Food Health

Let's get serious about food for just a moment. It is a battle to feed your family clean (non GMO, organic, etc.) food and not be totally broke! This year was our fourth spring on the farmstead and I feel as though I was 50/50 on successes and losses. I grew great squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes in our raised beds made from shipping crates. I used a bit of hugelkulture and was given some alpaca poop compost to boost my soil mix.

I was able to can plenty of jellys, jams, and pie fillings..but from fruit I purchased from a local produce market.

We have plenty of fresh eggs from our laying hens and delicious honey from our bees. Unfortunately I didn't do as well with beans, peas, or lettuces. Really praying to get our aquaponics system set up by next year. Our summer is so hot that some things just burn up, so thinking of some sort of a shade canopy as well. Soil is very costly and I cant seem to compost enough to make what I need, but little by little we will get there! A huge plus was our meat birds! We got Cornish Cross chicks in mid February. Husband built a Taj Mahal of a chicken tractor..we fed them twice daily and moved them to fresh pasture and bugs every few days.

When we butchered them out at 12 weeks they dressed out at 5-6 pounds a piece! filled the freezer with 25! Thats Sunday dinner for half a year, plus soup stock.

It isn't an easy or quick journey to cleaner eating, but we are learning! And it's worth it.