Summer Homestead

My homesteading mother continues to take steps away from mainstream consumerism into the farm she has always dreamed of. The gardens continues to grow and expand, producing food to fill our hungry bellies and our culinary creativity.

A little research and practice has lead us to produce other essentials from within our own home. Somedays one might think we are running a bakery because of all the bread we'd be kneading and the sweet smells wafting out of the oven. Whole wheat bagels take the top prize from our bready-goodness, and served with our handmade butter, you wouldn't move out either! ;)

Homemade bread, homemade butter, homemade bread bag

Pasta Attempts

Whole Wheat Bagels

We've also streamlined a beauty regime complete with homemade soaps in assorted style, yogurt and oat face masks, and almond oil based hair products for the frizzy curls. We've stitched up some sweet duds in the form of aprons for friends, and produce bags for the market.

Handmade soaps~!

Mom modeling my first sewing project~

Tara Kenyon and our summer rituals of tea, raw foods, and ZUMBA~!

Binghamton Farmers Market

While potatoes grow in buckets, and zucchini crawls down the hill, the newest addition includes chickens bawking in the back yard. A coop built with collaboration between, Father, Mother, and Friend houses the six laying hens. The summer was filled with evenings of Farm TV; yes, watching the chickens behavior in the backyard beats “The Bachelor” hands down. A memorable evening of testing the theory of chicken instinct to return to the coop come nightfall was proven wrong at their young age. Chickens are not smart, not on bit. One little lady found the door, while the other five were turned around. They ended up stacked one chicken on top of the other, between the coop and yard fence. The brave evening of chicken fetching marks the day Mom and I became real chicken farmers. Now, the ladies are producing eggs, and Farmer Debbie is producing fresh, free range quiche from the hills of Binghamton.

Kayaks on Quaker Lake

Hey Mom, you're my inspiration~! Thanks for a great summer!!