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Great posts
Lots of neat ideas
Pretty pictures
Very nice little home on the web
Go by and let her know you enjoy her blog
Congratulations to this weeks Featured Blogger Haflinger at the C Farm!
...Welcome folks..A little about our farm I have a great partner in crime (Ray) we have over 160 acres to play with. . We have six guinea hen we have two goats Mike and Blarney they are Allpines. We have added a bunny name cocoa and have greeter dog (dew) and a cat (puppy) nothing gets by them. Come and enjoy recipes and crafts hear about sawing lumber and gardening.. Thanks for stopping by...
I remember when I first made my way over to Homesteadblogger, she helped me get started. :)
Go by and congratulate her for being this weeks Featured Blogger! :)
So I have started browsing through blogs and decided that each weeks featured blogger will be a choice of mine unless someone is nominated. :)
As I was browsing I ran across a blog that I had not visited in some time.
Mrs. P says about her blog...
I am a Christian mom homeschooling my 3 children while enjoying our life in the country. I enjoy reading, sewing, smocking, canning, making soap, cheese, and bread and just about any other homesteading craft.
Her most recent post was about canning chicken breast. I don't have a pressure canner,but this post makes me wish I did!
Drop by and visit Mrs. P and take a few minutes to enjoy her delightful blog.
And remember if you have anyone you would like to nominate for our Featured Blogger section, please email me at
senioreditor@homesteadblogger.com
We are a Christian family of 7 living on a 3/4's of an acre homestead in Canada.
I think I was born with a homesteaders heart. I have always been drawn to the outdoors. From a young age I began to teach myself about gardening and canning. Not long after I discovered Countryside magazine. That opened up a new world for me! Suddenly I had discovered a world of people who like myself, would rather work in the garden then walk the mall!
My husband and I have lived in many different places. From old farmsteads with out electricity to apartments and now again a small town property. I can honestly say that homesteading is a mindset. No matter where you are you can be a homesteader. When we lived in an apartment our home was filled with plants inside and out. What we couldn't grow we bought at local produce stands. I kept canning and really started to learn more about baking. I loved making our own breads and really found joy in cooking from scratch there.
I have always loved to help people learn to garden and can. When I first learned about blogging I was immediately drawn to it. The blog world has it's own special character to it. I felt again much like when I discovered Countryside magazine for the first time. A group of similar minded people to share with and learn from.
I've made a lot of wonderful friends here and learned so much. I'd like to say thank you to everyone, who takes the time to share their current homestead happenings and how to posts!
Stop by and see Kim and congratulate her for being this weeks featured blogger.
Also, remember if there is anyone you know that you would like to have featured on the weekly featured blogger, please email me at senioreditor@homesteadblogger.com
Featured Blogger of the Week MommaofMany at A Distinctly Different Homestead MommaofMany says,
Thanks for visiting my little city-homestead's recipe box. I find and collect recipes from far and wide and love trying new ones! I am adding all of my favorite recipes here, one by one, to share with friends far and wide. I try to add a recipe every day or so, so visit often! Since I cook for my family of ten, you may need to adjust the recipe size!
I have visited MommaofMany's blog often, always finding very interesting and delicious recipes. It is truly a great find. Stop by and congratulate her for being this weeks Featured Blogger and enjoy her enormous collection of recipes she has to share.
If you have a blogger you would like to nominate for a future Featured Blogger, please let me know. You can email me at senioreditor@homesteadblogger.com
A note from the Pure Water Hollow Homestead family...
The whole idea of “homesteading” really began resonating with me after the Y2K hype and the 9-11-01 attacks. These instances led me and my wife to re-evaluate our personal situation and we began looking for ways we could become more self-sufficient.
We had years earlier taken up the reigns of the spiritual and educational well-being of our family by homeschooling, having family worship time, and throwing out the TV, but we began to realize that we were still very dependent on the world’s system for many of our physical needs. It was a slow process to move away from my “city boy” mind-set toward an old fashioned, self-reliant country type of thinking. With the Lord’s help and guidance, that is exactly what happened!
One cool thing is that I found Homestead Blogger during the early stages of our move toward this more independent type of living, and I started blogging about our experiences. We had already achieved much when I started writing about our homestead in September of 2006, but I had no idea back then the types of blessings we were to find as we continued “homesteading”! It has been a truly awesome, blessed ride for my family these past 2 ½ years!
I use the blog really as a scrapbook of memories for me and my family, but I love it when I learn that others enjoy hearing about our adventures. It is already amazing to me to look back at my earlier posts to observe where we’ve come from and how much we have learned. God has been so good to us, and I feel that the adventure is still just beginning!
I am thankful to the Homestead Blogger community for making this venue possible. I have learned much and gotten many great ideas from reading other’s life stories. Often I don’t have the time I would like to devote to my blog and reading others, but I am always grateful when I take the time.
If you take time to read any of my entries, I hope you will be blessed as well.
I remember coming to Homesteadblogger for the first time. Pure Water was one of the first ones to welcome me and I immediately was interested in his VERY informative blog. I appreciate all the time he takes to share with us the real concepts of homesteading.
I hope you will take a walk over to his blog and enjoy the wealth of information he has to offer. Pure Water Hollow Homestead
If you have anyone you would like to see featured in our featured blogger section... please let me know. You can email me at
senioreditor@homesteadblogger.com
Blessings,
Chasity L. Burrell
Senior Editor Homesteadblogger Heritage Acres Farm
Here is what Shan says about herself...
I started my blog, Honey Hill Farm, just a little over a year ago. My hope was to connect with other like-minded ladies who loved the gentle art of homekeeping. It has always been such a blessing to me to be able to attend to my family and my little home here in the foothills of the Colorado mountains. It wasn't until I found blogging (I had never read a blog until the summer of 2007) that I realized that I wasn't alone in my desire to be at home...and that homekeeping could be a ministry, not only to my family, but to friends both near and far. I have been delighted to "meet" so many dear souls and have been inspired and humbled by reading their endearing blogs. I do so enjoy the hospitality that I can extend to the far corners of the world, inviting each Reader to be my guest.
I hope that everyone who visits Honey Hill Farm will feel that they too, can find the beauty of living a gentle life.
Yours so kindredly,
Shan
You can visit Honey Hill Farm and enjoy all the beautiful pictures Shan shares with us. Her lovely home and tender words.
Go by and visit and congratulate her for being this weeks, Featured Blogger!
If you have a blogger you would like to nominate for a future featured blogger email me at senioreditor@homesteadblogger.com
“I’m Rachel from New Zealand, the two little islands down under. I am married to Robin and we have 4 children. We live on 10 acres just outside a little city in our South Island. My husband was raised on a farm, but I wasn’t, and living on the land is a huge learning curve for me as I change from city girl to country girl (I’m 37 years old, but I still think of myself as a girl) :o). We have two dogs and added 6 laying hens last year. This year I hope to learn about beekeeping and soapmaking. Our big longterm project is our cultivation of a truffiere. We are growing truffles. The real, genuine fungi! We have a small plantation of oak trees which have been infected with the truffle virus. It is long-term as it takes anywhere from 5-12 years for the first truffle to grow, and even then it is a bit of a gamble that they will appear at all!
We are a Christian family and we homeschool our children and have done so for 5 years now. Homeschooling is relatively new to New Zealand, but gaining in popularity. 15 years ago it was only for radicals and those who lived alternative lifestyles or in remote locations, but more and more people are choosing homeschooling now …. And guess what! Our government pays us to homeschool! (though it’s not much). We get a small financial grant each year which helps towards curriculum costs, as much of our curriculum comes from the USA.
I grew up in a small town and when I left school I served on the mission field for the next 10 years. I started out at the grass roots of missions in the jungles of South East Asia and in the cities, I have worked at a Christian radio station as a copywriter for some time, and then ended up in an administration role in the USA working with a Christian leader. When I returned to NZ I met my husband and was married in 1997. After roaming the globe and experiencing many exciting and thrilling events (sometimes hair-raising) and daily miracles, it was initially hard for me to settle down and be content in one place and with raising children and homeschooling, but I have learned many things about myself through the last 11 years since marriage and children came along. God is teaching me to be content and happy in my little place here at home. I see it as my little mission field with the four little souls God has entrusted to me. Home is now my preferred choice of destination, and I am enjoying rediscovering the arts of domesticity that my grandmothers were such experts at. Home-preserving, living within a budget, menu-planning, economical ways of cleaning and organization, knitting and sewing and other crafts, animal husbandry and making our house a beautiful haven and restful place for my husband and children.
When I was little I always wanted to be a writer – I would write for leisure all the time. In 2007 I had my first children’s book published – a little story based in New Zealand that has done quite well here. Since our children came along I have not had much time or opportunity to indulge this need to write, so when I discovered the world of blogging, I thought it would be a good opportunity to keep my ‘hand in,’ and keep a type of journal of our lives while the children are growing up. I am so glad I discovered homesteadblogger. I am one of the few non-Americans who blog here, and I have enjoyed meeting such lovely people here who are so helpful and supportive and friendly. It really is a lovely community on the internet.”
Congratulations to this weeks featured blogger! Candy Foote
Here is what Candy has to say about herself and family:
My two loves are God and family. My life revolves around the two. My husband and I have been together since we were teenagers. He was the boy next door, and I was the boss’s daughter. Today, we have twelve children. Our oldest is 24 and our youngest will be 17 months on the 5th of April. We have homeschooled for the past 16 years. Three of our children have graduated. With a one year old, it looks like we will be homeschooling for sometime. I love homesteading. We just recently moved into a new house that sits on only one acre of land. This is quite a change for us. We lived in a house that was a hundred years old. It actually belonged to my great grandparents. The kids had 100 acres to run on. They spent hours all year round at our little pond. We raised chickens, pigs, goats, horses, and calves. I cooked on my mother’s old wood cook stove. We raised a huge garden every year. We had a lot of blackberry and raspberry bushes. We were just starting to raise apple trees when we moved. We exclusively burned wood. We didn’t have running water, unless the kids felt like running. Our baths were taken in an old claw-foot bathtub. We lived off-grid for 2 ½ years. We ran our home on solar power and a generator. We did our laundry on an old wringer washing machine. After living there for 13½ years, we moved into the house that belonged to my mother-in-law. My father lives directly across the road in the house I grew up in. My husband and I have come full circle. This house has all of the modern conveniences: electricity, flushing toilet, oil heat, etc. **smile** I actually didn’t think I would like the change when we moved here in December, but I’m loving it. I enjoy being close to my dad. I have more time to focus on homeschooling and ministry now that we aren’t spending so much time on survival. Our new life includes starting a new family home-based business. We are enjoying life, God, and our children. We are excited to be grandparents now! I hope you have enjoyed this glimpse into my life. I guess I should stop writing now. God has been so good to me that I could go on and on and on and…..
Mommy of Two Little Blessings has been blogging here at Homesteadblogger since February 2009. She was nominated to me right off to be one of our Featured Bloggers.
I asked her to share a little about herself with us and here it is:
Let's see, I am first and foremost a child of God and am quite thankful for His ever watchful care and guidance of me. I came to know the Lord as a little girl and have been richly blessed since then. I have been married to my fabulious husband for almost ten years now. We love the Lord first and He has blessed us with a bridge of communication through every change and move we have gone through. We have two wonderful children. A boy who will turn four this year and a girl who just turned two. Right now we are quite busy being parents as well as first time home owners. We live on 3/4 of an achre just outside a small town that is a short drive to a larger city. We have one dog and one cat and have hopes of trying our hand at different farm animals even though we were both brought up in the city/town living. We have had planter gardens and even a large garden at one point, but have yet to plant one now with our first home and two little "helpers". *smile* Why I blog might be nice to know...since we have become parents we started life in this new area and it is quite hard to make new friends as a mommy of little ones. I blog to share with others what I am learning on this path I call my life and to gain encouragement from others. This rhelm, HomeStead Bloger is right up my alley. Most of the people I have met here are God fearing people and anjoy uplifting and encouraging one another. As a child of God, wife, and Mommy of two little blessings, encouragment is much needed and here, more than anywhere else I have been in the past four yeas, I receive it the most. The ladies I have met here are not only human but humble and are great to share what they are going through as well as making the time to encourage me right where I am. It is GREAT. I hope to continue to encourage and be encouraged in this way I call my online journal. *smile* Thank you for this opportunity to be a featured blogger here. May God's blessings shine brightly for you today as you go about "your" business. *smile* Blessings.-me-(Mommy of two little blessings)
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MommaofMany says, 
Shan at Honey Hill Farm
Mommy of Two Little Blessings
