Author Archives: Slocum's Creak

As you may already know, I built a compost bin from six pallets. I got the idea from Mike from Sustainable Me on youtube. For now, I just have the one bin, the setup he showed had three, and I’m headed that way. As soon as I harvest the corn, I’ll put up the secondContinue reading “More on the compost bin.”

  I went to the local thrift shop the other day. I went looking for something for someone else and stumbled across this.   When I picked it up, I was trasported back in time and was once again standing on a foot stool in my grandmas kitchen helping her cook. So many memories cameContinue reading “Sometimes, it’s the little things.”

I was looking through my blog posts and noticed I hadn’t posted about the mulberry trees we have growing here. When I first bought this place, there was one tree that, in reality, looks to be four smaller trees that came up together and grew into one. Or perhaps it was damaged many years agoContinue reading “Mulberry trees.”

It sounds a bit like something from a sci-fi movie. And I’m sure there are those who will point a finger at this post and exclaim not today, Satan! However, this is a topic that I recently stumbled across. And it interests me quite a bit, so much so that I will be setting upContinue reading “Plant cell culture.”

I really enjoy writing, as I’ve said several times in the past. However, inspiration hits at random times. I came up with what I considered a brilliant solution. It would give me multiple topics to write about and leave me with a post per day for an entire year. My plan was to think upContinue reading “Never fails.”

  As most who read my blog knows, ours is a micro homestead effort. And I mean really small.   As such, it’s easy to take things for granted or maybe cut corners. I did both with my chicken coop. I have lumber laying around waiting to be used and several types of fencing, allContinue reading “A word of warning.”

  Out of the 30 + large containers we was given, I have filled 12 so far. And I consider myself rather fortunate in that I’m not paying to fill them with dirt. I’m using a technique called Hugelkultur. I have so much old wood laying around from old trees that it only makes senseContinue reading “Twelve so far.”

It seems there are two steps bacwards. We are making progress, though the efforst seems a bit like swimming against the current at the moment. I had planted a little over 1,000 plants this Spring, things were growing great and a hail storm came slong and wiped most of it out. Some are making aContinue reading “For every step forward,”

We’ve had quite a few plants go to seed, and I’m happy about it. While we won’t eat some of what we grew, we will soon have enough seeds to start new many of our plants for next season. Assuming, of course, we store our seeds properly and are lucky enough and get decent germination.Continue reading “Saving seeds.”