Losing Our Shirts, Keeping The Farm

I have some amazing news today.  We're getting a gorgeous Jersey heifer.  For FREE! How did such an incredible opportunity occur?  Wel...

Ever since we moved the chickens into the big old chicken house, they've been using makeshift crates as nest boxes to lay their eggs in....

The winner of today's Sheep's Milk Soap Balls Giveaway is: Andrea?  Or Morgan?  You didn't leave me a way to contact you dire...

Everyone did such a great job suggesting "X" lamb names for my flock last year, I'm asking for your suggestions again this yea...

Lambing season will be starting here sometime next week.  Can you tell?  Check out the big bellies on all these moms-to-be!  

Shortly after I started learning to make soap, I started noticing other soap makers selling "shampoo bars."  My hair is waist leng...

Hey!  While I wasn't looking, we reached another of the milestones I set out to trigger another giveaway:  This blog now has 100 followe...

For the past couple of years, we've been talking about finally putting a garden in.  This year, we're already off to a late start, c...

We used our home-cured bacon in a recipe for the first time tonight, and it was amazing!  We used the bacon from batch #1, which turned out...

I'm not Italian, I don't consider myself a gourmet cook, and until a few weeks ago I wouldn't have been able to pronounce "...