Saturday, February 12, 2022
One of our 5 year old Dunstan Chestnut Trees
When my husband and I first purchased our property 5 years ago, it was a lot of rolling open grass- the kind of lawn that suburbians would kill for. I looked at it and said, "Very nice, I'll change it all though- I can't eat manicured lawn." So the first thing we did to convert the property to "homestead" was to plant a ton of fruit and nut trees.
My husband is highly skilled in digging into the reasons for doing something, especially if that something is going to cost him time, money, and la read more...
Fresh cut
One year old cut
Two year old cut
|
Saturday, February 5, 2022
Guild map
It's early February, and as such, I'm absolutely positively fed up with dark, cloudy, wet, wintery weather.
To make up for the feeling of discontent with the lingering winter season, I'm spending my time doing a bit of pre-spring spring cleaning, planning out the garden guilds and plantings, getting a lot of reading done, and continuing to add to our homestead store inventory.
I've got to prune the apple and chestnut trees, the grape vines, and "hedge" the Osage hedgerow. All of those th read more...
Garden planning materials
Birthday boots
|
Friday, February 4, 2022
We're very excited to be utilizing a new platform! For those of you who have been following us at Wholly Holy Living for a long time, we're glad you're here! For those of you who are new to Shaggy Maple, welcome! We hope that we can continue to share our homesteading adventures with all of you, and continue to do so all to God's glory.
We're still learning the platform, and figuring out how to flesh out the website so that it's easily navigable, and also beautiful! Because we value the good, read more...
|