We are hosting our first Charlotte event! Come hug a baby goat, build a fire, shoot an arrow and make some herbal medicine! Dr. Dave will offer a basic tincture making workshop and will demonstrate wild crafting. We will offer a milking demo at the beginning and end of the day and hold an open forum for discussion on basic goat care and considerations before you take one home. We are excited to meet the local homesteading...

I’ve been craving robust coffee this last week as the weather has cooled off and I haven’t been able to put my finger on it. But I think I’ve just figured it out. While touring my unedited photo albums from last year, I clicked on today’s date one year ago just to see what I was up to! This time last year Dave and I were touring the coffee plantations on the Big Island of Hawaai!! Well now that just makes SENSE. 🙂 Now...

It’s that time of year again, folks. Break out every seed in the house. This is the peak season for planting if you live in the desert. Over the next several weeks, you can sow nearly every variety of seed, excluding your summer melons and squashes of course. Plant your lettuces, corn, green leafy vegetables kales, chard, cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli. Plant your root vegetables… beets, kohlrabi, turnips, rutabaga, CARROTS. For...

Wish We Had Acres is scheduled for a grey water installation this fall! We couldn’t be more excited. After all, it only makes sense in the desert to be a bit water conscious. Since we tend to generate a good number of dirty dishes and/or dirty laundry on any given day, our homestead has decided that the dish water and laundry water oughtta grow us some worms and feed the trees. Join us Sunday, November 17th for a greywater installation...

It is not a day you look forward to. Particularly the first time. I am fortunate that my husband is clinical and that science aids in a clean, direct approach. By clean, I only mean the cut. There are still a mess of feathers in the yard that will take time to flutter away or return to the earth. We decided to use a simple implement and gravity. We saved everything. Nothing was wasted, thanks largely to Auryn, our big dog. Blood was cured and...