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I’m Beth, lucky wife, mother to 5 little ones, Army Veteran, garden lover, homesteader and part-time chicken wrangler. Striving to live in a healthy and sustainable way on this journey through motherhood ♡♡♡ Read More…

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Happy Sunday!!⠀
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I think I love Sundays the most. I get the most stuff done that I actually want to do and it still the weekend so its still chill mode too⠀
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Name a favorite Sunday activity!⠀
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The number one reason to grow leeks... ⠀
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when it’s November and everything in the garden is dead, you can still find leeks and make a big batch of Irish leek and potato soup. Happy dance⠀
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Who else is a leek grower? How do you use them? ⠀
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It has been a while since I did an intro post and I want to say high to all those new faces!⠀
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Hi, my name is Beth, Homeschooling mom to 5 free-range kids (12,9,7,4 & 2). I have a background in the military and fitness. I love tea, soup and trying to growing oddball plants like turmeric, lemon trees or giant radishes in my zone 6 climate. I am ever chasing the skill of the perfectly crafted loaf of sourdough bread (still a work in progress)🤗. I always talk to my chickens, and I am pretty sure they answer back.⠀
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Now we are introduced we can be friends! Let's hear about you...⠀
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We are in full fall season here! The gardens have all died back, the goats are in full rut, and I am finding excuses to make soup for dinner every night!⠀
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We are heavy in homegrown organic pumpkin right now! Thank goodness it's so amazing to eat.⠀
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Pumpkin pies, crisps, cookies, cinnamon rolls, smoothies, even soup. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.... You name it.⠀
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What's your favorite way to eat pumpkin?⠀
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one of my favorite quotes came from the e-motion movie...⠀
"People have given their health to the doctor, their money to the banker, their soul to the preacher, their children to the school system, and in doing so... have lost the power to control their lives".⠀
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To me that is powerful⠀
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For us it's not some doctor's job to give us the right Rx to make us healthy, that's my job to do the work and the research and make educated decisions.⠀
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It's not some banker's job to look after our financial wellbeing, that's on us.⠀
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It's not the job of some preacher, church, religious doctrine or belief system to tell me how to manage my soul, that's a job I was born for.⠀
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And it most certainly not a school systems job to raise, educate, or to train the character of my kids as they walk through this world, that very important task is on us.⠀
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I don't think we people are powerless. I think we willingly hand over our power, our decisions, our beliefs, our fears, our hopes, our future to someone who might be more "specialized". We people are powerful if we will decide to be!⠀
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one of the out-of-the-box learning things we are doing this year, we have taken to night schooling and learning about things in the night sky. Constellations, phases of the moon, planet study, mapping the night sky, etc. Basically anything we can find to see draw and study in the night sky! We don't do it every night, and it makes for late night. A bonfire and some learning about what we see makes for a perfect outside of the norm homeschool lesson!⠀
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This might just be the oddest thing I have fermented this year but fermented sunchokes!⠀
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I am pretty sold out on these cool little plants, Next year they might go find a forever home in the forest garden.⠀
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I am such a garden nerd. I totally geeked out when I found this turmeric growing in the greenhouse. ⠀
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I have a habit of buying food items more with the idea of planting stuff more than using it all for food. What can I say finding turmeric in produce is a heck of a lot easier than finding it in a gardening department. So I bought turmeric hoping it would do well in the greenhouse after like a month or 6 weeks I saw nothing, so I gave up. I was doing a bit of end of the season greenhouse clean up, and found the sole surviving turmeric! So I did the happy dance transplanted it in a pot to go inside!⠀
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I can't be the only one, who else is guilty of buying food when the real plan is to plant it?⠀
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It's funny as a little girl I grew up in a small city and always had this dream to have a donkey one day. Why a donkey and not a pony? I am not sure I guess because I am the kind of person who looks at life a little differently. As I look back I am so glad I have that different perspective, the "odd-ball point of view" I guess you could say. I could have (and did spend some of) my life trying to be like everybody else, chasing dreams that are not my own. But at the end of the day, those things that make us happy and feel truly fulfilled are those things that are in line with our soul purpose, not that of the neighbor or a family expectation. ⠀
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Just dug these up out of the garden, first-year growing them.⠀
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Tell me if you know what they are?⠀
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With changing seasons it seems we always have changing tasks and to-dos. In the last few days, these boys both had a birthday, the weather has turned cooler, the garden is all but harvested and our attention turns to other homesteading tasks like greenhouse work, cleaning up the garden, planting some herbs for the kitchen garden, breeding the goats to name a few.⠀
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What are the changing seasons bringing you?⠀
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