Vegetable Garden Planning – What are We Planting?

When it comes to growing vegetables, Spring may not be the only time of year to grow, but it sure provides an exceptional opportunity. If you’re a fellow Florida homesteader, or if you’re looking to get started growing your own veggies, now is the time to start. As usual, we’re not here to tell you …

New Posting Schedule – And Other Updates

Good evening and welcome to another Wednesday blog post with your favorite bloggers -The Silly Couple. Today, we have some announcements to make. Namely, around our posting cadence. We’ve done a lot of talking lately about it, and we want to start sharing more about how we’re doing things here on the homestead. We also …

Alfalfa Pellets for Milking Dairy Goats

Hello and welcome back to another beautiful Wednesday here at the Silly Couple’s Funny Farm. Today, we’re going to discuss a topic near and dear to us because it’s something that drove us insane early on. To clarify, we didn’t have any alfalfa pellets on hand when we got our stubborn Nigerian Dwarf goat, Delilah. …

The Secret to Training Livestock Guardian Dogs

Hello and welcome to another week of homesteading goodness with your favorite Silly Couple! Today we’re going to example how we went about training our livestock guardian dog, Jadzia. Let’s start out by making one thing clear: there is no single secret to training livestock guardian dogs. And, we don’t claim to be experts in …

Happy Birthday Jadzia – Our Special Great Pyrenees

OK, we’re a day early. But, who else wants to join us in wishing our livestock guardian dog a happy birthday! Jadzia was born March 10, 2021, which means she turns 1 year old tomorrow. And, as we celebrate this momentous occasion, we can’t help but feel great pride for our great Pyrenees puppy. She’s …

March Homesteading Goals

Another month out of the way too fast. We don’t know about anyone else, but here at the Silly Couple homestead, the month of February went by in a blur. And, as we begin March and reflect on everything that happened in February, we want to really consider our homesteading goals. With that in mind, …

Milking Nigerian Dwarf Goats

Less than two weeks ago, The Silly Couple brought three goats to the homestead. This includes our herd queen Delilah and her two doelings, Isabella and Gabriella. While there’s no denying how entertaining these girls can all be, the real reason we got them wasn’t just to have more pets. Instead, we’re interested in milking …