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A working homestead, small-farm experiments, practical lessons, and the occasional questionable decision...

01/09/2026

Honey, Bee in Bloom! 🌻 🐝

31/08/2026

Drool worthy homemade Michigan Pasties! My secret ingredient makes the dough super tender while keeping that addictive crunch.

11/08/2026

My hens left before last winter did, but not before leaving me a parting gift in their run. A feral one.

So when those big beautiful green leaves unfurled from nowhere, what did I do? Absolutely nothing. I let it live its best life, free will and all.

My logic: if it's confident enough to climb the walls and break into the coop uninvited, it can handle itself. No water, no pruning, no fertilizer. Nothing. I basically ghosted this plant.

And yet. Despite my full commitment to doing nothing, it thrived, gave me winter squash AND a few bonus fall decorations.

Do I know what franken-variety it is? Not a clue. Did it ask my permission to grow here? Also no.

But I'm about to find out what's inside. Wanna watch? Drop a 🎃 below and let's crack these mystery squash open together.

05/08/2026

What kind of squash do you think this is? It is a volunteer from last fall.
I think maybe a golden buttercup??

30/07/2026

It's in the chicken run ceiling now. It's also found its way in the pop door. Stick around, more "squashes gone feral" to come.

21/07/2026

The mound bed has grown some fabulous wild weeds this year. Some where beyond that are some onions and potatoes. The strawberries are in there, too.

And have a look at this wild squash from a seed that the chickens left last fall. Now, the chickens are long gone but this monstrosity remains. I can't wait to find out what kind it is.

20/07/2026

I'm pretty proud of my first snapdragon bouquet of the year. Especially since I've been a bad plant mom and let most of my gardens go feral.

Wait till you see what's happening in the old chicken coop. It deserves its own episode of "Gardens Gone Wild" 🤦‍♀️

26/05/2026

Sometimes the biggest business decision is knowing when to pivot.

After a lot of thought, I’ve decided I won’t be running the mushroom grow-op this season.

This wasn’t an easy decision.

Growing specialty mushrooms, building a market business, showing up in all kinds of weather, learning production systems, pricing, packaging, booth setup, inventory headaches, and all the thousand tiny things nobody sees behind the scenes taught me a lot.

Some lessons were exciting.
Some were expensive.
A few were the kind you only learn the hard way.

And honestly? I realized I have just as much passion for helping other small makers, growers, homesteaders, and handmade business owners avoid those same mistakes as I do making the products myself.

So while I’m stepping away from production for now, I’m not disappearing.

Instead, I’ll be sharing more of the real behind-the-scenes business side of small-scale selling:

🍄 Do you actually have a business… or an expensive hobby?
🍄 What first-time market vendors never budget for
🍄 Pricing mistakes that quietly kill profit
🍄 Expense tracking without wanting to throw your laptop into the woods
🍄 Farmers market lessons I learned the expensive way
🍄 What I wish someone had told me before I started

If you’ve ever thought about selling handmade goods, cottage food, farm products, or starting a tiny home-based business, stick around.

I have stories. 😄

05/04/2026

A wonderful paper craft for this spring!

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