I always prefer homemade; so I figured why not homemade bug spray as well? If you’d like to keep unwanted creepy crawlies at bay, read on! DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links. ♥ We’ve discovered countless, fascinating insects since moving to our new farm. Some familiar. Some brilliantly unfamiliar. Some that are common, but seen through new eyes. We’ve […]
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I’d heard of Old Home Days in New England for decades. Funny how we sometimes assume we know something and for years (maybe a lifetime) never question. Never ask. What Will You Find at an Old Home Day? While on summer vacations over the years, I’d attended quite a Old Home Days, in small rural
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It was our first garden on our new homestead and we needed to learn how to deter the deer from dining on our veggies. The corn was getting just tall enough to offer real promise of delicious August meals. And the tomatoes were the size of bright green golf balls, starting to show hints of
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Sometimes it’s the smallest things that mom would like us to say “thank you” for. It’s time we thank mom for all the little things. She taught me how to use a can opener, make a bed, and scramble an egg perfectly. She was the one who drove me to the library multiple times a
Our old farmhouse had dilapidated wide plank flooring that was worth saving; those boards embody history you can feel in your toes. So one New England summer I was on a mission. It had been six long weeks. Three of research: internet, calls, emails. Three of sharpening and scraping: inch by inch, board by board. Read more–the
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Discovering Cookie was a huge excitement on our little New England farm last month. The next gray tree frog sighting was just as monumental, albeit, well a Crumb of a Cookie… He was amazingly docile and calm, only jumping out of her hand a few times but, for the most part, letting her hold him and
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You probably won’t be surprised to know that I truly love my old wide-plank wood floors in our 200-year-old farmhouse. But you may be surprised why. EDITED TO ADD: This is just the first of many articles about our old farmhouse floors and our 220-year-old New England farmhouse. Go here for the rest of the
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So your kid might wanna start a blog? Read on for inspiration. Scroll to the bottom for 3 tips that will enable to you help your child start blogging like a pro. You’ll love this post too–> Secrets to encouraging your child as an entrepreneur On hot summer afternoons when I was 11, I would
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Watching a daughter make homemade pizza in our beehive oven tonight reminded me of something… But before I tell you about that, I should explain that my sourdough pizza crust recipe is right here. While this post is really about all about how to encourage our children to discover what they’re passionate about, our family’s
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We pass a lot of things on to our kids, but what do we really give them when we pass on a love for gardening? I have been pondering this a lot lately… It arrived via Fed Ex today. Shinny and ready to use. She was so excited. She couldn’t wait to fill it.
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