Haphazard Homestead

Have you ever seen anything like this?  We found it in our back yard earlier this month, right after that freak snow on May 2. It'...

I just wanted to show off my latest batch of homemade soap that I made yesterday.  These are actually shampoo bars, but the difference is...

Gardening has begun at Haphazard Homestead! I now have a new printer and have begun using the garden planner I purchased earlier this year...

My friend Melinda and her husband gave us a boatload of potatoes recently, and I've been slowly working them up.  Some will be chitted ...

Since Shane will be home and our weekend will begin tomorrow, and since the last day of February is today, I decided to write my Friday post...

Knowing how much to plant each year is the hardest step in garden planning, I think.  As far as I can tell, no matter how I choose to cal...

On the table... The 30-Year Old Cooking Virgin's Skillet Basil Cream Chicken on Valentine's Day, Paula Deen's Southern Fried ...

I've mentioned before that I bought a neat-o perpetual garden planner download from Northwest Edible Life , and have all intentions ...

The blog has been heavy on recipes lately.  That's because, when I'm busy, they seem to be the easiest things for me to post. And bu...

I think a lot of us who aspire to the frugal lifestyle sometimes get caught up in the idea that our efforts have to be all or nothing. This...

I know I haven't been around much.  Here's why: - Between Thursday of last week and yesterday, we processed and froze 84 pounds o...

Shane ended up having to work on Saturday, but Kat and I decided to go to Warsaw Heritage Days without him.  This is the first time in many ...

Garden season isn't quite over yet.  This is what we picked from our garden last night.  Two big bowls of green beans (we covered them...

Some of last year's tomatoes; taken October 2011. A couple dozen of these look ready to move to the kitchen. Our first frost was...

We harvested about 20 pounds of potatoes this year.  That's not a great yield, but it was better than any previous year, so we were ha...

I'm busy sewing today, but here's something that's on my mind -- and has been on my mind before, because it's happened se...

We've been busy.  I'll tell you more about it tomorrow.

I thought I'd take a look at the books I read in January and February of this year.  Maybe you'll find something here you like. I...

Look! A Saturday post! This won't happen often, but I wanted to post about our rain catchment set-up so I could link it to a thread on ...

Thanks to rain on Friday, Shane had another three-day weekend.  He spent part of his day off in the doctor's office, though, getting med...