The “almost famous” weekly preps series, where Tara Dodrill shares her latest prepping and homesteading progress with the Pack, and with anyone else who wants to be inspired on his or her homesteading journey.
Hello, Pack. We have had a busy week here on the homestead. I am delighted to report, not only have we not been flooded in in quite a while, but only had a brief sprinkling of rain. I sure hope my excitement about no rain does not come back to haunt us this summer. Last year, we went from the…
Hey Pack, the baby goats finally arrived! I was wrong about Pearl throwing three kids this time. She had one of each and everyone is healthy. You can’t tell in the photo, but the male, the taller one, has an adorable white fluffy patch of hair on his forehead. I have promised my beloved that I am not keeping all…
Hello Pack. I am hoping spring is finally going to show up. This constant on and off snow and rain and ever fluctuating temperatures is beyond frustrating – and also perfect cold weather. Days on the calendar keep ticking away toward spring, but warm weather and gardening season seem to still be quite elusive. I have seeds that are thriving…
Hello Pack. This week on the homestead we have been getting crop and herbal seeds growing indoors in the hope that spring will one day arrive. I am hoping the groundhog was right and we are going to have an early spring this year, I have had about all of the snow I can stand. We are still battling mud…
Good morning Pack. It has been a week or so of dealing with flood water – with temperatures ranging from a high of 73 degrees all the way back down to 30 degrees. The ground is simply saturated and still frozen solid more than a few inches down from the surface. Mother Nature has given us a run for our…
It has been an exceptionally wet and muddy week here on our survival homesteading retreat. We were flooded in on Wednesday, with a lot more of that to come as spring arrives. The photo above was taken long before it was done pouring the rain and the water started moving a whole lot faster. I fully expect to find bicycles,…
Hello Pack. Hope you all are doing well and got a chance to read the piece I wrote for Dan last week that took a political view of prepping. Our preps this week focused upon digging out from snow and ice, and then working on our ¼ mile farm road so it would be passable (at least in 4-wheel drive)…
It has been an awesome week of prepping here on our survival homesteading retreat, and I barely had to lift a finger. Bobby and I spent several hours mapping out our spring, summer, and fall improvement plans – and it was an incredibly productive blast! As I have noted before during my weekly prepping updates, we have been talking about…
Hey Pack. We have been working on increasing our storage space and organizing everyday preps to keep them far more handy. I consider it a big win when I can use preps as part of our home decor – survival gear hiding in plain sight can be attractive, and a decorating money saver. My evergrowing cast iron cookware is constantly…
Hello Pack! We have been busy working on spring and summer planning preps, getting some more indoor crop going underway, and working on our road…again. I am thrilled we are not getting ridiculously cold winter temperatures yet, but consistent rain has kept us living in a mud bog. I welcomed a few chilly days because it allowed the ground to…