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After a long hard winter, few things are more welcome than sunshine and warmth…at least until you get your first sunburn and itchy bug bites, right? 🙂 15 Innovative Approaches You Need To Know About Minimizing Summer Insect Annoyances There are many natural and earth friendly ways to minimize pests of the insect variety. There…
The Dandy Dandelion Dandi-lions Yes, I know I spelled that wrong. I know it is spelled dandelion. I was thinking about how I like the name, which is comprised of two words. Dandy and Lion. I wondered also how much trouble this spelling of dropping the Y and putting the E in its place when…
Spring Chick Days 2019 It is spring time and spring chick days started at the end of February. Tractor Supply is running a fan photo contest. Here on Harmony Homestead I had a hatch that had only 1 turkey and they do best when they have chicks with them to teach them to eat and…
an Are you ready for Easter 2019? The Easter dinner groceries are bought and put away. Tomorrow we will be boiling and dying eggs for Easter morning. Some of my eggs won’t need dying thanks to my Easter Egger chickens. Tomorrow I am going to boil eggs in my Instant-Pot for the first time….
I am linking up at Farm Fresh Tuesdays, Its been awhile but I am happy to be back at the blog hop. Goals for the winter During the winter I hoped to check off a lot of these things mentioned in this article about winter homesteading activities. Strengthening your homesteading skills and staying productive during…
A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned As I was cleaning out my ‘saved’ articles from Facebook I came across this link. This gave me food for thought. Can I be more of a producer than consumer? Can I cut down on wasteful spending through some of these ideas? A penny saved is a penny…
Chicken Coop Light Solution My husband was tossing out a hanging light that was being discarded on one of the job sites. Then I was inspired and wanted to turn the wire shade part of it into something for the chicken coop. I have been using some solar bulbs out there that I…
Harmony Homestead Happenings It is the first day of spring and yesterday my rooster found his crow. The days are getting longer and I am finding one duck egg a day. Now if only the hens would start laying again. We had eggs due to hatch over the weekend. It was not a huge success….
Its that time of year, the days are getting longer. Spring is in the air the snow and ice are melting. It is time for hatching chicks, sprouting seedlings and tapping trees. We have only about a 1/4 of an inch of sap so far but it is supposed to start running good soon. The…
Maple Syrup: Time To Tap Those Trees It won’t be long before Maple Sunday is upon is. Spring is in the air today. Tonight is daylight savings time. In spite of having to wade through 3 feet of snow my husband went out and tapped our trees today. We have 10 buckets up. That is…