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How to Tear Down and Get Rid of an Old Barn, Plus How NOT to Sell the Wood!

October 18, 2017 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 29 Comments

We’ll call this one a “learning experience.” (I generally hate those, by the way) If you’re wondering how to sell the wood from an old barn, if your old barn wood is worth any money, and how to handle the process… I hope you can learn from our experience. That is to say, selling our […]

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Dabbling in Stewardship

May 21, 2017 by crystal@wholefedhomestead Leave a Comment

Living intentionally, appreciating the things around us, practicing good stewardship of the land, leaving the earth in a better place than we found it… all big words and lofty, lofty goals they are. I know I’ve always held an appreciation for the land- I grew up gardening with my parents, splashing in mud puddles, and climbing […]

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Homestead Monthly: November {barn demolition, butchering, and winter preparations}

December 4, 2016 by crystal@wholefedhomestead Leave a Comment

Bye Bye Barn So, one really big thing happened this month that has taken a lot of our time, energy, and brain space. We essentially “sold” our old 100+ year old big beautiful barn to a reclaimed wood furniture company. The back of this barn started to cave in during the last month, so we […]

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How to Get Started Collecting & Growing Rare Seeds

February 8, 2016 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 1 Comment

If you’ve only ever grown varieties like Big Boy tomatoes and Butternut squash… you’re in for a surprise, and a treat! As folks who take pleasure from sticking their hands in the dirt, who can’t wait to eat the first fresh green bean from the garden every summer, and who appreciate things like old mason […]

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Homestead Monthly: November 2015

December 6, 2015 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 2 Comments

For it being one of the colder months… we really accomplished quite a bit on the homestead! On the blog I made vegetable stock powder, shared my no-cut way to cook a whole squash, recapped the best books for homesteaders, and wrote about weird chicken behavior during the molt. Hornet Nests and Honey Bees Karl was […]

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The Homestead Monthly: August 2015

September 5, 2015 by crystal@wholefedhomestead Leave a Comment

Total Tomato Disappointment This past March (as I do every year) I excitedly picked out my tomato varieties for this year’s garden, in April I lovingly started them from seed and nurtured them for two months in house, and in June my little tomato plants were tucked into their permanent home in our new garden. They grew big […]

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The Homestead Monthly: December & January

February 2, 2015 by crystal@wholefedhomestead Leave a Comment

With the holidays, and also because it is winter here- it has been pretty low key. We’ve been day dreaming about sunshine, all the fun spring projects ahead, where we’ll put the big garden, and how many sheep we’ll get. Here’s what’s happened lately: Dealing with Death We had our first adult chicken death in December. […]

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Lard Bread & Boiled Flour: A Farm Story

May 2, 2014 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 11 Comments

A couple weekends ago we celebrated the spring season with Karl’s family. His Grandparents came over to the big city from their small farming town a couple hours away. As usual we had a meal and talked farming with Grandpa. No one can talk farming like an 85-year-old farmer! (That’s him, above in the picture.) Grandma and […]

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10 Reasons Why We Love Our Old Farmhouse

February 28, 2014 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 9 Comments

We moved into our old farmhouse just four short months ago, and from day one it has just felt right being here. It suits us so well. (It should- we searched for three years before finding this place!) Our house was built sometime in the 1880s, but the couple who lived here for the past […]

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Vintage 1962 Lettuce Seed

February 25, 2014 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 4 Comments

Buried underneath layers of homemade ice fishing lures in an old box, I rescued this treasure from Karl’s grandparent’s house. Grandpa chuckled at my enthusiasm for this vintage find and told me to take the seeds with me if I wanted. Yeah, I wanted. I know its only an old seed packet- and not even […]

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I’m not starting tomato seeds anytime too soon, I’m not starting tomato seeds anytime too soon, but I am thinking about it! Here are some varieties that are on my definitely-will-grow list for this coming season! These are standard must-grows for me, with the exception of the two new varieties I mention. I’ve been honing this list for many many years!
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🍅Juliet (mini-Roma, excels at everything)
🍅Chocolate Cherry (deep flavor, stunning color)
🍅Valentine (dark, meaty, rich for a cherry)
🍅Sunrise Bumblebee (she’s a looker)
🍅Russian Rose (gorgeous rosy red, delicious)
🍅Big Rainbow (multi-colored, good acidity)
🍅San Marzano (classic paste variety)
🍅Super Sauce (gigantic meaty paste)
🍅Pomodoro Squisito (new, elongated paste)
🍅Tegucigalpa (new, rare, tapered paste)
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There’s one more variety I’m excited about, it’s a chance seedling that popped up in our garden last year. We have a lot of rotten tomatoes on the ground every Fall, which means we have a lot of volunteer tomato plants every Summer. Most are tilled under, but this one survived hiding amongst the potatoes. It produced really cool tomatoes like I’ve never seen before!! I saved the seed and will plant them and see what we get!
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We’re fortunate to have some amazing greenhouses in the area, so I always pick up a handful of unique tomato plants-whatever catches my eye- from them every year too.
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We plant close to 30 tomato plants every year- they’re one of my very favorite things to grow! (Can you tell?!) 😜
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Feels like sunshine getting this gorgeous glowing Feels like sunshine getting this gorgeous glowing citrus delivered every month! What an amazing way to brighten the dull winter here!
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In partnership with @uscitrus, who ships the most delicious, juiciest, fresh citrus! That gorgeous smoky pink-orange one is a “Super Red” Grapefruit. It was spectacular- check out my stories today to see the inside, plus see the other citrus that came in my box this month!
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This citrus is grown on small farms in Texas, picked when it’s perfectly ripe, and shipped directly to you for a very reasonable price.
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I’m eating a grapefruit, orange, or tangerine nearly every day, and I’m making copious amounts of sparkling water with lemon and lime juice... what a wonderful way to get my daily vitamin C. I LOVE IT!
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Finished shelling the last of the “Cascade Ruby Finished shelling the last of the “Cascade Ruby Gold” flour corn today! I really enjoyed growing this one— it was a fast finisher, which I appreciate for our short growing season.
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The colors are wildly stunning! Each ear was one of four colors: yellow, light red, dark red, or orange. I’m not sure if planting a yellow seed kernel made a stalk with yellow ears, or if the genetics are such that it’s totally random and a yellow seed kernel can produce red or orange ears... but I’d love to know! Perhaps an experiment for next year if I grow it again.
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Now we just have to grind it and then it can be used as cornmeal for cooking and baking with. It’s supposed to have amazing flavor, so I’m looking forward to giving it a try!
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