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Part IV – What to do with all that food Along with growing all this food comes the question of what to do with it. Harvests normally last a few weeks with all that glorious fruit ripening at once. Even if you share, sell and eat fresh, there will likely be too much at once,…
Part III – For the Birds! Deciding to keep chickens is a decision akin to getting married. One must never make the decision lightly. All of those vows you take … they’ll come back to haunt you! I didn’t want them. I was adamant. I had been responsible for chickens as a kid, and was…
Part II – What we’re Planting Planting isn’t a new thing for us. We have always had gardens of some kind or other. Even when we were dirt poor, that dirt was put to use growing tomatoes, broccoli, and eggplants. When our daughter was young, we thought we had failed spectacularly at growing cherry tomatoes…
Things are always growing at Off The Rails Homestead. This week it’s an orchard, we’ve eliminated massive amounts of Japanese Privet and random viny things to make room for new fruit trees. This place already has mature pecan, oak, and pine trees that we don’t want to get get rid of. They provide a beautiful…
You wouldn’t think a lot could be done with a suburban 1/2 acre homestead. You’d be wrong. Here, we fully embrace the philosophy of “do what you can with what you’ve got”. Six years ago, we landed in Sumter, SC and bought a little place beside the railroad tracks. We cleared out overgrowth and removed…