Living Life in the Land of Milk & Honey
I got a call from a family who had a wild honey bee hive in the eve of their house! I had no experience removing wild bee hives and the thought of climbing a 10′ ladder and removing the hive myself scared the liven day lights out of me! Especially after seeing how very hot […]
Welcome to Birth Story Collections at The Promiseland Farm! If you would like to share your birth story, please email me at thepromiselandfarm [at] gmail.com A Healing Home Water Birth This is the story of the home water birth of Elizabeth Joy, our second daughter. The story begins three years before Elizabeth with the home […]
If you’re tired of… all the nasty chicken mess in the barn, pot holes and bare patches of earth from chickens scratching, having to clean out your chicken house, all the nasty feather/dander/dirt in the air? Well, a portable coop is your solution! I’m going to share with you how we made our chicken tractor! […]
Welcome to Birth Story Collections at The Promiseland Farm! Did you know that breech babies are a variation of normal? Let me rephrase that, breech babies are normal and you can have a home birth with a breech baby! Just because you have a breech baby does not mean you need to schedule a c-section. […]
Welcome to Birth Story Collections at The Promiseland Farm! If you would like to share your birth story, please email me at thepromiselandfarm[at]gmail.com Heather lives in Kansas with her husband, daughter, and zen dog Charley on a 20 acre homestead. They have chickens for eggs and meat, a milk cow, beef cow, and are growing […]
Welcome to Birth Story Collections at The Promiseland Farm! If you would like to share your birth story, please email me at thepromiselandfarm[at]gmail.com Miriam and Robert are from Texas. Miriam is a Stay-at-Home Mommy and Robert is an EMT. They have a new puppy and are planning to start gardening next spring. Miriam is interested […]
Welcome to Birth Story Collections at The Promiseland Farm! If you would like to share your birth story, please email me at thepromiselandfarm[at]gmail.com I have a remarkable birth story from two of my dear friends at birth of there first daughter. They planned a natural birth center delivery with midwifes and ended up transferring to […]
Welcome to Birth Story Collections at The Promiseland Farm! If you would like to share your birth story, please email me at thepromiselandfarm[at]gmail.com I have special story for you from Wardee Harmon at GNOWFGLINS.com. Wardee Harmon lives in Southwest Oregon with her husband and their three children. They raise a dairy cow, chickens and goats, and garden […]
Welcome to Birth Story Collections at The Promiseland Farm! For the first story in the collection, I’m going to share the birth story of our little girl, Isabella in 2011. If you have a birth story you’d like to share, please email me at thepromiselandfarm[at]gmail.com Fear is a strong motivator. Fear fueled by the unknown […]
Three reasons to avoid rice cereal and grains for babies first foods 1.) Rice cereal and all extruded grains are a processed food. Feeding your baby is serious business, do you really want to leave that responsibility to big business and government recommendations?! Rice cereal and all extruded grain “Cereals are mixed or mashed with […]
The newest enterprise at The Promiseland Farm… GEESE! GOOSE COOP VIDEO TOUR! We bought two pairs of American Lavender day old goslings for breeding stock from Holderread’s and six day old white Embden goslings for the freezer. Geese are fabulous weeders, lawn mowers and poopers. Yes, I said poopers! They poop a lot. The best […]
Growing up, my family and I were vegetarians and even though we tried to eat healthy, frequently we’d slip into the the standard American diet pit falls… what this meant for me is that I was almost always constipated! I found some relief by squatting on the toilet rim (yes, a tricky acrobatic act!) or […]
