If you are like me you spend your Winter months pouring over seed catalogs and dreaming about Spring. There are a few projects that I am dreaming about this Winter. I would love to hear about the projects you are dreaming about adding to your homestead, come Spring....

Grow Your Own Food Right Where You Are!

Let’s face it growing your own food can be a mystery, especially if you have never done it before. My passion is to show you how to grow your own fresh organic groceries right where you are!
Front Yard Garden
Merry Christmas Message on a Scary Moonlit Night!
We were a little on the edge after the Bobcat attack. So on the night before Christmas when not a creature was suppose to be stirring, I bolted out of bed, using that uncanny mom instinct, that reacts to strange noises. I was up and out the door before I totally woke...
Raising Insects, Not Just For Chickens, But For Us?
I know it is the busy Christmas season, but in my down time I am really enjoying the podcasts that Greg Peterson at The Urban Farm in Arizona is putting out. I say downtime, but in reality downtime for me is listening to a podcast while I do the dishes. What can...
The Fall Bounty; We are Thankful!
Our Thanksgiving week end was filled with spending time with family and friends, with a little excitement of an 911 emergency visit to the hospital of a dear friend, thrown in there. I have to say that spending the day in the hospital emergency room really helped to...
Extra Extra! Read about the Featured Farm: Bloom Where You’re Planted!
What an honor to be the Featured Farmer this month at the Urban Farm in Arizona! Greg Peterson and his team at The Urban Farm have been such an inspiration to me. Now I see myself and my little homestead from the outside looking in and I realize I might be an...
Green Tomatoes; Garden to Table Recipe
The day before the first freeze here in North Texas we were busily gathering crops. One of these crops were tomatoes; green tomatoes that is. Here in the south our first crop of tomatoes, before the hotter than hell period, ripen up beautifully. Then there is a tomato...

Dash
Hi there, my name is Anne-Marie, but my friends call me Dash from the -dash- in my name. My homestead journey started out with one prayer. “Please help me get nutritious, organic food for my family.” Wow, I was surprised how God went about answering that prayer! …..Read More!