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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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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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I guess that is the thing no one else can tell you what living your best life looks like, mine is a donkey and a whole mess of dirty kids, what's yours look like?⠀
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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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Growing sunflowers for the first time has been such a fun experience. Some of the seeds have gone to chickens and make a great sustainable supplement for feed and some get to be salted and roasted and eaten.⠀
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Name your favorite variety of sunflower to grow?⠀
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what's coming out of these gardens is really starting to dwindle now. By this time of the year, I am so grateful for the harvests but also looking forward to a break from the garden.⠀
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With gardening, glad to see it go or sad to see it go, which one are you?⠀
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This school year I thought we would try a new homeschool co-op, we haven't been part of one since moving out to the homestead life, let's try it out.⠀
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After only a few weeks it became clear that's not us anymore, we have changed so much. Without being too awful aware of it we went from being traditional homeschoolers to these nature studying, wildflower paint making, eclectic sort of unschoolers. We found that our version of science where we study the microbes that live the sourdough starter under a microscope more of a science experience that participating in the science fair or going over the scientific method yet again.⠀
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I am not sure exactly where or when it happened but we became "those" homeschoolers. These kids are more wild than civilized, wear shoes almost never, can name more plants than the average adult, have animal companions (mostly a 3-legged goat and a cat) that follow them everywhere, make art from nature items, and turn everything into a science experiment.⠀
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Celebrating who we are becoming 🙌🏼⠀
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canning work of the season piling up in the homestead pantry🤘⠀
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I look at it here and I think man this doesn't look like that much but man it is so much more than I did in the past. I tell myself it's about getting better, not comparing to where I dream of being (huge homestead pantry full of canned goods) but improving. Better/ more than last year.⠀
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Still so much more to get in here, the pumpkins are only starting to make it in here. and jellies and jams too!⠀
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Name a homestead goal you are proud of this season?!! 🙌🏼⠀
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We have now been to our first homeschool group get-togethers of the year and I noticed it has started. The runny noses, the coughs...⠀
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I guess that means its time to beef up the immunity around here. Got the fire cider brewing, the echinacea tinctures ready to go, the herbs, the oils for diffusing and last maybe still need to make the salve for chest rubs.⠀
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Mother nature makes for the best pharmacy!⠀
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We homeschool because I never want them to think learning is limited to what is in a book or found in a classroom. ⠀
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We homeschool because there is always more to learn. ⠀
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We homeschool because knowledge is power. ⠀
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We homeschool because finding what has been forgotten is fun. ⠀
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We homeschool because being put in a box isn't fun. ⠀
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We homeschool to learn free thinking. ⠀
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We homeschool to explore, experiment, discover and rediscover. ⠀
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We homeschool to learn to be true to ourselves before we are taught to cave to peer pressure. ⠀
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We homeschool so we can learn to value the person who works with their hands just as much as the person who works in a corner office.⠀
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We homeschool to teach that life is no hurry, so slow down.⠀
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We homeschool not to prepare them for tests but to prepare them for life.⠀
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When one has homegrown grapes one must make jelly. Delicious, savor every last bit jelly!⠀
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Fall is coming and the thought of losing the garden is just too much. So its time to start propagating some plants from cuttings from the garden⠀
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Anyone else have almost as many house plants as they have in the garden?⠀
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The ghost peppers are finally ripe!⠀ 😱⠀
I am actually quite afraid of these things! It was my 12-year-old son's idea to grow these this year. And I didn't think much about them, that was until peppers showed up. Now I am afraid to touch them, pick them, use them. Afraid the littles will get into the garden and try to eat them or find them in the house.⠀
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Does anyone have experience with ghost peppers? YouTube videos of people eating them aside realistically how bad are they? #gardenregrets #ishouldnthave⠀
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