When you live on a homestead and have a full schedule to run, especially a seasonal schedule or one where there are animals involved, time management is one of your best friends. It is especially important if you are still working full-time offsite, or even now due to covid, working from home where you may have meetings or other appointments scheduled throughout the day. To learn about my top 3 time management tips and my current homesteading schedule, read on!
Horsemanship: the fear you should listen to and the fear you shouldn’t
Full disclosure, that heading/quote was totally stolen from Warwick Schiller. And for good reason. I’ve outlined a few times in my stories on my horsemanship journey that I’m kinda doing it on my own. Along the way, people who knew well in advance and people who emphatically offered to help decided last minute they didn’t want to anymore. Regardless of why, I’ve been navigating horsemanship and my own fear and anxiety surrounding my experience collaboratively. This post tells the story.
It’s nearly spring! Gardening and burning off
A warmer Sunday as SEQ starts moving out of Winter and into Spring. Preparing for the incoming wet season and La Nina, getting spring seedlings started and burning off the last big piles.
Clearing and creating new paddocks – dealing with ground asparagus weeds and paperbarks
In today’s post, we had the earth mover out to clear the back paddocks so we can finish our internal fencing, and the issues we’ve had dealing with ground asparagus weeds.
Removing the old cubby and extending the garden
We’ve used this time in lockdown to remove a cubby house that’s been on the property since we first bought it! We’re doing a garden renovation and extending the garden, making a flower and companion planting bed and re-framing the sides of the garden to give more protection! Read on for more…
25 practical tips to living frugally
Regardless of the motive, living frugally isn’t a bad idea, particularly in times that are uncertain. If living frugally is something you are interested in, check out these 25 practical tips that are simple enough to follow and implement regardless of your lifestyle. It’s not as hard as it seems to live a budget-friendly lifestyle.
Introversion, stay-at-home orders and homesteading – where a natural nexus aligns
When you live on a homestead, you already choose to subscribe to lifestyle ideologies that are sometimes outside the norm. We choose to live further away from supermarkets and stores, we choose to live on properties not connected to town water or sewerage, we choose to manage and build stockpiles of groceries, we choose to have distance between us and the community, we choose a lot of things that may seem as if they’re on the fringe, but they’re not really. And its moments like these where things like community lockdowns and stay-at-home orders do not impact us negatively.
The not so rosy parts of homesteading
if you’re going to have success as a homesteader, especially if you’re one of those people who runs a pros and cons list all the time, then we need to talk about these dirty little secrets so there is no misconception about what you’re getting into…read on for the not so rosy on homesteading.
How to season cast iron pans
Cooking with cast iron has a certain rustic feel to it. It isn’t just about the method of cooking, but the meals often cooked in them will be hearty, bush camp stews, no knead breads, grilled meats, bacon and eggs, or even cornbread and damper. Read on…
Homesteading as artistic expression and lifestyle philosophy
Ever since I’ve been a homesteader, I’ve had conversations with friends and family about why I did what I did. Why we moved out into the bush, why we live on a farmlet, why we have chickens when we can buy eggs from the supermarket, why we’re not connected to town water or sewerage, why we have water tanks, how do we gather water, why, oh why, oh why….why do we live the way we live?