Potatoes are probably the most common vegetable eaten in North America. So if your family is like most, you eat your fair share of potatoes. Some stats say the average person eats more than 30 pounds of potatoes each year. Potatoes get expensive in the grocery stores. As the weather cools down and winter comes around, the price of potatoes keeps going up. If your family eats a lot of … [Read more...]
The Veggie Garden and Berry Beds…and More Rhubarb
Here's our Garden - it's been nice and hot the last few days which is sorely needed. On the left going from closest to farthest: cabbage, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Radish, Lettuce, Peas, more Peas, broccoli Spinach, Chard, Beets, Turnip, more Lettuce. On the right going from closest to farthest: Onions, Carrots, Green Beans, Potatoes The cool weather crops are doing great. Lettuce and … [Read more...]
How To Get Started on the Path to Providing for Your Family
Have you been used to buying your groceries at the supermarkets? Never raised animals or had a garden? Are you trying to figure out how to get started on the path to providing for your family? Have you thought about starting a homestead? It can certainly feel overwhelming just to get started. So think about getting started, but doing it on a small … [Read more...]
The High Cost of Potatoes
We have used up the last good potatoes that we stored in the Cold Room from the 2010 harvest. We do still have some down there, but they have all sprouted now and so we will use the excess for more garden planting. Eating our own home grown potatoes from July of 2010 until almost the end of May 2011 is pretty good, I would think. Now however we are out and if we wanted to eat potatoes, I would … [Read more...]