Planting Potatoes: The Double Dig Method
St Patrick’s Day is usually my cue that potatoes need to be planted. You can still get your spuds in
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garden, potatoes, vegetables
Egg Recipe: Garden Fritatta
Four ducks plus three chickens equals a huge amount of eggs on the homestead. Surprisingly, we are keeping up with
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cooking, egg recipes, harvest, recipes
Anniversary Winner
Thank you all for your great comments on the post last week about the fifth anniversary of Hip Chick Digs!
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cast your vote, modern homesteading
Inviting Birds into the Garden
The sounds of birds and the buzzing of insects in springtime is a reminder for me that our homestead supports
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design, ecology, garden, wildlife
Taking Down the Snag
Gather round kids as I tell you a story of a snag and a homestead… A snag is a dead
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ecology, trees, wildlife
HipChickDigs Turns Five + Giveaway!
Hip Chick Digs turns five today! I wrote my first blog post about nine months after we moved into this
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books, garden, modern homesteading
Spring Signs of Summer Fruit
Junebug and I were taking a morning stroll through our backyard oasis noticing little signs of budding fruit. It’s looking
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food forest, garden, trees
Becoming A Parent: What I’ve Learned So Far
It is a pretty steep learning curve when you become a parent for the first time. After a month and
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kids
Emerging Spring
Spring is emerging from the sleepiness of winter and showing signs all over the homestead. What seeds are popping up
Our Homestead Plan
We moved into our homestead back in 2006 when it was just a blank canvas of lawn, with a couple
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design, food forest, garden, modern homesteading, permaculture