How To Keep Mosquitoes From Biting Your Dog

Let’s talk about summer and Alaska’s mosquitoes.

Summer is the one season I don’t enjoy having an outhouse. You’d think it would be winter, but you can make a winter outhouse comfortable (blue board as a seat, for one). There’s no being comfortable in an outhouse swarming with mosquitoes and getting bit on a bare butt. This is also the season where our dogs spend the most time inside. Yes, they often sleep inside year round. But we have huskies, and they enjoy hanging out and playing in the snow. Sometimes they won’t come inside because the wood stove makes the cabin too hot for them! Continue reading “How To Keep Mosquitoes From Biting Your Dog”

A Greenhouse And A Garden

We’ve been keeping ourselves busy with this gorgeous sunny weather we’ve been having here. From cutting in the driveway to where the new cabin will go and picking our building spot, to building a greenhouse and prepping the garden space. We’ve even been having hotdogs and smores over the fire as we slowly burn our slash pile in our new fire pit! Continue reading “A Greenhouse And A Garden”

Living Off Grid During A Global Pandemic

I really tried to avoid writing this post. I feel a little annoyed at jumping on the ‘pandemic wagon, ” as it seems everyone is trying to cash in on our crazy new reality. But I have been asked so many times lately about how this has affected our lives. I thought I’d lay out all the changes here: Continue reading “Living Off Grid During A Global Pandemic”

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Diversifying Our Forest:
Planting 1,000+ Trees

One of our goals for 2019 and goals for 2020 has been planting more trees. Rather than just adding more Birch and Spruce I have been hard at work researching what kinds of trees we should plant, where we should plant them, and what they will provide for us. I have chosen each to help diversify our current property use and be part of a healthy ecosystem. Diversifying our forest will help it’s carbon capture abilities, as well as it’s ability to withstand disease and insects. Continue reading “Diversifying Our Forest:
Planting 1,000+ Trees”

Giveaway:
Spring Homestead Giveaway

Welcome to the Spring Homestead Giveaway!

Beginning on 3/20/20 at 6 am and ending on 3/29/20 at 11:59 pm (Central Time Zone). The total retail value of the grand prize is $407.86! Good luck everyone!

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Enter for a chance to win the grand prize package or one of our runner up prizes!

Here’s what you could win:

Total value of the Grand Prize for this giveaway is $407.86 for one winner…

6 Prizes with an approximate value of $10 each for our runner-up winners and

1 Prize with an approximate value of $13 for 1 runner-up winner!

Check out the links for more about each product, and for more about each of the giveaway sponsors!

Please Note: One winner will take the main prize package and 6 runner-up winners will receive a ‘mini-homesteader’ prize package!

Entry at the bottom of this page!

Free access to Our Inspired Roots Academy for 3 months from

Our Inspired Roots

Gardeners’ Hand Salve from

The Self Sufficient HomeAcre

(a surprise gift to 6 additional entrants!)

The Farm Girl’s Guide to Preserving the Harvest from

A Farm Girl In The Making

Handcrafted stirring spoon from

Unexplained Underfoot Objects

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A signed copy of my book Where The Wild Things Grow

from us here at Sled Dog Slow

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A harvest apron from

Rockin W Homestead

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Women’s Fabric Gardener Touchscreen Gloves from

The Self Sufficient HomeAcre

 

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A Cobra weeding tool from

The Reid Homestead

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The Art of Making Herbal Tea for Pleasure & Health from

Healing Harvest Homestead

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A Hori Hori knife from

Family Growing Pains

 

 

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The Do It Yourself Homestead Book from

Little Frugal Homestead

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The Beginner’s Guide to Raising Chickens from

The Self Sufficient HomeAcre

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A Pulley Clothesline Kit from

The Not So Modern Housewife

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Garden Starter Pack and Herb Starter Pack from

Mary’s Heirloom Seeds

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Your choice of bamboo cutting board from

Seeds For Generations

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Beginning Beekeeper’s Book and jar of Honey from

My Homestead Life