Farm Fresh Tuesdays Blog Hop #21

My father once told me that I should do what makes me happy. Of course, that was twenty years ago when happiness seemed to come second to paying the mortgage and getting to work on time to make money for someone else. Down the road a bit, the kids were born and our life's focus was placed on raising them right. It would take a further ten years to realize that the two were intimately connected. 

We bought our dream homestead, became self-employed and put our energies into what makes us happy- family and the experiences of self-sufficient life. Our lives became less cluttered with 'stuff' and enriched by the love and minimalist attitudes of homesteading.

Today, Wendie and I join the amazing crew of Farm Fresh Tuesdays as new co-hosts. We have discovered that though we haven't met face-to-face, these fellow homesteading writers are our kindred souls and our friends. We are proud to join their ranks.

Meet our amazing hosts and see what they’ve been up to this week!

Add Wood to Your Decor

AnneMarie from 15 Acre Homestead

Low Sugar Muscadine Jelly

Melissa from Little Frugal Homestead

Growing Lavender from Seed

Tamara from The Reid Homestead

Growing Fodder for Your Flock

Lisa from The Self Sufficient HomeAcre

Fire Roasted Tomato Sauce Recipe

Todd & Wendie from Unexplained Underfoot Objects- That's Us!

Farm Fresh Features

Each week, Wendie and I choose four articles from the past week that we want to share as features. Though all were wonderful reads, these are the ones that really drew us in!

Building Healthy Soil from Susan at Learning & Yearning

Generator Troubleshooting from Sarita at An Off Grid Life

Slow Cooker Curry Chicken from Carol at Comfort Spring

Apple Pie Cobbler from Marilyn's Treats

Congratulations to our Featured Bloggers this week! Be sure to check each of the hosts’ Farm Fresh Tuesdays posts to see if you were featured. Each host chooses their own features each week.

Featured bloggers, be sure and grab our ‘Farm Fresh Feature!’ button and link it to the post where you were featured! You can also display it proudly on your sidebar! Let others know where you’ve been featured!

Farm Fresh Tuesdays Blog Hop Rules:

Share your recipes, homesteading, homemaking, homeschooling, sustainability, and DIY posts!

You may share older 'in-season' posts, but please don’t share the same posts each week!

If you share your posts in this party, you are giving permission for others to link to your posts….that’s a good thing because it helps get more eyes on your posts. 

Check each host's hop post to see if you were featured this week! We each share our own features.

Be sure to link back to this blog hop so that we can feature you next week.

Visit some of the other posts and leave a comment…let them know you found them here!

Feel free to apply to our Farm Fresh Bloggers Roundup Page!

Do not link to other blog hops, giveaways, or posts dedicated to selling a product. However, you may leave a comment below telling us about your blog hop or giveaway!

Posts that don't adhere to these rules will be deleted.

Let the Farm Fresh Tuesdays Blog Hop Begin!