by Faith | Oct 17, 2025 | Farm Life, General, Uncategorized
Skills I’ve learned since living off grid… How to raise happy and health chickens How to raise my own diary and meat How to make cheese (from the amazing people at Vumba) How to manage farmland in a sustainable way How to fire-proof a property as much as you can How...
by Faith | Sep 14, 2025 | Farm Life, General, Uncategorized
Parasites on the Farm.. Many of you may not know but I’m a qualified and certified nutritional therapist and herbalist (among a ton of other weird and wonderful modalities). And because of this and because I spent a lot of my life struggling with many chronic health...
by Faith | May 28, 2025 | Farm Life, General, Uncategorized
Growing Strawberries The first few years of living in Portugal I did not do very well at growing strawberries. There were not very many and it was not a very long season. Now there are masses of them, every day, every year, and the last few years the season has...
by Faith | May 18, 2025 | Digestive Health, General, Nutrition, Uncategorized
What I did wrong when I discovered I’d poisoned myself with oxalates… Many years ago, when I was still plant-based I heard about oxalates and thought it was completely ridiculous that all my whole food superfoods could be harming my health. I brushed this nonsense...
by Faith | Apr 3, 2025 | Farm Life, General, Uncategorized
My Homesteading Journal is here! For years now I have wanted somewhere to write down all my plans, dreams, goals, research, planting, harvesting, egg collection, animal purchases and preserving down. I wanted to be able to keep track of what is happening on the land...
by Faith | Apr 2, 2025 | Farm Life, General, Uncategorized
Broody Chickens Although chickens can and will go broody any time of year, they mostly do this in the spring and early summer. You’ll know a chicken is broody because she won’t want to get off her eggs (apart from for a short time to eat and drink) and will become a...
