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The Late Blooming Orchid

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It’s been four years since this orchid last bloomed… While it’s been dormant, it’s been watered and kept alive in hopes it would bloom once again.  An orchid’s dormancy can last up to nine months (under the right conditions), but in order for it to re-bloom, it requires a specific combination of fertilization, air flow, … Read more

What to Do In Homestead Living: Our Journey

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A homesteading lifestyle can involve a lot of different things, but when you’re first getting started some tasks are easier than others. With our resources and capabilities, we tackled planting a vegetable garden, raising laying hens and pigs, harvesting wood, and composting. Here’s how we tackled these things and how you can get started with them too.