Good morning, sweet friends! I don't know about you but these days I'm focused on doing one thing every day that helps my family weather the rising prices of gas, food, and so many other things. This year we decided that what we put into the garden will be full of solid nutrition and [...]
Setting up your rabbitry can be as easy or as involved as you want. It can be a simple set up with a few cages, or as involved as setting up an entire colony raising situation where all your rabbits share the same area, and then have bins set up as dens and birthing areas. [...]
If you missed our previous posts, you can find them right here. Our story of Raising Rabbits (Beginning) Reasons to Raise Rabbits on the Homestead (Series Post one) Today I want to chat with you about what WE have found to be the very best Meat rabbit breed combo, and why we chose it [...]
One of the most common questions we get as 'Burbsteaders with a rabbitry is: "WHY would you want to raise rabbits for meat?" ...often followed by something having to do with their cuteness, smallness, or cuddliness. So. as a start to our awesome kid-friendly series on raising rabbits as an integral part of your homesteading [...]
Ah Spring. I am SO excited for SPRING to come and join us here on the cold prairies of Minnesota, how about you? We have had a string of warm days this week, and we have spent as much time as possible out in them, soaking up the warmth, peeking at the garden, and [...]
Who says you need to go to a store to make some adorable, simple pumpkins for your Autumn Decor? Not me! *wink* Even more....if you comment below, then you get entered for your very own pumpkin stack that you choose of the ones shown! One person will get a fun surprise AUTUMN package from me! [...]
One of the things about living in a 120 year old house...you learn that it takes a good amount of time and energy to upkeep. Finding an effective, simple, and gently recipe to take care of the gorgeous wood around this house has taken time...and some experimenting. However, I love having a cleaner that not [...]
When I moved here to the MN prairies 12 years ago I thought it was so so strange that no one fenced their yard in. Coming from a place where everyone has fences, it seemed too open, too intrusive, not clear where the boundaries were. I fought against it. I begged my husband for a [...]
Ok Welcoming House readers, brace yourself. I am going go tell you exactly what might happen if you decide you are going to marry a man, or woman, with a homesteading heart. Now, to be fair, you might look at the two of us and wonder which one of us had more dreams to run [...]
Its the very first day of a beautiful new year, and I love it. Feels like when you open a fresh clean notebook for the first time, and stare at the lovely crisp pages just waiting to be filled with memories like a journal...or notes from conferences you attended. I love how fresh and clean [...]
