• About
    • About Us
    • Contact
    • Disclosure
  • The Kitchen
    • Recipe Box
    • Food Preservation
  • The Great Outdoors
    • The Garden
    • Foraging & Gathering
  • Barnyard
    • Ducks & Ducklings
    • Chickens and Baby Chicks
    • Honeybees, Honey & Beeswax
  • Home & Health
    • Homesteading
    • Health on the Homestead
    • Frugality
  • Local Resources
    • Rare and Uncommon Edibles for the Home Garden

Whole-Fed Homestead

Living Close to the Land & Thriving on Real Food

You are here: Home / Archives for monthly update

Homestead Quarterly – Fall 2017: Harvest All the Things!

December 15, 2017 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 6 Comments

Our Best Harvest Season Yet! It finally feels a little bit like we’ve arrived. For four years we’ve worked hard shaping our homestead into what we imagined- building orchards and gardens, planting trees, installing mushroom logs… it has been a lot of work with little reward so far, until this year. Things are finally starting […]

Filed Under: Homestead, Monthly Update Tagged With: garden, homesteading, monthly update

Homestead Monthly: July & August {harvesting, preserving, and loss}

September 5, 2017 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 2 Comments

Onion & Garlic Breath In July we harvested nearly 200 bulbs of big beautiful garlic, and in August we harvested over 100 gorgeous onions- a first for both! Our first year growing garlic was a huge success- we grew 29 different varieties… and now we’re tasked with sampling them all and trying to whittle our […]

Filed Under: Homestead, Monthly Update Tagged With: homesteading, monthly update

Homestead Monthly: May & June {sow, weed, nurture, and reap}

July 6, 2017 by crystal@wholefedhomestead Leave a Comment

Oh, hi. Yes, we’re still here. Here’s what’s been happening on the homestead! Planting and More Planting Putting things into the earth and watching them grow has been our whole life for the past two months. And weeding.. Oh the weeding! After having our old barn buried and the ground smoothed and leveled, we found ourselves […]

Filed Under: Homestead, Monthly Update Tagged With: garden, growing mushrooms, homesteading, monthly update, orchard

Homestead Monthly: April {orcharding, raised beds, and fungus}

May 5, 2017 by crystal@wholefedhomestead Leave a Comment

Every time I write one of these monthly update posts, I think to myself: “a whole month has passed already?!” Every single time. I can’t even believe spring is here and half over already. It’s been a busy one! An Apple a Day We’re turning into pretty serious (crazy?) apple growers- we have 26 different […]

Filed Under: Homestead Tagged With: garden, growing mushrooms, homesteading, monthly update, orchard

Homestead Monthly: December + January {natural beauty, fame, and fresh eggs}

January 31, 2017 by crystal@wholefedhomestead Leave a Comment

Overall we had a lovely start to the winter season with unseasonably warm temperatures, which means the chickens got to free range for a while longer, and we were harvesting kale, chard, parsley and celery from the garden for a record amount of time! The holidays were filled with family and good food, and we […]

Filed Under: Homestead, Monthly Update Tagged With: chickens, garden, monthly update

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 […]

Filed Under: Homestead, Monthly Update Tagged With: ducks, garden, history, homesteading, monthly update

Homestead Monthly: October 2016 {shiitakes, rare apples, and an unfortunate honey harvest}

November 1, 2016 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 2 Comments

Welcome to the homestead monthly, a collection of all the major events that happen on our homestead every month! Unfortunate Surprise Honey Harvest You may remember that I reported (just last month!) our meager honey harvest, and that all three of our colonies were full of plenty of honey and looking great going into winter. Well boy was I […]

Filed Under: Homestead, Monthly Update Tagged With: chickens, garden, homesteading, honeybees, monthly update

Homestead Monthly: September 2016 {purple veggies, mushroom hunting, and canning}

October 4, 2016 by crystal@wholefedhomestead Leave a Comment

Hi friends! This is where we take a look back at all that we’ve accomplished during the month, and reflect on the real-life ups and downs that come with “living close to the land.” We’re on the downhill slide towards winter and are busy wrapping up summer projects on the homestead. Here’s what happened in September: […]

Filed Under: Homestead, Monthly Update Tagged With: chickens, foraging, garden, monthly update, preserving

Homestead Monthly: August 2016 {heirloom veggies, abandoned chicks, and monarchs}

September 5, 2016 by crystal@wholefedhomestead 1 Comment

Tomato Dreamin’ You know what’s silly? Planting 60 tomato plants for 2 people. You may remember that last year we were completely blind-sided and devastated by tomato blight. Forty tomato plants and one pint of tomatoes harvested… it was a terrible sight. This year we were determined to beat the blight, so we tilled up […]

Filed Under: Homestead, Monthly Update Tagged With: chickens, garden, homesteading, monthly update

Homestead Monthly: July 2016 {weasel trouble, chicks, and the great harvest begins}

August 5, 2016 by crystal@wholefedhomestead Leave a Comment

You Dirty Weasel We started out the month with sadness and heartbreak, unfortunately. If you’ve farmed for long enough, or experienced the loss of an animal to predators, then you know the feeling. The “something isn’t right here” feeling. For us, it was when Karl went out in the morning to let the chickens and […]

Filed Under: Homestead, Monthly Update Tagged With: barnyard, chickens, ducks, garden, homesteading, honeybees, monthly update

Next Page »

Follow the Adventure!

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
Wholefed Homestead Glad Youre Here Sidebar Header 2 karl and crystal 6 Welcome to Our Homestead!
Wholefed Homestead Newsletter Sidebar Header

Wholefed Homestead What Were Reading Sidebar Header
Ad
Wholefed Homestead Pin with Us Sidebar Wholefed Homestead Pinterest Sidebar
Wholefed Homestead Sidebar Instagram Header
🥔🎉 I haven’t finalized this year’s potat 🥔🎉 I haven’t finalized this year’s potato list quite yet. If you have an absolute favorite variety, I’d love to hear it! Here’s what I have so far:
.
German Butterball: this is our favorite potato! A must-grow for sure. It’s an all-purpose variety, and it’s a gorgeous grass-fed butter yellow inside.
.
Papa Cacho: the most amazing red fingerlings, digging these looks like pulling red bananas out of the dirt because they’re nearly a foot long! They are so fun!! Delicious too and gorgeous rosy color inside (pictured above).
.
Upstate Abundance: this is a new variety for me from Row 7, who specialize in good-tasting varieties. It’s also supposed to be high-yielding and fairly disease-resistant.
.
Norkotah & Burbank Russets: we’ve been growing both of these for years. I was hoping a winner would emerge and I’d just grow one of these types, but so far that hasn’t happened so I keep planting them both! They are good but I’d love a russet type that blows me away.
.
What say you- what are your must-grow potatoes?!
.
#potatoesarelife #homemade #homegrown #fromscratch #spuds #homesteaders #homesteading #homesteadlife #organicgarden
Thanks for all your enthusiasm yesterday for the k Thanks for all your enthusiasm yesterday for the kick-off of the grow along, and thanks for following along!
.
We put together this little video, and I’m really lucky to call these fun, creative, and kind gardeners my friends!
.
In Order of Appearance:
@barbebeaty -5b
@honeyblumfarms -7a
@bailey_vantassel -10b
@azurefarm -7b
@dawncosgrove -3
@smarterbynature -8b
@dolledupandmuddy -6b
@hostilevalleyliving -5a
@wildoakfarms -6b
@ajwildwayfarm -5b
@mountainwoodsfarm -5b
@shesrootedhome -8b
@soulgardener74 -9b
@wholefedhomestead -4
@fowlcreekfarm -6a
@tanglewoodhollow -5b
@mybackyardtxgarden -8b
@axeandroothomestead -7
.
#homegrown #fromscratch #homesteaders #homesteading #homesteadlife #organicgarden #zone4 #gardening
🧅🎉 I “winter-sowed” some more onion seed 🧅🎉 I “winter-sowed” some more onion seeds today (and showed the whole *very easy* process in my stories!). This is a fantastic technique if you don’t have a grow light set up or don’t want to babysit any seedlings! Mother Nature does most of the work.
.
On that note, today is the start of The Great Grow Along!! A whole bunch of us gardeners are getting together to share real-time updates from our gardens every week on Wednesdays —> find us all here @thegreatgrowalong and thanks to our sponsors, @tractorsupply and @gurneysseed.
.
#gardening #organicgarden #homegrown #wintersowing #homesteaders #homesteading #homesteadlife #wintergardening
Load More...
This error message is only visible to WordPress admins

Error: The account for needs to be reconnected.
Due to recent Instagram platform changes this Instagram account needs to be reconnected in order to continue updating. Reconnect on plugin Settings page

Wholefed Homestead Behind the Homestead Sidebar Header Karl Crystal 1
Wholefed Homestead Preserving Sidebar
Wholefed Homestead in the Garden Sidebar 2
Wholefed Homestead Keeping Chickens Sidebar
Wholefed Homestead Honey Bees 2Sidebar
Wholefed Homestead Recipe box sidebar

Tags

barnyard beverage breakfast canning chickens chick starter feed Christmas craft or project dinner ducks eggs farmhouse kitchen foraging freezing fresh herbs frugality garden growing mushrooms handmade gift health history holidays homestead Homestead Blog Hop homesteading honeybees informative kale made with honey main dish maple syruping monthly update orchard preserving ramblings raw honey recipe review side dish skincare snack starting seeds treat turkeys using preserved goods

Featured

Preserving Tools & Supplies to Stock Up On Now

Strawberry “SUN” Jam – The BEST Jam Ever! No Pectin, No Canning, Lower Sugar

Veggie-Loaded Homemade Marinara Sauce (Large Batch for Freezing)

Copyright © 2021 · Lifestyle Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in