Hey, friends! Here’s the latest post from our sister site, Back Yard Chicken Guide:
Over the past two years I spent a lot of time cleaning my backyard chicken eggs, which has been extremely frustrating and time consuming. Read More…
Will over at First Quarter Finance had a fun post this week called 25 Random Things About Me, and since I’m freaking out about our May budget (I went way over on groceries and transferred our medical bills from Maddie’s surgery onto one of our credit cards, so although in theory we don’t have more debt, it feels like we do, and I’m losing it a bit over this) I thought I’d traumatize entertain you all with a similar post until I get my head out of the sand long enough to report our May numbers. 🙂
Here are 20 random things about me. Read more
With Fathers Day right around the corner, I figured I’d throw out some great Fathers Day gift ideas to readers today. Does anyone else think dads can be really hard to buy for? It’s nice to buy something new and different for dad, but what? Another tie? As I pondered our Father’s Day gathering (we kids and our families always join dad at a local park for BBQ and games), I came up with some ideas both on the frugal side, and the not-so-frugal side. Read more
Happy Friday, Frugal Farmer friends! Sorry I’ve been so MIA this last couple of weeks. When you live on a farm with self-sufficiency as a goal, the arrival of spring and summer means the arrival of a LOT of work. We’re getting the garden in, chopping wood for next winter (the wood stove will be installed in July at the latest – WOOHOO!) and catching up on all of that big cleaning of bedding, winter gear, etc., that I couldn’t do until recently since we couldn’t hang stuff on the clothes line due to our ridiculously long winter. Add that in with finishing up home schooling, caring for farm animals, and helping my parents search for senior living communities, and that means a whole lot of busy. Rick’s been working 10-11 hour days every day too, and although we’re working hard on finding down time, rest these days seems to be highly evasive. Therefore, we are planning on trying to simply relax for a good chunk of the weekend. Well, part of the weekend, anyway. 🙂
Ok, now that my babbling is finished, I wanted to talk to you a bit today about a subject that has become increasingly near and dear to my heart Read more
Here’s our newest article over at one of our sister sites, Backyard Chicken Guide, a great tip on sustainability and saving money.
How to Provide Free Food for Your Chickens
Don’t think for a moment that your precious sacrifices of time, money, family and often life, are forgotten, even for a moment. There are millions of people out there like our family who think often about all that you have done, currently do, and will continue to do to protect our country and its citizens. For all that you do, thank you, from the bottom of our hearts. We will cherish and value your service always, and commit to teaching our descendants to do the same. May God bless you and keep you and your families.
I want to talk a little bit today about, I guess, what it takes to reach a goal. Our oldest, the author, is also a talented artist, as you can see from some of her work that I’ve shared here. Somebody said to me the other day Read more
*** We are not health experts or doctors. All opinions and experiences stated here are our own, and we are not responsible for any conclusions you may come to as a result of this article.
There’s much debate in Internet land about whether or not organic food is really that much different or better than it’s mainstream counterpart. One search of the web and you’ll find a myriad of stories, studies and articles, both about why organic food is so much better, and also about how pesticides don’t really hurt you much at all.
I first started my study on diet vs. health in the year 2001. When I had Maddie near the end of 1999, it was a dangerous and traumatic birth, and both of us nearly died. Read more
Happy Friday, Frugal Farmer Friends! 🙂 Today I’m thrilled to publish a guest post from one of my favorite new bloggers, Shoeaholic No More. Like so many of us personal finance bloggers, SHNM, as I affectionately like to call her, has committed to working her way out of debt – a LOT of debt. She’s relatively new on her journey, but you’ll thoroughly enjoy her fun writing style and engaging personality. Welcome, SHNM! Read more
*This post contains affiliate links.
I never thought I’d do a cutlery review on this site, mostly because we’re not buying much these days, but I just had to share with you our experience with Cutco Cutlery. Most everyone who’s ever known a college kid has heard of Cutco. College kids often work as Cutco Cutlery Sales Associates to groom their people and sales skills and to make a little cash while in college. When my niece called Rick and I, asking for us to listen to her Cutco demonstration, we said yes, albeit hesitantly. We weren’t accustomed to spending $63 for a single knife, and money, until recently, has always been a struggle for us due to poor money management. Read more
