by | Mar 22, 2020 | Children on the Homestead, Home Learning, Uncategorized
It’s 6:30 AM on a Monday. Your alarm blares. All you want to do is sleep in. As much as you want to fight the noise, it barrels into your subconscious, kicking you awake. You know you have to get up and get the kids ready for a new week of school. You snatch...
by Victoria Gazeley | Dec 24, 2012 | Animals, Chickens, Children on the Homestead, Lessons, Livestock, Wildlife
The world didn’t end on December 21, 2012. At least for most of us. One of our little roosters wasn’t so lucky. He was a beautiful boy – half Buff Orpington and half ISA Brown (which I guess means half Buff and ¼ Rhode Island Red/¼ Rhode Island White). Lovely red...
by Victoria Gazeley | Sep 18, 2012 | Children on the Homestead, From City to Country, Lessons
“Come see what I built!” It was an invitation from my then almost-9-year-old son to visit the space he had built for himself to ‘get away from it all’. He led me carefully through one of the many patches of undergrowth near our little cabin, thick with salmon...