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 …
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If it’s your first time here, you chose the right time to read one of our blogs. Today is our sixth wedding anniversary! When we doubled it up on 4/8/16, we knew that we were in for many fun years together and countless great memories. The world we live in today is not the same …
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 …
2022 has been the year for us to really get things rolling here on the Homestead. As we begin April homestead planning, we reflect back on all we’ve done -and we’re quite happy with how productive we’ve been. Not only did we set aside a new garden bed and carefully prepare the soil, we also …
If you’re looking for the answer on when to ween Nigerian dwarf goats, you’re in the right place! No, we don’t claim to be the authority on this subject. In fact, we are just weening our first two doelings from their mother now. But, we’ve done all the research on the subject we could, talked …
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. …
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 …
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, …
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 …
There’s few things we’ve looked forward to in our homesteading journey more than purchasing Nigerian dwarf goats. We can make milk, cheese, soap, and they make great pets too! But, when we brought our three wonderful goats home, we have to admit: we were not ready for goats. If it’s your first time here at …