I know, I know – it’s been absolutely forever since we made a post to our YouTube and website – although the Instagram and Facebook pages have been a much more reliable way to stay connected with our homestead journey....
The Life
As we move into the homestead and start working through projects for the spring – a windy day brought a welcome surprise as the local affiliate of Cleary Building Corp – the team at Shamrock Buildings in Fort Collins, Colorado...
One of the biggest challenges in the house on the new homestead is a lack of storage. It’s difficult to do canning and cold storage and bulk food for making healthy meals when you dont have places to put flour,...
Getting the first year seeds started required getting started in the house, and getting a little creative on where to put them to keep them warm. In Colorado, our late frost is usually in Mid-May which means that the early...
The first epic snow on our new homestead took less than a month since we closed on the property! In the midst of the storm, I had to go out and find the barn cat, and nearly a day and...
We have a cat. Its a barn cat. We didn’t intend to have a barn cat right away, but for some odd reason, the people that we bought the property left a perfectly healthy, well domesticated, very actually nice cat...
Its a pretty amazing feeling to see that it’s our homestead now! The process to get here has taken some time – there have been a lot of ups and downs but we are so grateful that God has provided...
After what feels (at times) like an interminable process of paperwork, and waiting, and paperwork, and waiting, and surprise inspection, and waiting – it’s finally time: The Move is Upon Us! Two Moves… actually. Technically, we don’t own the homestead...
After going radio slient on A Grateful Hearth while we worked through more sensitive financial and assessment portions of the home buying and selling process, it’s been an incredible rollercoaster. Out of all of the things in buying the homestead...
