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Successful weekend project 🐔🐓 Our new chicke

Successful weekend project 🐔🐓 Our new chicken coop is complete! We were able to transform a kit shed from Lowe’s into a really nicely functioning coop for our expanding flock of layers! We reinforced the whole thing with 2x4s, built huge roosting bars and added nesting boxes from @tractorsupply - it’s basically chicken paradise.

We still need to do the outside enclosure but we are super pleased to have the coop done and the new layers moved out of the brooder.

A tutorial for this will be coming soon!

A quick getaway with my love and fresh mountain ai

A quick getaway with my love and fresh mountain air is good for the soul! We are having the best time on the slopes ⛷

Weekends are for farm chores! Straw was delivered

Weekends are for farm chores! Straw was delivered today for our pigs who will arrive in a month 🐖

Thankful that the weather warmed up a bit but still happily wearing my carhartts for the foreseeable future. Have a beautiful Sunday everyone!

Homesteader.... that’s a title I can get used to

Homesteader.... that’s a title I can get used to 😉💁🏼‍♀️👩🏼‍🌾

Hey @tractorsupply did you know your sawdust bags

Hey @tractorsupply did you know your sawdust bags make pretty excellent sleds? 🛷😂😂

With all this fresh snow, my husband and I turned into children and decided we had to go sledding. We don’t have a sled and our trash can lids were otherwise occupied so we got creative! The sawdust bag actually worked pretty dang good 😂😂😂 not to mention it makes for a funny story and an even funnier video!

Oh and our sledding hill? That’s the root cellar 😂😂 Winter fun-Homestead edition!

Sometimes I get asked why we do all this work to h

Sometimes I get asked why we do all this work to have a homestead... like hauling water to our animals in 12 inches of snow and below freezing temperatures. After all, we are both busy with full time jobs. Simply put, we homestead because we enjoy it and feel that this is the way of life we are best suited to. Ever since we got together (at the age of 15), my husband and I have joked we were born decades too late. We both have a deep call in our souls to a simpler and more old fashioned way of life. We love to be outside, in the open space of our own land. It makes us happy to be surrounded by our animals at all times. We enjoy producing our own food; then we can ensure that our meat is ethically, humanely and sustainably raised and that our plants are nutritious and safe from chemicals. We love to create and produce as much as we can and limit our dependence on the commercial market.

If you want to read more about why we homestead and how we balance the workload with our full time jobs, go read my newest blog post- link in bio!

This post is in collaboration with 11 other homestead bloggers- check them out for more fantastic info and homestead motivation!
@churchstreethomestead_
@brittanylgibson
@simplyjadfarms
@littleacre.farm
@livinglikewerecountry
@ahandsomehomestead
@the_mountain_farmhouse
@spruce.acres.homestead
@ourgabledhome
@oursimplyrootedfarmhouse
@thecrooksfamilyfarm

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