I always thought you needed a fancy pasta maker to make pasta from scratch. It was too bad too, because making pasta is really simple, and only requires 2 ingredients. I thought about rolling out the dough and cutting it up, but could not imagine cutting out all those little …

Our tiny house was thrown together as we went along trying to build the homestead, and everything else, all at once. The house is functional, but it isn’t really finished. I’m ready for my house to look like a home, time for an interior upgrade! I know that my last …

After 8 years on our homestead, it is time for a clean sweep and reset. Follow along this summer!

I always need another garden bed, but my goal this year is to work really hard on getting enough production from the garden that I can put away a decent amount of food. In the past, I have done some pickling, canning, and fermenting, but no large amount of food …

While drinking my coffee one morning, I realized that my tiny house was overrun by seedlings! To top it off, they weren’t getting enough sun. I had no choice, really, but I didn’t have the funding for a greenhouse. I did some scrounging and found and old roll of plastic …

The homestead is growing and changing, so the blog will be too. With the kids getting older and more interested in everything going on, I don’t have time to write worthwhile posts much these days. However, Homestead Houligan will continue on. It isn’t that I will never blog again, but for now, …

Our first step for the addition is to fully flatten the area, but the steps are overlapping here a lot. There are other steps that are close to done, but the flattening is all done. This project was ridiculous the whole way through, but we learned that we need a …

The first area that I will be adding will be the water room. It is currently loaded with stumps and rocks. The rain barrels will be set up here, and so the sink will be nearby, and the next room over will be the bathroom. They need to be close …

The ground is just thawed and dry enough to get in some digging on the sunnier days. I have a lot of digging ahead of me, and so I have to take advantage of all the time I can get. An addition will be put on the house, including an …

Filtering water is obviously very important. We started out with a Berkey water filter, as it was the best one we could find. Six years later, we still use it, but want to make the routinea little smoother. Let’s setup a sand filter. The water that goes into this filter …