As we move from Odom’s Idle Acres in Barnesville, Georgia to Pink Hill, North Carolina and our own little plot of dirt, the one thing that we intend on intensifying (even while downsizing) is our goal of self-sufficiency. We’re not vegans or even vegetarians so we have to think about our source for milk, eggs, [...]
(The following post is about our experience making a cob oven. We built in the middle of the summer and that presented a multitude of problems. But today we fired it up and it worked and we are getting ready to have homemade pizza for lunch. So it does work. The construction details have been [...]
I read a lot of blog posts in the course of a week. I would like to say that I keep up with my reader each day carefully going through each post and gleaning valuable information from each one. But I don’t. I typically let them build up and then have a marathon of browsing [...]
It may not mean much to anyone else but crowds are cheering and a ticker-tape parade is planned here at Odom’s Idle Acres. Why, you ask? Because we have taken neo-homesteading to a new level (for us). For almost two years now we have been gardening, growing, planting, picking, harvesting, canning, etc. But nearly 4 [...]
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After a long week at work I was ready to get out and join Pan Saturday morning for some garden work. The weather looked to be promising and we had days ago decided to give up on the old adage about waiting till after Good Friday to plant or whatever that colloquialism is. We started [...]
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