Comments on: The hardest thing about homesteading

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:27:23 +0000

I love this. I grew up in Upper Michigan on a farm. I now have a farm of my own in Upper Michigan. Our winter consist of generally six months of xontant snow, never less than a foot on the ground (that's the little amount we have at the beginning and end of winter) and generally two solid months of wind chills that never get warmer than -20. And let me tell you, I'd never want it any other way. Me? Love winter. In January I start day dreaming of vacations...to the Arctic circle. But, I completely understand it. It gets hard. Especially when the first thing that happens doing chores in the dark at 8:00 in the morning is spilling all the duck water down your legs and into your boots.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 04:19:02 +0000

In reply to Kathi. YES! We actually took a mini vacation before Christmas this year and all our farm sitter had to do was make sure the cows were fed, not milked! Such a huge relief.

By: Kathi

Kathi — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 01:23:46 +0000

My milking secret is out! lol! I did the same thing with my goats. If we had an early morning appointment, I didn’t separate the kids at night. Too hot? Too cold? Too busy? No worries. That was even my secret when we’d take a very occasional weekend away from the homestead, because it’s SO much easier to find a farm sitter if they don’t have to know how to milk goats!