by Victoria Gazeley | Mar 19, 2013 | Homesteading Stories, Lessons, Rural Living Skills, Vegetable Gardening
First, there was the year the slugs ate everything. And I mean everything. Then there was the one where it was rainy and cold right through til the end of July (not terribly inspiring for anything but greens). And who could forget 2012, when I didn’t even...
by Victoria Gazeley | Feb 22, 2013 | Mentoring, Rural Living Skills
As an urbanite, I had this long-held dream of homesteading, of living off our own rural property, collecting eggs from our free ranging chickens, picking and storing our own organic vegetables and fruit, and working from home. I think I even romanticized it a bit...
by Victoria Gazeley | Feb 4, 2013 | Food Storage, Homestead Planning, Lessons, Vegetable Gardening
Cold, damp, dark. It’s a typical February on the rainy west coast. Not complaining – at least we’re not buried in snow, and the temperatures are relatively balmy compared to a big chunk of the continent. It may not be a good time for soaking in...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jan 29, 2013 | Animals, Chickens, Livestock
Let’s face it – raising chickens for your own fresh eggs is like a gateway drug to a full-fledged addiction to all things ‘rural’. At least it seems that way, with practically every second magazine having anything to do with ‘home’...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jan 22, 2013 | Chickens
When you live in a rainforest, it rains. (Right about now you’re probably thinking, “No kidding [or insert expletive here], Sherlock.”) Stay with me here. Are you ready for another ridiculously obvious statement? (I’m on a roll!) Lots of rain...
