Biothermal composting that I learned from @Jack Spirko Third year doing it. Start it in April every year and spread the Black gold into my garden beds in November before it freezes here. I save all the yard waste through the year and use my little chipper I bought at an auction to grind it up. Takes me about 4-5 hours but next year the kiddos are going to learn! #Iowa #homestead #compost

Growing my own slips. To think my first year I bought some and had them shipped…😝

The first photo is tomato plants I’m carefully growing and monitoring… the second is a random volunteer that grew out of my worm compost. It’s also a week younger! 😝 #gardening

When you have all the kitchen gadgets you get to make fun and tasty stuff. Homemade beef bologna from a chuck roast.

When are we going to start chopping off heads?!

Floor 16- Nice day for Iowa in December 😉 #buildingamerica

Want to add a light to the run area to increase egg production. AI is telling me LED’s are the way to go but I don’t trust it… 😆 What is everyone else using? #asknostr

You can really tell the difference between store bought and our own backyard eggs. The store bought are even the expensive free range ones…

Helped a friend/co worker with some concrete advice and connections and they repay me with a ribeye roast I sliced up! Highly recommended! 😃

#concrete #buildingamerica

First melon we’ve ever grown. Holy hell is it delicious!! #gardenstr #homestead

Started reading this with my 9 year old daughter. She’s not a hunter but it’s a great book! “I remembered a passage from the Bible my mother had read to us: ‘God helps those who help themselves.’ I thought of the words. I mulled them over in my mind. I decided I’d ask God to help me. There on the banks of the Illinois River, in the cool shade of the tall white sycamores, I asked God to help me get two hound pups. It wasn’t much of a prayer, but it did come right from the heart.”

Got Baptized today! #father #son #holyghost

#asknostr What’s a good economically priced miner I can stick in my wife’s office for heat this winter?!

9 Quarts of beef stew. 9 pints of Marinara. 8 pints of homemade tomato soup! Still have the bone broth in the crock. Definitely one of our most productive weekends and it’s not even full harvest time! #canning

More beets and fermented pickles tonight. It’s funny how this would typically be an all day event for either. Not I can do both in an evening and make dinner! #canning #ferment