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 are dealing with more weird Ohio weather here. Sunny and super hot (like I love it) and then cold enough to think about lighting up the wood stove and… rain. Every time I start to believe that we can stop living on a mud farm, we get another downpour. We haven’t been flooded in for a while,…
Hello Pack. It has been a weird mix of weather this week on our survival homestead. One minute it feels like glorious summertime, and then the next it is raining just enough to curtail outdoor work. We keep hoping for three straight days of sunshine to get the first cut of hay in, but no luck yet. The hayfield is…
Hello Pack. The weather has alternated between gloriously sunny and in the 70s to rain and dreary damp conditions this week. We are still dealing with a septic tank and leach bed issue. All of the rain we got over the course of several days turned the ditches dug with the old backhoe into nasty lagoons. My faithful companion, Jovie,…
Hello Pack. Most of this week has been devoted to sewer line adventures. I am very thankful that we own an old backhoe, and it has remained in working order for a while or this project would have cost us a bundle. We have been battling water drainage issues after a storm or heavy rain (which seems nearly constant from…
Hello Pack. It has been a fun on the farm kind of week. Growing and raising food has been nearly the sole focus of our tribe. The baby animals just seem to keep on coming on a daily basis. We helped a tribe member with his calving, ever momma and baby are doing quite well. The Buckeye chicken population in…
Hey Pack, I hope you are all having great spring weather and getting tons of gardening and other outdoor preps done too. Being spring, we have been busy with numerous livestock births, both on our own survival retreat, and helping out members of our tribe. I hatched ducks for the very first time this year. Duck eggs are notoriously difficult…
Hello Pack. All of this nice weather has had our tribe not only in a great mood, but incredibly productive. I am so tempted to put my young plants I started from seeds outside, but know it is far too soon to do that in Ohio. Although it has been sunny (mixed with only tiny bits of rain) for days…
Hello Pack. Hope you all have been enjoying lovely spring weather where you live, it has been completely un-winter like here. We have gotten more outdoor chores done this week than we have from January through March of this year total. We even managed to work in a fun little trail ride on our homesteading survival retreat, as well. Once…
Hello Pack. The weather has been cooperating this week, so we have gotten a lot done on our survival homesteading retreat. The rain we have gotten has been extremely minimal. It never ceases to surprise me how much even slightly warm weather and sunshine on your shoulders can vastly improve your mood after a long winter. Prepping this week has…
Hello, Pack. It has been a busy week here on our survival homesteading retreat. It is finally feeling like spring, at least early spring, on a regular basis. We made it through the winter with firewood to spare, but an empty shed got too close for comfort. Our livestock sure is glad to be able to get out and roam…