Vintage Home and Farm

23/04/2023

The latest from our little farm. ❤️

Paul put up a new fence around our garden over the winter. This one is much sturdier than the previous fence and will surely not tip over or...

31/01/2022

Knotty pine walls in our vintage 1940s bedroom

12/10/2021

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We have a problem with one of our cats, Grey Guy, who is morbidly obese. A house cat like him should weigh a maximum of 10 pounds, but Grey...

03/08/2021

Bad boy ducks moved to the garden...details in our blog!

09/04/2021

Finished painting the beehives that dad built. Here's the second one with it's final coat of paint. Next step is to build a platform for these to rest on.

06/03/2021

Plum branches that I brought inside when we were pruning (the plum tree was crowding a pear tree). The buds opened up a few days after putting these in the vase.

04/03/2021

The ferns along the Olympic Discovery Trail are so green and lush. I’ve never seen bigger, healthier ferns before.

04/03/2021

Hardening off peas before planting them in the garden

09/02/2021

Will our winter garden survive?

http://www.vintagehomeandfarm.com/2021/02/will-our-winter-garden-survive.html

Our winter garden has been doing really well up until now, but we've had a fairly mild winter to this point. We could see devastation out t...

26/01/2021

Flour, water and salt.

26/01/2021

Sourdough is getting easier!

Yesterday morning I made traditional sourdough bread without using a recipe. Feeling lazy and deciding to try winging it, I figured traditio...

25/01/2021

Enjoy the ambiance of knotty pine walls? See a home with knotty pine throughout in this book that’s available to download from Amazon.

12/01/2021

We ordered our 2021 seeds from Deep Harvest Farm and Seeds, located on Whidbey Island. They provide open-pollinated, organic seeds. Our order arrived in record time! So excited for the 2021 growing season! http://www.vintagehomeandfarm.com/2021/01/our-garden-seed-order-arrived.html

01/01/2021

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To bring good fortune and prosperity in the new year, we made a lemon pig, and additionally we've got some spicy barbecue flavored black eye...

21/10/2020

Girls meet boys! See the blog for more!

20/10/2020

Here are our three boy ducks...Someone we know has too many ducks and may be giving us three girl ducks...so the boys might soon have mates!

07/10/2020

Time to harvest pumpkins from the garden!

10/07/2020

These ducks are so cute that it's worth sharing a video of them splashing and swimming in their little blue pool. Joining them are their two...

25/06/2020

If you are cooking with farm-fresh eggs, you know how much of a challenge it is to peel them when they have been hard boiled. The shells st...

11/06/2020

Friends have asked us what our goals are for raising ducks and whether it's any harder to raise ducks versus chickens. Our goals in raising ...

27/04/2020

Like most everyone else, we've been hunkering down at home and doing our best not to catch and spread COVID-19 in our community. Daily phon...

04/04/2020

Aren't ducklings cute? We couldn't resist. On Thursday my daughter helped me clean out the giant metal feeding trough that will serve as t...

18/03/2020

Gardening can be a great way to relieve stress and anxiety. I know most of us are feeling some level of stress as we're reading the news an...

08/02/2020

Over the past few years we have begun to collect a number of homestead books that we refer to time and again. We'd like to share information...

07/02/2020

The other day, a visiting friend noticed a cookie sheet filled with baked eggshells cooling my counter and inquired about it. I guess it do...

07/02/2020

Dry skin in winter can be a persistent concern and can lead to rough, cracked skin that takes months to heal. Whether it's your hands, knees...

05/12/2019

Sure did enjoy making our first ever batch of apple cider with our friends!

We missed out on making apple cider with Paul's childhood friends because we didn't have all the pieces we needed to grind and press the a...

21/11/2019

It’s time to bake pumpkin!

Hello friends! This morning I am baking a few of the sugar pie pumpkins that were grown here on our farm. What I love about this task is tha...

17/11/2019

The perfect spot for a weary dog.

05/11/2019

Over the weekend, my husband found a great deal on a zero-turn Kubota mower with a two-bin bagger, and due to the amount of yard that we n...

03/11/2019

The wood splitting crew...we’re getting closer to the end of splitting the 68,000 pounds of firewood from the hazard trees. http://www.vintagehomeandfarm.com/2019/06/gathering-68000-pounds-of-free-firewood.html

29/10/2019

Finished digging the grass out of the flower bed, and then swept the entryway. Found a pretty blue bauble in the dirt. What a beautiful, sunny day!

29/10/2019

They are giving away $50 in heirloom seeds! https://seedsforgenerations.com/heirloom-seed-giveaway-ogw/?ref_id=IH27922794&utm_source=upviral&utm_medium=social&utm_name=GiveawayOGW2019

We’re happy to be a Sponsor of the Organic Gardening Workshop, and to offer this Heirloom Seed Giveaway contest! A special 25% off discount offer will be given after entering the giveaway too! Enter for your chance to win a $50 store credit from Seeds for Generations, a small family business that ...

28/10/2019

We’re enjoying taking care of our friends‘ pasture pet, Patch the donkey.