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As the sun sets on the sprawling fields, the sight of crops swaying gently to the rhythm of a cool evening breeze brings a sigh of relief. Harvest season is nigh, the fruits of our labor ready to be reaped. A simple tally of random numbers dances in our heads, stirring hope anew. With every kernel and blade heaved, we inch closer to the finish line, closer to solvency. We echo the silent prayer whispered under the breath of many, "Let it be, let it be so."
The struggle to sustain a farm and the relentless financial stress it brings is all too familiar to many farm wives. The bills pile up as the debt grows, a suffocating weight that has left us gasping for air. It's been a long, turbulent ride, one that has tested our resilience and endurance.
However, last year, we've embarked on a journey of simplification and refining, both in our personal lives and our businesses. The past years have taught us invaluable lessons about sustainability and the importance of a manageable pace. The farm, like life, is not a sprint; it's a carefully navigated journey that requires patience, foresight, and adaptation.
We've realized that we cannot maintain the breakneck pace we'd set for ourselves continuously. It's a race that eventually left us spent, devoid of the very energy needed to nurture our farms and families. We found the courage to simplify. In simplifying, we discovered that less often leads to more - more time, more energy, more freedom.
Simplifying, however, doesn't mean giving up or doing less; it implies making smart, calculated decisions. It's about optimizing our resources, our time, our energy, and our investments. It's about understanding what works for us and discarding what doesn't.
Just as we weed out our fields, we must root out the distractions and impediments in our lives. It's about refining our practices, embracing efficient farming techniques, and making full use of available technologies and resources. All this, in pursuit of an elusive, yet very achievable dream: financial freedom.
As we enter this planting season, let us remember that we are not alone. Together, we can cross that finish line, chipping away at the towering mountain of debt, bit by bit. Let this be the year we break free from the shackles of financial strain and breathe in the air of stability. Let this be the year of simplifying and refining.
Let it be. Let it be so.
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As I've grown in my journey as an entrepreneur, mom, gardener, and livestock owner, I struggled to find a planner that met my needs and kept me organized. So, I MADE MY OWN. You can look at it on the link below and buy it on amazon below.
Don't want the whole calendar part? I got you! I pulled the gardening and animal care pages out and put them in a book all their own.
Starting to garden doesn't have to be hard! I gathered all the tips I've learned over my gardening learning curve and made them into a simple course to jump start your gardening your life.
Supporting Your Family Naturally from the Inside Out community!! This community is for Mommas, looking to Support Your Family from Nature for Wellness. Tips range from nutrition, herbals, detoxing, natural cleaning, and essential oils. Basically, all the things I’ve learned slowly over the past 5+ years of my journey. We have moved off Facebook, to better serve our community and be able to discuss openly options for providing for your family in the best way possible.
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You are what you eat, as the saying goes. And that’s true to a certain extent. As a working mom, you are always on the go and it can be hard to make time for healthy meals. You may not realize it, but the food you are putting into your body has the power to heal or harm you, impacting your overall health. Eating the right foods can help your body to function properly and to heal itself. But eating the wrong foods can make your body work harder or even harm it. So, how can you tell if the food you’re eating is helping or hurting you?
What you eat matters. The right foods can help your body to function properly and even help to fight off disease. However, the wrong foods can make your body work harder or even harm it. Here are some examples of how the right or wrong foods can affect your body:
Healing Foods
There are certain foods that have healing properties. For example, ginger is known to help with nausea and vomiting. Garlic has antimicrobial properties and can help to fight off infections. Honey has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties and can be used to treat wounds.
Harmful Foods
On the other hand, there are also foods that can be harmful to your body. For example, processed meats like hot dogs and deli meat have been linked to cancer. Refined carbohydrates like white bread and pasta can cause spikes in blood sugar levels. And sugary drinks like soda can lead to weight gain.
There are a few things to consider when determining whether the food you’re eating is good for you or not. One is the quality of the food. Is it fresh or processed? Processed foods are often high in sodium, sugar, and unhealthy fats. Fresh foods are typically better for you because they haven’t been treated with chemicals or other additives.
Another thing to consider is the quantity of the food. If you eat too much of anything, it’s not good for you. That’s why it’s important to eat in moderation and to be mindful of portion sizes.
The final thing to think about is how the food was prepared. fried foods, for example, are generally not as healthy as baked or grilled foods because they tend to be higher in fat and calories. So, if you’re trying to eat healthy, it’s important to be aware of how your food was cooked.
When it comes to determining whether the food you’re eating is good for you or not, there are a few things to consider. The quality of the food, the quantity of the food, and how the food was prepared all play a role in its overall healthfulness. By being mindful of these things, you can make sure that the food you’re putting into your body is doing more good than harm.
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If you're a working mom, you know that the lists never seem to end. There's the grocery list, the to-do list, the list of errands to run, the list of things to pack for your kid's school lunch... It can be overwhelming! And on top of all of that, you're expected to be productive at work and be a present, involved parent when you're at home. So how do you find the time to get everything done?
By getting organized and developing a good time management system, that's how! Here are some tips to get you started:
List Making
One of the best ways to get organized is to make lists. Lists help you keep track of what needs to be done and ensure that nothing gets forgotten. Whenever you think of something that needs to be done, add it to your list. You can keep a running list on your phone or in a notebook so that you can add to it whenever something comes up.
Time Blocking
Time blocking is a time management technique where you block off chunks of time on your calendar for specific tasks. For example, you might block off an hour in the morning for answering emails and another hour in the afternoon for returning phone calls. By breaking your day down into smaller chunks, you can make sure that you're using your time efficiently and getting things done.
Scheduling
Scheduling is another great way to stay organized and make sure that you're getting everything done. When you have a lot on your plate, it can be helpful to sit down and schedule out your week. That way, you'll know exactly what needs to be done when and can plan accordingly. If possible, try to schedule some buffer time into your week so that if something comes up or takes longer than expected, you're not thrown off course.
There's no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to time management. What works for one person might not work for another. The important thing is to find what works for you and stick with it. By making lists, blocking off time on your calendar, and scheduling out your week, you can take control of your time and start crossing items off of your ever-growing list!
As I've grown in my journey as an entrepreneur, mom, gardener, and livestock owner, I struggled to find a planner that met my needs and kept me organized. So I MADE MY OWN. You can take a look at it on the link blow and buy it on amazon below
Don't want the whole calendar part? I got you! I pulled the gardening and animal care pages out and put them in a book all their own.
Wanting a community to lean into? Join the FREE Helping Your Family Homestead for Food group! This community is for the Mommas, looking to stay home and raise their kids, but unsure how to keep everyone fed and make ends meet. I share tips from my journey from the office, to half the income and feeding my family from home, while maintaining good nourishing food. Tips include: gardening, bulk buying, caning,/preserving, livestock, homesteading, and home remedies. Your family is precious and this group is to help you gain the knowledge and tools to keep your family well and not reliant on outside professionals. Remedies and tips are easy and simple for the busy momma, time is precious after all, including pregnancy, birth, young kids, and illness. Trust your Momma gut again! This community offers the resources + community you need to help get started on your journey and prepare for whatever future you envision.
Starting to garden doesn't have to be hard! I gathered all the tips I've learned over my gardening learning curve and made them into a simple course to jump start your gardening your life.
Supporting Your Family Naturally From the Inside Out community!! This community is for the Mommas, looking to Support Your Family from Nature for Wellness. Tips range from nutrition, herbals, detoxing, natural cleaning, and essential oils. Basically all the things I’ve learned slowly over the past 5+ years if my journey. We have moved off Facebook, so to better serve our community and be able to discuss openly option for providing for your family in the best way possible.
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I've had 3 very different pregnancies. After the first traumatic birth, I learned better and how to care for my body naturally and prevent common pregnancy and birth problems before they arise. This quick course will get you the tools you need to have a naturally healthy pregnancy, labor, and delivery. My first pregnancy I had a normal western medicine all the things pregnancy. My second? I flipped to completely natural, no medicine. Bonus: Preventing Preeclampsia Without the Aspirin & Healing from Birth Trauma
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I used to think I was a patient person. I could work with kids of all kinds and never loose my cool. Then I had kids….I am not the most patient with kids who I am around all day every day. But you know who else I’ve never been patient with? Me.
I have understanding and time to let others grow and learn. Myself? I want to be good at whatever the skill is right now. That’s the perfectionist coming out.
Recently, I started feeding cattle on our family operation. Mind, this in not a new job to me. I spent one summer feeding cattle in a large feedlot about 9 years ago. And I was accurate and good at it. Now I am working with older equipment and a wagon instead of a truck, but I started slow! Like it took almost 3 hours to load, mix and feed one load. Yes the wagon takes a long time to mix, but most of that was operator.
As I was slowly loading, careful to not break anything, I caught myself comparing. Comparing to my husband, the normal feeder, and my 9 years ago self. Then I was making excuses, for why I was so slow. And then I stopped myself, after owning to my husband that the load was not very accurate. He told me “it’s ok. It’s your first load”.
I was starting to get frustrated I wasn’t faster. Then it dawned on me. You can’t compare yourself. You must be patient with the learning process. When I first started feeding, I was slow too. And then a week went by and I was faster.
It was a good check for me on what else am I not being patient within the journey? Then it dawned on me I am not patient with myself at all. My gut healing, nope. Want it faster. The growing business? Nope, wanted that going a year ago. The meat business? Nope, want the market, and supply now. My own rediscovering who I am? Absolutely not. I want to know now.
The truth is, if we don’t slow down and be patient with ourselves in the journey, we miss the valuable lessons to be learned. Growth happens in the journey, not the destination.
Stop comparing yourself to others journey. Be patient in your own journey and growth. You will bloom when you are ready and not before. Keep moving forward one step at a time.
As I've grown in my journey as an entrepreneur, mom, gardener, and livestock owner, I struggled to find a planner that met my needs and kept me organized. So I MADE MY OWN. You can take a look at it on the link blow and buy it on amazon below
Don't want the whole calendar part? I got you! I pulled the gardening and animal care pages out and put them in a book all their own.
Wanting a community to lean into? Join the FREE Helping Your Family Homestead for Food group! This community is for the Mommas, looking to stay home and raise their kids, but unsure how to keep everyone fed and make ends meet. I share tips from my journey from the office, to half the income and feeding my family from home, while maintaining good nourishing food. Tips include: gardening, bulk buying, caning,/preserving, livestock, homesteading, and home remedies. Your family is precious and this group is to help you gain the knowledge and tools to keep your family well and not reliant on outside professionals. Remedies and tips are easy and simple for the busy momma, time is precious after all, including pregnancy, birth, young kids, and illness. Trust your Momma gut again! This community offers the resources + community you need to help get started on your journey and prepare for whatever future you envision.
Starting to garden doesn't have to be hard! I gathered all the tips I've learned over my gardening learning curve and made them into a simple course to jump start your gardening your life.
Supporting Your Family Naturally From the Inside Out community!! This community is for the Mommas, looking to Support Your Family from Nature for Wellness. Tips range from nutrition, herbals, detoxing, natural cleaning, and essential oils. Basically all the things I’ve learned slowly over the past 5+ years if my journey. We have moved off Facebook, so to better serve our community and be able to discuss openly option for providing for your family in the best way possible.
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I've had 3 very different pregnancies. After the first traumatic birth, I learned better and how to care for my body naturally and prevent common pregnancy and birth problems before they arise. This quick course will get you the tools you need to have a naturally healthy pregnancy, labor, and delivery. My first pregnancy I had a normal western medicine all the things pregnancy. My second? I flipped to completely natural, no medicine. Bonus: Preventing Preeclampsia Without the Aspirin & Healing from Birth Trauma
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“I’m gonna sell the cows.”
I couldn’t believe my ears he loved the cows. We bought the cows, to help us build income. They made a way for us to come home to the farm. But at the same time, I had some relief and then guilt because of all the times in the past three years I’ve wished, for the cows to be gone. Usually on the nights I was alone again, or times plans changed because of the cows, and I was on my own again. Or I was staring at a stack of cow bills wondering how they were going to be paid.
I really did love the cows and knew he did too. So why sell now?
“We’ll keep 40-50 of the Corrientes’s but let everybody else go. That will give us enough to keep the beef business and they’ll be able to run on the small pasture. Maybe after harvest we’ll get some stockers. This will fix several of our problems.”
I couldn’t argue. I knew what the books look like, and I knew what feed costs were. As much as neither one of us wanted this. It was the best option to get in a better spot financially.
We have been handed a shaky foundation and were trying to fix it by building bigger and more diverse, covering our needs, and bringing in more income. But only to find ourselves spinning our wheels, out of time and money, and burnt out.
So here we are. Most of the cows will be gone by the end of the month. We’re restructuring, eliminating, and rebuilding a sturdy foundation. We’re simplifying our operation to better accommodate the labor we have.
When a foundation is crumbling, eventually you must stop building above, and fix the foundation, or the entire building will crumble. That is exactly what we are doing. We’re fixing our foundation, making it square and sturdy again.
One day we may grow again, but only time will tell.
As I've grown in my journey as an entrepreneur, mom, gardener, and livestock owner, I struggled to find a planner that met my needs and kept me organized. So I MADE MY OWN. You can take a look at it on the link blow and buy it on amazon below
Don't want the whole calendar part? I got you! I pulled the gardening and animal care pages out and put them in a book all their own.
Wanting a community to lean into? Join the FREE Helping Your Family Homestead for Food group! This community is for the Mommas, looking to stay home and raise their kids, but unsure how to keep everyone fed and make ends meet. I share tips from my journey from the office, to half the income and feeding my family from home, while maintaining good nourishing food. Tips include: gardening, bulk buying, caning,/preserving, livestock, homesteading, and home remedies. Your family is precious and this group is to help you gain the knowledge and tools to keep your family well and not reliant on outside professionals. Remedies and tips are easy and simple for the busy momma, time is precious after all, including pregnancy, birth, young kids, and illness. Trust your Momma gut again! This community offers the resources + community you need to help get started on your journey and prepare for whatever future you envision.
Starting to garden doesn't have to be hard! I gathered all the tips I've learned over my gardening learning curve and made them into a simple course to jump start your gardening your life.
Supporting Your Family Naturally From the Inside Out community!! This community is for the Mommas, looking to Support Your Family from Nature for Wellness. Tips range from nutrition, herbals, detoxing, natural cleaning, and essential oils. Basically all the things I’ve learned slowly over the past 5+ years if my journey. We have moved off Facebook, so to better serve our community and be able to discuss openly option for providing for your family in the best way possible.
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I've had 3 very different pregnancies. After the first traumatic birth, I learned better and how to care for my body naturally and prevent common pregnancy and birth problems before they arise. This quick course will get you the tools you need to have a naturally healthy pregnancy, labor, and delivery. My first pregnancy I had a normal western medicine all the things pregnancy. My second? I flipped to completely natural, no medicine. Bonus: Preventing Preeclampsia Without the Aspirin & Healing from Birth Trauma
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Sometimes in life we must do hard things. Sometimes the journey is harder than we expect. The climb is longer and the mountain higher than you thought when you started. It’s in the middle of these times you begin to wonder if the dream you had is worth it.
It is good to dream big. But what happens when that dream seems unreachable, and harder than you expected?
I really don’t have any advice for you, but I am here to tell you, that you are not alone. We are each in the middle of our own storm, but I’m right there with you.
The goals my husband and I have for the family farm is huge. The mountain we are climbing is higher than either of us imagined. The stress of it all has taken its toll on us both. My body has physically broken down and it has been a slow process repairing it.
During this storm however, God has been working in my heart. He’s been leading me back to Him and reminding me that he has it all under control. He knows the end, and as much as it frustrates me not knowing, I must trust Him in the journey. Letting Him shape my heart.
I’ve learned to care for my health, not just everyone else. I’ve learned to seek out help when needed. And stand up for me, changing providers when needed.
One key is to stick to your morals to guide you. Admitting when you're wrong. Asking God for direction, and always doing what is right.
I know this month has been different kind of blogs, but it’s what has been on my mind lately. Here’s to you. Going through the hard stuff too ❤️
As I've grown in my journey as an entrepreneur, mom, gardener, and livestock owner, I struggled to find a planner that met my needs and kept me organized. So I MADE MY OWN. You can take a look at it on the link blow and buy it on amazon below
Don't want the whole calendar part? I got you! I pulled the gardening and animal care pages out and put them in a book all their own.
Wanting a community to lean into? Join the FREE Helping Your Family Homestead for Food group! This community is for the Mommas, looking to stay home and raise their kids, but unsure how to keep everyone fed and make ends meet. I share tips from my journey from the office, to half the income and feeding my family from home, while maintaining good nourishing food. Tips include: gardening, bulk buying, caning,/preserving, livestock, homesteading, and home remedies. Your family is precious and this group is to help you gain the knowledge and tools to keep your family well and not reliant on outside professionals. Remedies and tips are easy and simple for the busy momma, time is precious after all, including pregnancy, birth, young kids, and illness. Trust your Momma gut again! This community offers the resources + community you need to help get started on your journey and prepare for whatever future you envision.
Starting to garden doesn't have to be hard! I gathered all the tips I've learned over my gardening learning curve and made them into a simple course to jump start your gardening your life.
Supporting Your Family Naturally From the Inside Out community!! This community is for the Mommas, looking to Support Your Family from Nature for Wellness. Tips range from nutrition, herbals, detoxing, natural cleaning, and essential oils. Basically all the things I’ve learned slowly over the past 5+ years if my journey. We have moved off Facebook, so to better serve our community and be able to discuss openly option for providing for your family in the best way possible.
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I've had 3 very different pregnancies. After the first traumatic birth, I learned better and how to care for my body naturally and prevent common pregnancy and birth problems before they arise. This quick course will get you the tools you need to have a naturally healthy pregnancy, labor, and delivery. My first pregnancy I had a normal western medicine all the things pregnancy. My second? I flipped to completely natural, no medicine. Bonus: Preventing Preeclampsia Without the Aspirin & Healing from Birth Trauma
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Ever thought about what you would write to yourself looking back? As I’ve reflected on the past decade, there’s a few things that stand out. And no way the 20-year-old me would listen 🙃 but I wrote one anyway.
Dear 20-year-old me,
If I told you everything that is going to happen to you in the next 10 years you wouldn’t believe it. The way you think your future is heading, is going to change. You won’t go to vet school, but you will get a masters. You will have some of the biggest heart breaks and biggest blessings in the next decade.
That guy you’re dating. Ya you’ll marry him. And you two will walk through what feels like fire together. You’ll fight. You’ll lose touch. But you will come back to each other. You’ll learn to fight for each other. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it.
You’ll get married, have kids, but your career won’t look the way you currently picture it. It will change a few times. And you’ll learn to adapt. You’ll learn more than you ever dreamed about human nutrition and health. Your health will struggle. You’ll have a few surgeries.
You will lose your identity, but don’t worry, you’ll remember who you are again. You’ll lose faith in old systems and find healing in new systems.
You’ll lean into God so hard at time you can hear him breath. You’ll scream at him so hard you cry. You’ll ignore him. But He’ll always be there waiting for you.
You’ll love. You’ll stress. The stress will almost kill you at times. And right at the end of your 20s you’ll finally realize you must handle stress better and start making changes.
Truth be told your 20s are going to be the hardest decade yet. But you’ll make it. You’ll change. You’ll become stronger.
Here’s to the next decade. The best is yet to come. ❤️❤️
As I've grown in my journey as an entrepreneur, mom, gardener, and livestock owner, I struggled to find a planner that met my needs and kept me organized. So I MADE MY OWN. You can take a look at it on the link blow and buy it on amazon below
Don't want the whole calendar part? I got you! I pulled the gardening and animal care pages out and put them in a book all their own.
Wanting a community to lean into? Join the FREE Helping Your Family Homestead for Food group! This community is for the Mommas, looking to stay home and raise their kids, but unsure how to keep everyone fed and make ends meet. I share tips from my journey from the office, to half the income and feeding my family from home, while maintaining good nourishing food. Tips include: gardening, bulk buying, caning,/preserving, livestock, homesteading, and home remedies. Your family is precious and this group is to help you gain the knowledge and tools to keep your family well and not reliant on outside professionals. Remedies and tips are easy and simple for the busy momma, time is precious after all, including pregnancy, birth, young kids, and illness. Trust your Momma gut again! This community offers the resources + community you need to help get started on your journey and prepare for whatever future you envision.
Starting to garden doesn't have to be hard! I gathered all the tips I've learned over my gardening learning curve and made them into a simple course to jump start your gardening your life.
Supporting Your Family Naturally From the Inside Out community!! This community is for the Mommas, looking to Support Your Family from Nature for Wellness. Tips range from nutrition, herbals, detoxing, natural cleaning, and essential oils. Basically all the things I’ve learned slowly over the past 5+ years if my journey. We have moved off Facebook, so to better serve our community and be able to discuss openly option for providing for your family in the best way possible.
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I've had 3 very different pregnancies. After the first traumatic birth, I learned better and how to care for my body naturally and prevent common pregnancy and birth problems before they arise. This quick course will get you the tools you need to have a naturally healthy pregnancy, labor, and delivery. My first pregnancy I had a normal western medicine all the things pregnancy. My second? I flipped to completely natural, no medicine. Bonus: Preventing Preeclampsia Without the Aspirin & Healing from Birth Trauma
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Time management is huge on a farmstead. As a momma who is managing the home, kids, garden, and animals, you must manage your time to get anything done. I am constantly on the go during the day. Nothing annoys me more than doing nothing when there are things that need to be done. Below are some of my top time management tips for the busy momma.
#1 Know how long tasks will really take. Write it down if you need to. If you have never done the task with kids, take the time it would take you previously and double it. Seriously, that is the best way to guess. Usually, it’s about right too. If you get done sooner, congratulations! You can move to the next task.
#2 Write down what needs to be done. This can be a running list you add as you think about it, or in a planner. My planner has a space for the daily schedule, business must do’s, all the other to do’s, and personal care (yes I have to write down to care for myself).
#3 Prioritize what must be done, and what you would like to get done. Again, this can be written on your list or on your planner. Writing it down helps to quickly decide which task to accomplish.
#4 Schedule time for your ‘work.’ Whether it is a side hustle or tasks you cannot safely do with kids in tow. Assign those tasks to that time slot, then do them when the time comes.
I use these four steps every day. It starts with writing the list down either in the evening or first thing in the morning. One of my work times is first thing in the morning. Having that list ready to go marked with what needs done in the ‘work’ time, helps me to not fumble around and waste the morning.
Over the years, I have gotten a better idea of how long tasks take and can tackle them as time allows. I usually have 15 min or less tasks on my list as well, that I can quickly do as time allows.
As I've grown in my journey as an entrepreneur, mom, gardener, and livestock owner, I struggled to find a planner that met my needs and kept me organized. So I MADE MY OWN. You can take a look at it on the link blow and buy it on amazon below
Don't want the whole calendar part? I got you! I pulled the gardening and animal care pages out and put them in a book all their own.
Wanting a community to lean into? Join the FREE Helping Your Family Homestead for Food group! This community is for the Mommas, looking to stay home and raise their kids, but unsure how to keep everyone fed and make ends meet. I share tips from my journey from the office, to half the income and feeding my family from home, while maintaining good nourishing food. Tips include: gardening, bulk buying, caning,/preserving, livestock, homesteading, and home remedies. Your family is precious and this group is to help you gain the knowledge and tools to keep your family well and not reliant on outside professionals. Remedies and tips are easy and simple for the busy momma, time is precious after all, including pregnancy, birth, young kids, and illness. Trust your Momma gut again! This community offers the resources + community you need to help get started on your journey and prepare for whatever future you envision.
Starting to garden doesn't have to be hard! I gathered all the tips I've learned over my gardening learning curve and made them into a simple course to jump start your gardening your life.
Supporting Your Family Naturally From the Inside Out community!! This community is for the Mommas, looking to Support Your Family from Nature for Wellness. Tips range from nutrition, herbals, detoxing, natural cleaning, and essential oils. Basically all the things I’ve learned slowly over the past 5+ years if my journey. We have moved off Facebook, so to better serve our community and be able to discuss openly option for providing for your family in the best way possible.
Join the FREE Community
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I've had 3 very different pregnancies. After the first traumatic birth, I learned better and how to care for my body naturally and prevent common pregnancy and birth problems before they arise. This quick course will get you the tools you need to have a naturally healthy pregnancy, labor, and delivery. My first pregnancy I had a normal western medicine all the things pregnancy. My second? I flipped to completely natural, no medicine. Bonus: Preventing Preeclampsia Without the Aspirin & Healing from Birth Trauma
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The line between afternoon and evening is a little blurred on the farm. I define evening as supper and after. So that usually starts around 7pm. Making the evening short and the afternoon time long.
We try to eat supper as a family, sometimes that means taking supper to the field and riding a few rounds with daddy. After supper, the dishes are cleared, and the kitchen cleaned up. The kids usually have a bit of play time with Daddy before bed.
I make sure the kitchen is clean and ready for breakfast the next morning. I have found that keeping the kitchen, my room and bath tidy help me to focus and deal with the rest of the house as needed. Those three rooms are the first and last rooms I see every day.
Kids are headed to bed around 8:30p, with teeth brushing, pjs, and stories. After the baby is asleep, I slip outside to check the animals. The evenings are so cool and is a lovely time to take in the air, relax, and enjoy the stars.
I make sure all the birds are in the hen house, the ducks are notorious for trying to stay out all night. Take a quick walk around making sure all the waters are filled up and picking up any eggs I missed earlier. When there are baby chicks in the nursery, I peek on them and check the temperature in the barn, adjusting the heat lamps as needed.
Once all the animals are settled, I head to the house. It is usually dark by now. Sometimes stopping to gaze at the Milky Way on the way, it is so clear in the summertime here.
After the evening walk though, I tend to plug my phone in and not look at it unless needed. I have found avoiding the screen for an hour before bed helps me fall asleep faster. I clean up whatever didn’t happen before the kid’s bedtime and get ready for bed. Typically, I’ll read for a little bit before falling asleep.
The evening is short, but a good evening routine sets us up better for a good start to the morning. At least usually.
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A Summer Afternoon on our Farmstead
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If you’ve ever been on a farm, you know there is no siesta time in the summer. There should be though. After lunch play time happens for the kids. Usually back outside, we basically live out there in the summer. I work a bit more in the gardens, usually harvesting, or on a project as able in the heat.
Mid afternoon is nap time! The most glorious time of the day for momma. The baby for sure goes down for a nap. The middle child sometimes. It is heavenly if they all take a nap at the same time. I can power out computer work, or the jobs I cannot safely do with them, while they nap.
On the supper hot days, I will often load the kids up and run errands. Paying bills, going to the feed store, getting groceries, parts run, anything to stay where it’s cool for a while.
After naps, play in the yard continues. Usually, water is involved somehow. I water the flowers around the house, clean out the dogs’ pool and the water table, then refill them. If the big kids want in the pool, I find something I can do pool side. Snaping beans, washing veggies, braiding garlic, etc. Occasionally I’ll even grab a book and read it.
During the high heat days 95+ feel days, I walk down to the barns and check the animals, making sure no one is overheating, everyone still has cold water. Sometimes I’ll mist the pens or add ice to waters or hose the horses off. Most of the chickens are under the trees where there is shade and a bit of breeze. The water birds are having the time of their life in the water then to the shade and back again.
Afternoon chores involve picking up all the eggs, maybe going on an egg hunt. Refilling waters and double-checking feeders. I set alarms on my phone to remind me when it is chore time and when it is time to go start supper. Otherwise, I get busy working on something and soon its dark and everyone is hangry.
Afternoons tend to be much more laid back and variable than our mornings. Mostly because I have designed it that way. I stack our daily activities in the morning, giving us the freedom to do whatever is needed in the afternoon.
As I've grown in my journey as an entrepreneur, mom, gardener, and livestock owner, I struggled to find a planner that met my needs and kept me organized. So I MADE MY OWN. You can take a look at it on the link blow and buy it on amazon below
Don't want the whole calendar part? I got you! I pulled the gardening and animal care pages out and put them in a book all their own.
Wanting a community to lean into? Join the FREE Helping Your Family Homestead for Food group! This community is for the Mommas, looking to stay home and raise their kids, but unsure how to keep everyone fed and make ends meet. I share tips from my journey from the office, to half the income and feeding my family from home, while maintaining good nourishing food. Tips include: gardening, bulk buying, caning,/preserving, livestock, homesteading, and home remedies. Your family is precious and this group is to help you gain the knowledge and tools to keep your family well and not reliant on outside professionals. Remedies and tips are easy and simple for the busy momma, time is precious after all, including pregnancy, birth, young kids, and illness. Trust your Momma gut again! This community offers the resources + community you need to help get started on your journey and prepare for whatever future you envision.
Starting to garden doesn't have to be hard! I gathered all the tips I've learned over my gardening learning curve and made them into a simple course to jump start your gardening your life.
Supporting Your Family Naturally From the Inside Out community!! This community is for the Mommas, looking to Support Your Family from Nature for Wellness. Tips range from nutrition, herbals, detoxing, natural cleaning, and essential oils. Basically all the things I’ve learned slowly over the past 5+ years if my journey. We have moved off Facebook, so to better serve our community and be able to discuss openly option for providing for your family in the best way possible.
Join the FREE Community
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I've had 3 very different pregnancies. After the first traumatic birth, I learned better and how to care for my body naturally and prevent common pregnancy and birth problems before they arise. This quick course will get you the tools you need to have a naturally healthy pregnancy, labor, and delivery. My first pregnancy I had a normal western medicine all the things pregnancy. My second? I flipped to completely natural, no medicine. Bonus: Preventing Preeclampsia Without the Aspirin & Healing from Birth Trauma
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