by Heidi Madsen | May 16, 2017 | Off-Grid Living, The Homestead
On April 10th our apprentice Hallie picked up our seventeen day old chicks from the local farm store and got them situated with the water, food, and warming cave! Since we live off-grid with just a modest solar panel system, we aren’t able to use a typical heat...
by Heidi Madsen | May 11, 2017 | Gardening, Kids Classes, Nature
Our Earth Warriors Nature Club started up again today with a lovely group of kids. Tending gardens and planting seeds for the first day…I had almost forgotten how much I love this life. Our meander up the switchbacks was a hunt for stones to paint for our...
by Heidi Madsen | Apr 30, 2017 | Gardening, The Homestead
We had the pleasure of hosting two wonderfully synergistic permaculture apprentice groups this month and they helped us make HUGE progress on our medicinal garden beds!! The process of building these raised beds begins with gathering brush from the land to form the...
by Heidi Madsen | Apr 4, 2017 | Gardening, The Homestead
Here’s an aerial view so you can see how we hope to expand the gardens this year! (The blue outline is our existing “kitchen garden”…the yellow outline is space we hope to fill this season with terraced beds on the south-facing...
by Heidi Madsen | Mar 31, 2017 | Gardening, The Homestead
The girls and I spiffed up the garden paths today with some fresh straw. ❤ (The cardboard is to smother the brambles that have started to poke through.) This is our “kitchen garden” that we actually started before we were even camping here on the land. In...
