Big plans for 2015
It's all fun and
games...until I get the 2015 planner. Then I get ambitious and start
making lists, and poor Mark has to put his nose back to the grindstone.
If you're a relatively new reader, you might find this post about our annual tasks
helpful as you plan out your own homesteading year. I even included a
spreadsheet with our yearly planting dates at the end of that post ---
the first seeds go in the ground around here at the beginning of
February under quick hoops unless the ground is ultra cold, so you don't
have as much planning time as you might think!
We haven't added any big projects to our list this year, but we are spending some time expanding certain systems. First, we've decided to streamline our mushroom operation,
perhaps with some sort of small shade house to keep the mushrooms cool
and moist on summer days (since sticking them under the fruit trees just
didn't cut it), and we're also splurging on two new colonies of chemical-free bees
for which we'll be returning to our original Langstroth hives.
Meanwhile, if Abigail is pregnant, I'll be learning to milk, and we'll
definitely be growing more goat fodder plants in the garden during the
summer months. Finally, we had so much fun with our limited sugar mapling
this past winter that we might expand a bit this year, and there are
always new perennials on the horizon. So stay tuned for lots of furry,
leafy, and sweet fun in the year to come!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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