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
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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?
P.S. For step-by-step guidance on designing your permaculture property and its water systems, you can check out my Farm Design course here: https://permacultureconversion.com/farm-design-enrolment-2024/
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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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).
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Food is medicine, making farming/homesteading a medical profession. Getting quality clean food, sunlight, fresh air, God’s music, and exercise is so important to your health! Homesteading gets you all of this! The only thing missing from this video is milk cows, pigs, chickens and other livestock. But I am on a very small lot so I don’t have them. But my farmers do! And they are excellent farmers. #foodismedicine #growwhereyouareplanted #farms #knowyourfarmer #rawmilkrevolution #meatheals #livestockfarming
Last falls Apple Cider has turned to vinegar and hard cider.
The difference between sprouted brown rice flour and regular brown rice flour.
4 ingredient corn chips
Corn, lime, salt and tallow. For local friends these gorillas can be found at the Latino Grocery. Best chips ever. See the comments for the nachos photo.
Morning Brew
Thanks to @twochickshomestead the morning brew has a raw egg added. Wow so creamy and lots of B vitamins.
Back to basics here. Sprouts, specifically broccoli, alfalfa and a salad mix. Salad, sandwiches, soups.
In the Dark of Winter
Sunrise is 8:19 today and sunset is 5:10. The irony of this is we won’t see the sun at all. I don’t struggle with depression now they I have my vitamin D optima and good fats in my diet but the lack of sunlight or even seeing the sun does bring on the winter dull drums. So I have my happy lap out! It really does help me wake faster in the mornings.
Hard Candy…
The Christmas baking has started. One of the rare times I use flavorings and corn syrup. Hey, I’m not perfect. 😉
Millet/Buckwheat loaf
I used the same recipe but tried 1/2 buckwheat. Pretty good! I’m still amazed how simple this recipe is and how good it is. 1.25 cups (200g)of millet flour (I ground fresh) 1.25 cups buckwheat (200g) fresh milled 2 t baking powder 3/4 t find salt 1/2 t baking soda 2.5 cups (593 ml) water 1T ACV .33 cup (27g) psyllium husk It is best to weigh these recipes if you can but for experiment purposes I have done both ways and it has worked well. I have also used soaked grains to pre digest some of the grains anti-nutrients. Preheat oven to 325°F Grease pan In one bowl mix all dry ingredients except the psyllium in a bowl and sift. In another bowl add all liquids and the psyllium. Let soak and gel for 5 minutes. Mix the two together. It will take a bit of effort but it does mix. Put dough in the pan and shape with wet hands. Bake 90 minutes. It will sound hollow when done. I add butter to the top when done, you could use olive oil or coconut oil. Let cool completely before slicing. I will probably continue to try some different grains. For me this is about growing some grains I can make bread with. I have been very successful growing corn and somewhat growing sorghum. I will also start trying to sub in an egg or two… slow and steady… 🐢 🐰
I’m alive and exhausted but I am alive. I was blessed with an opportunity to meet Harold, my cohost, in person this last weekend! I also taught about food preservation, canning this time. It’s been a wild ride, I drove almost 1000 miles. Redemption Permaculture and The Modern Homesteading Podcast Dave and Sonya in Michigan Joel Salatin Shawn & Beth Dougherty.
Gluten Free Pumpkin Doughnut Holes
GF Pumpkin doughnut holes fried in tallow. Treats are rare around here but when we do them, we do them right. No seed oils, no fake ingredients. Just gluten free grains or starches, spices, sugar, butter, tallow, and love… Slow food is real food! No Franken Foods here! #slowfood #slowfoodisrealfood #nofrakenfood #tallow
We get up pretty early around here, we also go to bed pretty early. Some buckwheat, brown rice and cassava pancakes with local maple syrup. Olds Farm LLC
Busy days here. I’ve been preserving food from the gardens, trees and doing some other exciting things. #growwhereyoureplanted #rewilderlife #slowfood #simplelife #homesteadkitchen #homesteading #garden #canning #fillingthelarder #puttingfoodby #foodpreservation
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