by Victoria Gazeley | Nov 7, 2012 | Emergency Preparedness, From City to Country, Lessons
You’re driving down a long country road on the way to your weekend retreat, or maybe you’re on your way back to your rural home from the winter market. It’s freezing out. It’s snowing hard. And you’re miles from your destination....
by Victoria Gazeley | Sep 4, 2012 | Chickens, Cleaning, Emergency Preparedness, Livestock, Mice, Pests
“Mama, where’s the peppermint oil?” My 9-year old son had eaten something that didn’t agree with him and was looking for relief. As is usual around here with all sorts of health maladies, we didn’t reach for pharmaceuticals or the...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jul 19, 2012 | Animals, Emergency Preparedness, Livestock
We recently had our first chicken illness. Or so we thought. Turned out it wasn’t a disease after all, but the whole process was an eye-opener for us – and more than a little stressful. And it got me to thinking – how many people add livestock (or...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jan 30, 2012 | Animals, Emergency Preparedness, From City to Country, Home Business from the Homestead, Lessons, Livestock, Pests, Rural Living Skills, Wildlife
If you can count on me for anything, it’s to give you the straight goods on country living. No fluff. You’re not going to find me waxing poetic about how la-de-da wonderful everything is every moment of every day – especially when it comes to the...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jan 13, 2012 | Emergency Preparedness, Homestead Planning
I spent the last week looking over my goals and accomplishments from 2011. What worked, what didn’t, what I’d never, ever try again (like putting too many things on my to-do list!)… My iMac screen is covered with mindmaps, to-do lists, videos and...
by Victoria Gazeley | Nov 20, 2011 | Emergency Preparedness, From City to Country, Homestead Planning, Lessons, Rural Real Estate
It’s getting cold here. The ground is rock solid frozen and we’ve gone full into ‘winter mode’. Now that we’ve got livestock (chickens), it adds a whole new dimension to preparing our rural property to keep everyone (and everything)...
