The Hottest Room in August: Thinking About a Ceiling Fan for the Preserving Kitchen
Preserving happens in the hottest month, in a kitchen that was never designed…
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One Thing Was Enough to Start With
A friend sat at my kitchen table with a printed list of thirty…
Self Sufficiency Is Mostly a Story, and Partly Not
I traced every input in one homemade breakfast back to where it came…
Do Backyard Chickens Save Money? Mine Do Not
I kept a running tally for two years because I wanted the honest number. It is not close, and it is not going to get close.…
Autumn Is Mostly Putting Things Away
Nobody photographs this part. Autumn on a small lot is dragging dead vines to the compost pile, coiling…
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All 6 in SeasonsAutumn Is Mostly Putting Things Away
Nobody photographs this part. Autumn on a small lot is dragging dead vines to the compost pile, coiling hoses, and doing the boring work that decides…
What Summer Actually Does to This Yard
I left for a week in July and came home to a yard that had given up. Summer here is not the abundant part of the…
The Changeover Weeks Are the Busiest Part of the Year
The hardest stretches in this yard are not deep summer or deep winter. They are the seams between seasons, when one thing has not finished and…
I Missed the Spring Window Again
Spring on a small lot does not arrive as a season. It arrives as a narrow opening you either walk through or watch close. Here is…
The Months When Nothing Grows Are the Ones That Matter
I used to think the quiet stretch of the year was wasted time. Then I noticed that every good season I have had traced back to…
Winter Here Is Mostly About the Pipes
A split hose bib on a January morning taught me what winter on a small suburban lot is actually for. Not growing. Maintenance, repair, and paying…
Getting Started
All 6 in Getting Started
One Thing Was Enough to Start With
A friend sat at my kitchen table with a printed list of thirty things she thought she had to learn first. I…
The August I Nearly Stopped
After two weeks away for a family emergency I came home to a yard that had gone feral in the heat, and…
The Argument We Had About the Back Lawn
My husband did not want the yard turned into a project, and he said so in the driveway on a Sunday in…
Tabatha Redmond
Our Little Homestead Life is written by Tabatha Redmond. Everything here comes from actual use, written up honestly, including the things that did not work.
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