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Fall Gardening Project | Rural Aspirations
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Laquo; One day, a horse. Our first year of raising meat birds: what we’ve learned. Posted October 2, 2011 by Hideaway Farm in being green. Last year I just about broke my back digging raised beds. I had two strategies under consideration, and I ended up trying both of them today. First up was the Lasagna Garden. After bringing the pile of feed bags to the garden, I brought out my brand-new wheelbarrow (yikes, are these things expensive! It was lovely work. The dirt smelled wonderful, and it came up w...
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Preparing new garden beds | Rural Aspirations
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Laquo; Driveway Facelift. In Search of Homemade Bread. Preparing new garden beds. Posted November 2, 2010 by Hideaway Farm in gardening. The kids have been busy this fall with swimming lessons, art class, skating, and other adventures. In between times I’ve been heading outside whenever the weather permits in an effort to build my new vegetable garden before the weather gets too cold and wet. I’m following the method espoused by Steve Solomon in his book Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades. You are c...
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Do you know where your STUFF comes from? | Rural Aspirations
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Laquo; Rendering Our Pig Fat Into Lard. Do you know where your STUFF comes from? Posted December 20, 2011 by Hideaway Farm in consumerism. I’m taking a departure from my usual farm updates to share some of my recent thoughts about consumerism and the STUFF we bring into our homes and our lives. It’s increasingly common to hear people asking about where their food comes from, particularly in communities like ours. Who tended to this crop and were they paid a fair wage? So over the next couple of weeks as ...
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Free Motion Quilting | Rural Aspirations
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Laquo; Planning for the New Home Has Begun! Posted August 7, 2012 by Hideaway Farm in homemaking. More recently, when I began planning in earnest for our new home, I thought about how moving to a bigger house often means having to fill that extra space with Stuff, and I wrote a post about how I didn’t want to get sucked into buying things that had no meaning. At the library I found a book about something called machine quilting and I got very excited. You could do this on a sewing machine? This blog was ...
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Homesteading | Rural Aspirations
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Posted by Hideaway Farm. Note: new book reviews will be added to the top of this page, in order to save repeat visitors from having to scroll down an increasingly longer page each time. Enjoy! By Clarke Snell and Tim Callahan. Building things, the Dream. I’ve recently become interested in learning more about sustainable building techniques. I picked a random selection of books on the subject from the library one week and came across Clarke Snell’s previous book The Good House Book. My compost is no good?
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House Planning | Rural Aspirations
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Laquo; Do you know where your STUFF comes from? Posted January 20, 2012 by Hideaway Farm in being green. Step #1: Know Your Land. When we were first looking at land, many resources I consulted said the same thing: if you are planning to build try to live on the property for at least a year, if not longer, before breaking ground on your new home. One of the great features of this property was the mobile home. Old enough (and ugly enough! Step #2: Choose Your Building Site. Step #3: The Layout. I’m a...
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Simplicity | Rural Aspirations
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Posted by Hideaway Farm. Note: new book reviews will be added to the top of this page, in order to save repeat visitors from having to scroll down an increasingly longer page each time. Enjoy! Know your food, simple living. The World Without Us. Sustainable living, being green. By John de Graaf, David Wann, and Thomas H. Naylor. Consumerism, simple living. The Total Money Makeover. Living Simply with Children. The Not So Big House. The dream, simple living. Your Money or Your Life. The 100 Mile Diet.
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The 2012 Growing Season has Begun! | Rural Aspirations
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Laquo; The Dream: revisited. The Joy of Riding. The 2012 Growing Season has Begun! Posted March 27, 2012 by Hideaway Farm in Uncategorized. This past weekend we finally got some lovely warm spring-like weather, the kind that makes you feel like the last place you want to be is indoors (especially when “indoors” is a small metal box with few windows! Kept me company and even though the topic was Canadian politics I couldn’t have been happier given where I was. I ended up raking the leaves (I was surprised...
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The Dream: revisited | Rural Aspirations
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Laquo; House Planning. The 2012 Growing Season has Begun! Posted March 21, 2012 by Hideaway Farm in the dream. Way back at the beginning of this blog I described The Dream. Yesterday one of my favourite bloggers, Jenna of Cold Antler Farm. Who is well on her way to fulfilling her dreams of being a farmer) asked us loyal readers about our own dreams. I figured it was time to revisit that post I made just over four years ago. We have a fenced pasture/paddock area for the pigs. We did get a dog. I have the ...
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Planning for the New Home Has Begun! | Rural Aspirations
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Laquo; The Joy of Riding. Planning for the New Home Has Begun! Posted July 23, 2012 by Hideaway Farm in being green. Back at the beginning of this year I wrote about my forays into house planning. It has taken me over 7 months and many, many edits but I have finally come up with a layout that I like, that gives me what I want, and that puts the house size at under 2500 square feet. In fact, this only just happened two days ago! In my previous house-planning post. The other company we are interviewing is ...
