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.
This has been a productive week of prepping here on our survival homesteading retreat. My Bobby and I took Monday off work for the Labor Day holiday, and used the time to get another pasture cut down and ready to go back into the rotation for fall and autumn medicinal herbs planted. We are blessed to have enough land to…
Harvesting and preserving time may be over, but there is still plenty of hot, sweaty, and dirty work going on here on our survival homesteading retreat. Our preps this week were primarily focused on moving downed trees that had been drying, chopping them up, and then splitting them to make firewood. Bobby and I had several “date nights” out enjoying…
This was primarily a learning and buying week on our survival homesteading retreat. I went to the annual library sale in my home county with my mother, like I do every year..and struck gold! We always make an afternoon of the annual event held during a local festival. You can buy a canvas tote bag for $4 (was only $3…
This has been an exciting week on our survival homesteading retreat. At first, it looked like Murphy’s Law was going to stick around, but thankfully it did not. At the beginning of the week, Harley suddenly began suffering from the same right leg – shoulder trouble as Ruby. It is just so strange. I doctored Harley, also a high-strung mare,…
This was a Murphy’s Law kind of week on our survival homesteading retreat. If ever, just once, all the vehicles and equipment remain in full working order at the same time I am going to see if I can still pull off a cartwheel to celebrate! On my way back from picking up my wedding ring from getting repaired I…
It is harvest time here on our survival homesteading retreat. We picked and then began processing, about 620 ears of corn on Monday. I was so tired I lost count, even though I was tasked with keeping it. We ended up giving a good bit of corn away to tribe members and then cheated a little bit – at my…
This week on our survival homesteading retreat was not as active as usual, we are all still reeling from the loss of Matty. Bobby purchased the small yet strong tractor Matty had here from his family – glad it will be staying here for both useful and sentimental reasons. I want to apologize for the delay in getting the interactive…
It has been a very sad week on our survival homesteading retreat. We suddenly, and without warning, tragically lost a member of our tribe – a man everyone would probably agree was the most valuable member. My husband’s childhood buddy Mark, although everyone called him Matty (and I never really grasped why) or Mad Dog, collapsed at the local pharmacy…
Hello again, all of my new virtual prepping pals! I am so glad everyone is reconnecting and welcoming new members to the online survival community. This week we made a major prepping purchase – a new to us hay baler. Last year we cut the fields with a bush hog attachment to my husband’s beloved old Massey Ferguson tractor and…
Hello The Survivalist Blog community. This week on the homestead was another hot one mixed with the ill-timed brief yet, fierce storms. The wettest year on record continues in my beautiful neck of the woods. We are merely alternating between desert-like conditions and flash flooding. The ever changing weather has made it especially hard to do anything, including tending to…