Baby It’s Cold Outside

High 34  Low 26   Clear, cold and crisp!   It’s the end of November 2011 and baby it’s cold outside! I spent the morning breaking ice on the animal’s water feeders and making sure everyone has adequate bedding to keep them warm. I hung white tarps up on the outside of the chicken run to [...]

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Take Yourself Seriously

    I’d like to share this resource for all of you out there that are freelance writers or niche bloggers. http://30queries30days.com   Okay, Let me get totally non-sexy here. I want to diverge from the normal topics. I know this is a homesteading site but I want to spend a bit of time writing [...]

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Creating a Cooperative Community

Support our family farm by purchasing items that you would normally use anyway. Completely synthetic ingredient-free, handmade skin, body and hair care products. SongCroft Naturals www.songcroftnaturals.com We have lots of special holiday offers and ship all over the country. Community cooperatives can take many forms. There are food co-ops, educational co-ops, tool shares, lending libraries and [...]

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It’s 11/11/11! Thank you Keven Elliff!

“Learning to delegate is part of being self-sufficient and sustainable.” 34 Degrees F  Mostly clear with some clouds. Light showers. It’s a good day here on SongCroft. First of all, it’s 11/11/11. This hasn’t happened since 1911. Interesting! Also, you may have noticed that our website is back up and even better than before.  Well, [...]

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Our Little Homestead in the Fall

If you would like to support our farm by purchasing some amazing personal care products that you probably need anyway, www.songcroftnaturals.com is our retail website. We will have all 35 products there shortly! Check our Facebook page for sales and special offers. Thanks. Now back to the regularly scheduled program… It’s been a busy harvest [...]

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Mullein

Please take a moment to check out www.songcroftnaturals.com and to support our family farm by purchasing all naturals body, skin and hair care products that you use every day! Here is a link to a youtube video on the topic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYOc_jyEpnI This week I was asked to share more details about one of the plants that [...]

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Back From Northwest Herbal Faire!

Please don’t forget to check out our all-natural skin, body and hair care products at www.songcroftnaturals.com Last week I spent four days at the NW Herbal Faire. I arrived at midnight after running my farmers market booth. This meant packing up and working all day at the market, returning home to off-load and re-load new [...]

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We love WWOOF’ers!

    WWOOF’ing on SongCroft allows for time to connect with nature and yourself!     To support our family farm, you can purchase products through www.songcroftnaturals.com Thank you!   Summer has been a little different for us this year on SongCroft. The sun has only shown itself enough to make us remember what we’ve [...]

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Quick Update

One of the many ways you can support our farm is to purchase our prducts. If you are going to buy all-natural personal care products, why not support a farm in the process? www.songcroftnaturals.com   Let me apologize in advance for the lack of blog entries of late. Things are always hopping here on the [...]

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Interns Wanted

High 65 Low 40                 Clear sunny day with some crispness Want to live on a farm for the summer? It is that time of year. The time when interns are moving on to farms all around the country in hope of learning how to grow food, work [...]

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