Cicadas! Homestead Blog Hop 342

Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! This week at Ridge Haven Homestead and around our area, we’ve been stormed with the deafening song of the 17-year cicadas! Our property actually doesn’t have as many as our friends in town have, but they’re out there! I’m amazed to see the phenomenon of an animal that can…

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Homestead Blog Hop 340

    Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Good morning and happy day to you!  Currently, every time we drive to our driveway, we are blessed to be greeted with lovely flowers in full bloom!   The Mountain Laurels are out, plus we still have native Flame Azalea dotting the hills!  It’s worth a hike…

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Homestead Blog Hop 339

Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! When it rains, it pours! That’s what the old saying goes, right? Thankfully, here in upper East Tennessee, that means literal rain. On our homestead, we don’t mind the rain. Not too much! Rain is watering our little potatoes, which are popping up all over. Also, I planted some…

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Homestead Blog Hop 338

Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Now on to the Hop Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: real food recipes, farm animals, crafts, DIY, how-to’s, gardening, anything from-scratch, natural home/health, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, natural remedies, essential oils, & more! Basically anything related to homesteading. Meet Your Hosts! Follow…

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Homestead Blog Hop 337

Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! It’s Blog hop time again! Thanks for coming by and sharing your creations and experiences! We get inspiration from each other! ? Happy homesteading! ? Now on to the Hop Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: real food recipes, farm animals,…

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Homestead Blog Hop & Birds of Spring

Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! This post may contain affiliate links Birds of Spring We heard our first hummingbird today! This prompted me to haul out the hummingbird feeders and disinfect them. They’ll be hanging out tomorrow! And tonight it sounded like monkeys out in our woods I’m guessing I was listening to the…

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Homestead Blog Hop 339

Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Now on to the Hop Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: real food recipes, farm animals, crafts, DIY, how-to’s, gardening, anything from-scratch, natural home/health, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, natural remedies, essential oils, & more! Basically anything related to homesteading. Meet Your Hosts! Follow…

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