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I'm going to live off my farm - for a year!

I'm doing this insane challenge where I am going to live of my little farm for an entire year. One of my best friends dared me to try this challenge, the #HomegrownYear, where I will live primarily off what we produce on our little farm for a year. Check out the rules of the challenge at https://www.realbestlife.com/homegrown-year-the-rules/
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I write about Farm(ish) Living from my urban farm, Recipes you'll love and Real Life Advice. Check it out below!

panna cotta dessert italian
Holiday Eggnog Panna Cotta
You can't go wrong with this foolproof, two-ingredient, luxurious, holiday dessert.
Zucchini hash egg
Quick and healthy farm-fresh​ (Keto friendly) zucchini/squash hash
We have entered that time in the growing season - you know the one - where everyone across the country
pavlova fruit recipe fresh
Pavlova with fresh fruit
Is there a more perfect dessert than a pavlova? It's light and airy but, when well executed, has a depth
lime curd homemade recipe
Easy homemade lime curd – 10-minutes
Lime curd is something worth making from scratch. I always bought the kind in a jar and I will never
candied kumquat recipe
Addictive candied kumquats
My friend sent me a beautiful box of kumquats, I candied them!
s'mores peep easter pie recipe
Easy peanut butter s’mores peep pie
Easy and colorful peep pie.
carrot cake cupcake cream cheese frosting
Ultimate carrot cake cupcakes
Perfect carrot cake cupcakes
Delicious zucchini ​​and turkey sausage lasagna
I generally am in the "use whipping cream and butter" camp when it comes to cooking. That's great for weekend

Still doin’ the gardening, farming, self-sustainable challenge
Now is the time for a homestead, prepper, gardening, farming, self-sustainable, gourmet, farm-to-table, challenge - complete with goats, chickens a
DIY Distressed Whitewashed Farmhouse Vanity Refacing for Under $40
A perfect weekend vanity upgrade. Get your farmhouse look on!
Adventure ​in cheesemaking – my first attempt at homemade feta
I made feta and I will never be the same.
It’s time to bring back the Victory Garden
During tough times in our history families used to have a Victory Garden, it's time to bring them back.
I moved my office to a SheShed – and it’s amazing
It's turned from a running joke with my group of girlfriends into a source of pride: I work in a
homestead homegrown kelly maher
Why did I just sign up to do this crazy thing – a Homegrown Year?
I’m going to live by eating almost entirely off our little “homestead farm” . . . for a year. Why,
homegrown homestead kelly maher
A Homegrown Year
I’m going to live off of that which I can produce on our small “micro-farm” north of Denver, Colorado -
pancake goat life farm
If you give your goat a pancake, hire a professional waxer
Some days life on the farm is weird. Other days if you give your goat a pancake you will end

food supply chain
5 things you can do to control your own food supply chain
There are five steps you can take right now to start controlling your own food supply. Friends across the country
It’s time to bring back the Victory Garden
During tough times in our history families used to have a Victory Garden, it's time to bring them back.
I moved my office to a SheShed – and it’s amazing
It's turned from a running joke with my group of girlfriends into a source of pride: I work in a
I’m your prepper Mom friend – Here’s what’s in my emergency baby bag
(This post contains affiliate links to Amazon - but you can get almost all of this stuff at your local
5 reasons you’re not doing the thing – and why you’re wrong
This is the time. Do the thing.
labor childbirth
Shout your average childbirth
One bizarre sociological trend we all need to reconsider is the seemingly pathological need some women have to impart childbirth
morning mantra inspiration
Morning wake-up mantra for energy and attitude
Are you listening (and controlling) your internal dialogue to get the most out of your day?
I was a good Mom – and then I had a baby
I was the best Mom, then they handed me a baby.