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Our mini horses enjoying the snowy morning ❄️❄️❄️ Cooper Cooper and Penny Thanks so much!!

Looking down the fence line of our horse paddock. I thought the angles looked interesting. Thanks

Just thought this looked cool. Went for a walk in our woods this morning and this just screamed photo!!! Thanks for stopping!!

Our lane from the main road back to our house is about a quarter of mile long. The southern foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in south central Pennsylvania is where we call home. Bears do make an

All organic ... non - gmo... locally grown 15 cans of applesauce... one cracked in the canner and one was devoured by my kiddos while it was still warm🍎🍏

I have never planted sweet potatoes in my life. I figured this year was year to give it a shot. I got my inspiration from Danny of Deep South Homestead. Watching him fill up a loader bucket on a tractor

This past Saturday, over the Labor Day weekend, we spent the day in the kitchen canning. Got up early and freshly picked a bunch of Roma tomatoes, cored them and blanched them to remove the skins. I won't

What a wonderful opportunity to get a free air show while visiting some friends. Dear friends of ours had invited us for a backyard dinner, a once a year event where the adults sit and talk while our kids

We have been in need of a barn cat for sometime now. So a friend of ours knew of a cat that needed a home. She was an outdoor cat named Cleo. So we said we would take her. We kept her in our barn and she

We have several laying hens here on our homestead. We get plenty of awesome eggs. But... then production started to drop off ....why ??? Well, I found that a few hens had "flown the coop" and

After a quick rain storm a few days ago, I caught these shots of a beautiful double rainbow over a farm field. Have a great one !!

We took a family trip up to Howard County, Maryland to gather baskets of blackberries and boxes of tree-ripe peaches. The farm we visited boasts several varieties of white and yellow peaches, and we chose

About a week ago, I posted some photos of some newborn rabbits. Nearly hairless, eyes still shut and barely able to move. One week later and a dramatic difference. A kiss from momma🐰 Amazing how quickly

A beautiful Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on our butterfly bush. Truth in advertising 🤓 Thanks for stopping by !!

When doe rabbits get pregnant they wiil line their nests with their own fur. They usually do this a week or two in advance of the births. This is helpful to me, the steward of these creatures, because

I got back from a run yesterday and went straight to the garden in my backyard, where I like to put the breaks on my sweat downpour before I head inside the house. All of the carrot tops were huge but

I wasn't always such an avid gardener. But ... the more I read about GMO's, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, etc., the more I know that it has to be better to grow as much of your own food as you can.

Just a few shots of the barn art at our homestead. Hope you all enjoy 👨🏻‍🌾 This one would have Wranglerstar in a tizzy😳 This Claddagh weathervane shows my Irish heritage. It was a gift from my sister

Last year I decided to build a rabbit hutch.  As with all my projects, I sketched the general design with the desired dimensions on graph paper and built it from the plans in my head using my sketch

I had no clue what this was until I got home from the hike where I photographed it. My wife and I took a 3-mile hike late this afternoon on the Union Transportation Trail (UTT) in Upper Freehold Township,