A look into our second year of raising pigs for meat on our small homestead in Maine.
Tag: Series
Homestead Update: March 2019
All the Homestead Happenings for March 2019
Homestead Update – January & February 2019
A recap for the months of January and February of 2019 at Gillis Gardens, LLC.
The Cost of: Beginner Beekeeping
A Breakdown of our First Purchase of Beekeeping Equipment and How Much It Cost.
The Cost of Raising Pigs for Meat
A cost analysis of raising your own pork for personal consumption.
The Cost of Raising Chickens For Meat
This was a summer of firsts- and one of the most important ones was our first time raising our own chickens for meat. We went big, raising enough for not just our expanding family for a whole year, but also raising a years worth for my parents. We are very excited about how the whole…
Book Review – Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs – A Beginners Guide
This book is a must have for all beginning herbalists. I do not believe this is an exaggeration in any way. Rosemary Gladstar is an old school herbalist- she was taught by the generations before her. The introduction of her book details her life growing up on a farm and the meat of the guide…
Weekend Warriors- The Month Of March
Its been a fairly crazy month here on the Gillis Homestead- We’ve been boiling down sap into syrup all month. But the temps are rising and with rain in the forecast instead of snow (FINALLYTHANKGOD) its probably coming towards a swift end. We’re happy with the amount we’ve produced tho. Even tho we lost at…
Weekend Warriors- February 2018
holy. So the big shebang this WHOLE month has been about the shed project. Specifically the kitchen and 1/2 bathroom portion of the shed. Last time I updated, my dad, MrWard, and the hubby were pulling out all the old nasty insulation and fixing a very bad roof leak that had been causing water damage…
