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Baby Chicks!!! Getting Started Step by Step with Pictures

Baby chicks are so cute!!!  It is really hard to get any work done because all we want to do is crowd around the brooder and watch them! This is Lilly.  I read somewhere not to name your chickens or get attached to them.  Too late.  We love these little birds so much.  Lilly is…

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I'm Rebecca. I created this blog for those who love living on, or dream of living on, a little piece of land. Some posts are meant to inspire you to try something new, others are just for fun. Always, I welcome you to explore our little farm and get a glimpse of the rural life we love.

Strawberry Harvest Time!

Yum!!!  We have really enjoyed gathering fresh strawberries every morning!  I am looking forward to the strawberry patch spreading out more each year and providing us with enough berries to freeze or make jam! The last step we took to grow our strawberries was to add red rocks!  The red rocks fool the birds into…

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Broccoli Harvest Time!

A few of our broccoli heads did start to bolt, but the majority of them stayed nice and compact.  I wish I would have had time to take them to the farmers market!  I do have plenty for my family, friends at church, and neighbors.  Broccoli stores really well in the fridge also, which is…

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Organically Controlling Insects on the Broccoli

I’m happy to report that all but one of the broccoli plants recovered nicely from the cold temps we had in May (23 deg. for 2 nights in a row!!!).  This one is starting to form a broccoli head in the center! Remember when I said that broccoli are “cold weather plants”?  If the weather…

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How we Grow Stawberries, Part 2

It is early June now and the strawberry blossoms are sooooo beautiful!  This picture shows a blossom on the right and a baby strawberry on the left.  See how the strawberry grows from the center of the flower? For now, we are making sure the strawberry plants don’t dry out or get crowded out by weeds.  If you have…

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How we Grow Strawberries, Part 1

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I love strawberries!  When we lived in MN, we had the most amazing strawberry patch ever.  On our farm here in SD I tried to duplicate it, but I lost the battle to the prairie sod.  Have you ever seen prairie sod?  It’s no wonder they made houses of it in the old days. So last…

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I’m Rebecca. I created this blog for those who love living on, or dream of living on, a little piece of land. Some posts are meant to inspire you to try something new,  others are just for fun.  Always, I welcome you to explore our little farm and get a glimpse of the rural life we love.

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