Enjoying a cup of coffee on the porch while the ducks splash in their little swimming pool and the chickens scratch in the sunny pasture. Deciding what to bake from scratch. Walking through the garden to see what rows need to be weeded, replanted, and what ought to be harvested. A chat with the neighbor…
Category: Farmgirl Money (saving it!)
Simplifying Meals and the Budget (So You Want to Be a Homesteader #19)
I am learning a lot this summer. I am learning to simplify my meal plan, my shopping list, and my budget in order to save time, energy, and a whole lot of money that will be used for other things. My meals are usually pretty elaborate affairs. I would always have a long menu plan…
Saving Money with Free Activities
Maybe you would like a cheese press, or a new hoe. Maybe a few goats or maybe you realize that every hour of your life is valuable and perhaps you would like a few of them to not be working a job, but rather enjoying your homestead. In everything, we save money so we can…
The Joyful, Simple Life of a Frugal Housewife
I have a little book that was written by Mrs. Child in 1832. The American Frugal Housewife is surely just as useful today in many senses. The author almost lost me when she noted that coffee was not economical and could be avoided. Oh, she’s a strict one, that Mrs. Child. Her prose is clear…
Getting Back to Simple (and paying off debt)
We are firm believers in the powers of intention and manifestation. You can paint your life however you wish. We were desperately trying to manifest more income. On the full moon we generally each light a candle of gratitude and ask for what we would like to see in our life. Usually it’s more income. …
Farmgirl School; Homesteading 101 (now available on Amazon!)
I never guessed back in 2012 what this would become. I set out to chronicle our adventures in homesteading. To create a template and how-to that we wish we had. We weren’t able to find information on how to farm high altitude, or how to bottle feed a goat, or how to do any of…
DIY and the Three R’s
Homesteaders old and new must be so busy we had to find acronyms for everything! DIY-Do It Yourself. So, when our friend, Ingrid, said to look up videos on YouTube to see how to fix the fridge, we wondered why we didn’t think of that! We are homesteaders after all! Armed with a drill and…
Saving for the Farm
$140.27. Nancy handed me a green cover for the deposit register to symbolize a farm. When I was little my mother had me split up all of my money into three jars. Ten percent went to savings, ten percent went to church, and the rest I could do as I pleased. Doug and I lived…
The Job to Make a Dream
After our farm dream temporarily came to a halt (which ended up being a very good thing as gigantic windmills were installed across the street looming over the farm, the propane tank accidentally blew up, and the distance and dream were just not quite right…hind sight…a very good thing indeed. Sometimes we have to be…
The Frantic Mom’s Guide to Dinner
Too bad supper doesn’t roll around when we have excess energy instead of at the end of the day! “Should we just go out?” one ponders. But if $40 is to go towards gas and not a so-so restaurant than mama has to get in the kitchen and figure it out. Pour a glass of…
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