. My legs and arms walked and dumped bucket after bucket after bucket of water.

Thankfully water and power are coming soon. Better yet! Rain and snow! We need big snowfalls this winter to catch up. I’m praying for a hard long winter because we need it for many reasons. Insect pressure and the soil!

Remember folks, needing isn’t the same as wanting. 😉

14/09/2024

Absolutely beat. What a hot day spent working. We need rain in the worst way.

This is one of our ponds that has dried up.

We are back at hand watering trees.

😳

14/09/2024

It’s still dark here at the homestead (6:50 am). The days are getting shorter, nights are cool and the trees are changing.

The farm house is coming along. We have a few things left to wait on, the main being power.

At the current homestead house we are living in we have been watering all the trees, shrubs and plants that will be moved here. It looks like the air layering on the mulberries was successful, we will see. Not so much on the apple but again we will see.

We are in a drought and we can’t move plants here until we get rain. But we will do what we have to do. Hundreds of plants must be moved before snow flies.

10/09/2024

15 quarts of walking onions in the freezer.

Walking onions are a onion that comes back and replicates every year by tipping over and planting the seed bulbs into the ground. Hence, ‘walking onion’. They are small but a bit spicy, similar in size to shallots. I love them because I no longer fuss over getting onions to grow.

09/09/2024

Great deal and congratulations Beth Declercq!! Your program is outstanding!! I’m so happy others are noticing your hard work.

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08/09/2024

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08/09/2024

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RE: ReWilder

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08/09/2024

On This Podcast Episode, Harold and Rachel have a discussion about the benefits of preserving a year's worth of SOMETHING from the homestead as opposed to trying to grow everything you need for the entire year.

04/09/2024

The love and hard work that went into the very first apple at our new homestead was A LOT… pumping water from ponds, moving it with the tractor, hand watering, mulching with anything we could find (bark, leaves, grass)… we did this for a couple years. But now this beautiful Golden Delicious..

Yay!

27/08/2024

First year of the thornless blackberries. HUGE

27/08/2024

The septic is in at the second homestead. We are getting there!!

27/08/2024

Here are a few things you should know about hunting squirrels that will increase your chances of a successful and enjoyable hunt.

16/08/2024

We don’t know much about the farm that was once here except the little barn was once part of a much bigger farm. The old stone walls of the barn basement are still visible but it was small and had a small silo. Anyway, in making the asparsgus and strawberry bed we found rocks the farmer probably buried to get out of the way.

I hope in the future we learn more about the farm, it’s too hilly to ever have been plowed so we suspect probably animals were grazed here.

13/08/2024

Yummy!!! Thanks to the yummy gift of jam, we have gluten free mini pies. Cherry Republic

12/08/2024

I did an experiment with Black Locust seed. I soaked half in almost boiling water for 24 hours, the other half I scarified and soaked for 24 hours. Both of them are coming up today. We will see which one has a higher germination rate. I had 25 seeds of each).