Big Love Homestead

07/31/2022

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02/16/2022

IS IT ALMOST TIME TO PLANT SEEDS?! 😅

Are you planting seeds yet or still holding out?

I think Luffa is the first to plant on our list!

This year, we wanted to extend our season by planting a fall garden for the first time. We’ll talk about what seeds we’re choosing for zone 6b and some of ou...

02/09/2022

Watching this video is like 😭

Whenever we get to February, I'm missing the flowers from the garden. I still am in my hibernation mode, and also, feeling ready for the Spring.

Are you a hibernator like us or are you out and about during the winter?

In this week's video, we're taking a walk through the garden to look at the flowers 🌸 Walk with Mackenzie through the garden and learn about medicinal flowe...

02/05/2022

Photos from our interview with KnC Worm Farm 🤗

Find the interview in our last post!

02/05/2022

Thank you so much to KnC Worm Farm for this interview!

We hope that you enjoy reading about our homestead! 🤗✨❤️✨

Big Love Homestead is a small (.9 acres) permaculture homestead in Upstate NY. Mackenzie, Brady and Peaches are coming together with the goal of growing, for...

02/02/2022

This past fall, we did some foraging and had lots of fun gathering edible treats. Check out what we gathered!

Take a walk with us through our back woods and the neighborhood to forage! We're always discovering what else we could forage and use. This week, we're picki...

01/31/2022

Did you know that daikon radishes are great for breaking up compact soil?

Back in November, we harvested these giant daikon radishes that I direct sowed in the beds around July or August.

The main reason that we planted theses radishes was to break up our clay soil in a few of the in ground garden beds. Pretty quickly, we began to see the greens sprout up, and before we knew it, the radishes were pushing right out of the ground!

The thing with daikon radishes, is that you never know how big they actually are until you dig them up. The one that I'm holding in the photo was 18" long from the top of the radish to the tip! (Not including greens)

We left some of the radishes in the ground and harvested these to can. The greens are also delicious to eat!

Can you guess what we made with them?

01/29/2022

Had so much fun talking to KnC Worm Farm today! ✨❤️✨

Good morning! We don't have an interview to post today but we're so excited and are on our way to interview our family at Big Love Homestead!! So stay tuned as we will be posting this interview next Saturday for KnCs Small Business Saturdays!!

01/29/2022

Happy Saturday from our little spotted snow kangaroo!

01/27/2022

We love a delicious dutch baby pancake on snowy winter mornings 😋

We made ours gluten free and added some canned raspberry jelly on top from last summer! Ours didn't puff as much, I think because I subbed the gf flour... 🧐

I honestly didn't look too much into why it didn't puff. It was just too delicious to care!

01/27/2022

We're deep in winter now, but already dreaming about what we will plant in the Spring!

Most of what we're planning for this coming season has to do with our front yard food forest. We've been looking through catalogs for perennial seeds and plants to add this year that are medicinal, edible or great pollinator plants.

Do you have any favorite perennials?

Join Mackenzie and Peaches as we show you around our front yard food forest and explain a few of the permaculture techniques that we are using to design it. ...