Welcome Back to The HomeAcre Hop!

Your hosts are:

Ann @ Summers Acres

Carol @ Everything Home with Carol

Jenny @ Black Fox Homestead

and me!

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Summer is Almost Here!

Well, it actually feels like summer already in many parts of the country, and in just a couple of days the summer solstice will usher in the hot, sweaty season when we have trouble keeping up with weeding, watering, harvesting, and preserving the bounty of our gardens. I’m barely keeping up with all of the work around my homestead and I know many of you are in the same boat.

I did finish butchering the last of the meat chickens, and all of the ducks that were slated for the freezer. I have 10 ducks left and I’m waiting to see how many are drakes. We’ll keep one drake and all of the females for laying fertile eggs for next year’s batch of ducklings. The rest of the males will go in the freezer for winter.

My spinach bolted and the first planing of lettuce turned bitter, so they have been pulled to make way for some pepper plants. The snow peas are coming in nicely and the strawberry harvest is just about done. I was hoping for a much larger harvest, but am happy we at least had a real harvest from our 2 year old patch.

I hope you will continue to visit this summer when you can! Expect to see a reduced post schedule here on The Self Sufficient HomeAcre for the summer season.

 

Featured Posts!

Each host will feature her own picks from the posts linked the previous week. That means your chances of being featured are even better! Visit each of our blogs to see if you were featured this week! (Don’t forget to link back to one of our blogs if you’d like to be featured!)

Small Footprint Family: 13 Ways to Create a Sustainable Food System

 

Five Little Homesteaders: Get to Know Your Squash

 

Learning and Yearning: 5 Culinary Herbs that Grow in Partial Shade

 

 

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• Family friendly posts only. ‘Nuff said
• Please, no posts dedicated to advertising products.
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