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Home » Homestead & DIY » A Learning Curve

A Learning Curve

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Originally published on January 3, 2015. Last updated on October 24, 2018

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I’ve always wanted a blog, now I’ve got one! I figured Jan. 1 was as good a time as any. I have no idea what I’m doing… but I do have lots of ideas to share! So please bear with me as I learn. Pretty soon this site will be awesome, I promise! Here’s a little sneak preview of what’s to come:

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  1. Kathryn says

    April 1, 2022 at 6:33 pm

    I always love skipping back to the beginning of great blogs to see where people have come from. Needless to say your blog turned out to be spectacular!

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    • Grow Forage Cook Ferment says

      April 4, 2022 at 10:02 am

      Wow, thank you so much, Kathryn!!

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  2. Margaret Coates says

    August 6, 2016 at 8:15 am

    You are living my dream, both with your life-style and your blog. I will follow you closely and see what other ideas you have that I can incorporate into my simple but full and satisfying life. I am sixty something, have my Burgeoning Garden in my tiny yard and try to replace store-bought products with my own. Frugality has become my hobby but that must go hand in hand with taste/fragrance, beauty and practicality. Best wishes to you.

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  3. Cathy J. Richie says

    January 30, 2015 at 12:07 pm

    I just found your website through a link with Facebook. And I am very glad that I did! I’m a fifty-something grandma who was fortunate to grow up in the country, and I am blessed to have lived on our dream farmstead for 24 years now. However, I am always looking for new self-sufficient things to try, ways for our place to be more sustainable, another recipe to tempt the family’s tastebuds, etc. I have already learned from your website, and plan to make the deodorant soon. (I am currently recovering from knee replacement surgery, and don’t quite have the stamina I would like right now.) And I hope to order the nourished kitchen soon, too. I only buy a book for my reference library these days when it will really add to the collection as I am already “book poor”! But after previewing this one, I really want to buy it. Anyway, keep up the good work! I was amazed to read that you just started your site. You are doing great!

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    • Colleen says

      January 30, 2015 at 1:15 pm

      Thank you for the kind words! While my blog is new, I have been doing these things for many years. Everyone kept telling me that I should have a blog and I recently had the time to actually sit down and so it, so here I am, and I’m loving it! Hope you like the deodorant, I think it works really well. And I know what you mean about books, but I really think you’ll love that one :)

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  4. Don Cochrane says

    January 5, 2015 at 2:50 pm

    – Colleen-
    – did you really have to put that bread photo up ? now I’m all hungry.

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  5. Robin jozovich says

    January 4, 2015 at 12:31 am

    Love the pictures.. Will be checking for more.

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