It’s been a long several months and after many false starts we are together at the new farm in Virginia. Not the one from my previous post due to many issues with banks and sellers, but still a very nice place to rebuild.
It is a leased tree nursery for 8 acres of the property through [...]
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The new farm is starting!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
New and free Wagon!
Posted in Infrastructure, The Homestead, Tools, Uncategorized on March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
They were doing spring cleaning at Kurt’s work this week. He caught them just as they were about to chop up a wagon they had for grounds maintenance and throw it in a dumpster! The next day we rented a uhaul to get that wagon to the farm because it’s just what I’ve been wanting [...]
Red Bourbon Heritage Turkeys
Posted in Poultry, The Homestead, Uncategorized on December 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
One of the greatest pleasures is to be able to sit down to Thanksgiving dinner with a turkey that you raised yourself. Somehow the celebration becomes just that much more special.
Turkeys are fairly easy to raise. I’ve tried two kinds – the Broad Breasted kind – both white and bronze and while they do grow [...]
Wood fired hot tub update
Posted in Uncategorized on December 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, the tub is installed and the first fire is started! In a few hours hopefully we will be enjoying a nice soak in the hot tub!
We built a simple 8 by8 deck – first I put down weed cloth that Ihappened to have, then we put 4 by4 runners on that and put in [...]
Dark Cornish Chickens
Posted in Poultry, Uncategorized on December 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Over the years I have experimented with growing our own poultry for food. First we got those white cornish cross chickens for a couple of years but they were such nasty birds! They would get very filthy no matter what you did and more than a few would die of a heart attack before we [...]
Hello world!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Welcome to the Deberosa Homestead Blog. Deberosa is the name of my homestead on the Olympic Peninsula. In the first four years I have been tranforming an abandonned farm into a sustainable system to provide our food. Join me as we learn together how to be more self sufficient and sustainable in our lives no [...]
