Homestead Blog Hop 550

Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop!

“God makes vegetables grow in my garden, I’m so glad”

There’s a little children’s song that I probably can’t remember properly, but the message is running through my mind. I’ve spent some good time out of doors over the last week or two just digging and planting.

Now, we are getting plenty of gentle Spring rain, and I’m trusting it will do its work to make our garden grow.

I have really enjoyed my garden time, mostly because our weather has been so mild. Breezy, cool days made working outside a joy. I had plenty of feline help to dig up what I had just planted, and they also do their part in the fertilizing department.

Here’s to a productive garden!

We also got our first berries this week!

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I planted lots of tomatoes of many colors and flavors, several rows of red potatoes, herbs, squash, eggplant, onions, and more. I snuck in a few flowers, but thankfully, I have plenty of perennials blooming from before. I’m looking forward to our garden, and don’t even mind the weeding if the weather is not too hot.

Today I am canning butternut squash. We have stored them all winter and I find that sometimes the thought of tackling one from start to finish is daunting, so I’m just getting them into jars for easy, ready usage.

Tell me what is happening on your homestead lately!

Have a great day!

Laurie

Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: real food recipes, farm animals, crafts, DIY, how-to’s, gardening, anything from-scratch, natural home/health, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, natural remedies, essential oils, & more! Basically, anything related to homesteading.

Meet Your Hosts!

Follow Their Blogs

Natasha – Houseful of Nicholes (Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram)

Laurie – Ridge Haven Homestead (Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram)

Liz – The Cape Coop (Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter | Instagram)

Kelly – Simple Life Mom (Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram)

FEATURED POSTS from the Last Homestead Blog Hop

Each week we take turns choosing three posts to feature. Each post will be shared on all social media platforms by all of the hosts! Here are the features from Last Week’s Hop:

1. How to Build your First Vegetable Garden from Walking on Sunshine Recipes

2. Penny’s Vintage Home: Rose Garden from Penny’s Treasures

3. Curried Mince Cheese Jaffles from Esme Salon

Congrats! Feel free to grab the featured on button for your post.

Just right click and ‘save image as…‘

Guidelines for this Get-Together:

1. Click on the “Add your Link” Button below and add a great image of your project or recipe. Make sure you link to the page of your family friendly post – not the main page of your blog.
2. Link up to three posts each week.
3. Try to visit at least a few other blogs at the party. Be sure to leave a comment to let them know you stopped by.
4. Link your post back to the Homestead Blog Hop. If the hop isn’t linked to your post then you cannot be featured. All featured posts will be shared on all hosts’ social media channels.
5. Please link up posts that you haven’t linked to the hop before. You are welcome to link old posts from your blog.
6. By joining the party, you are giving the hosts permission to use one photo from your post with a link back to your site if it is selected as one of next week’s Features.
7. This is a family-friendly link up meant to inspire and motivate the homesteader in all of us.

Let the Party Begin!

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Follow all your hosts on Pinterest and send me a message that you’d like to be added to our Homestead Blog Hop group board. The only rule is to only add posts that you’ve also added here.