Tooo busy Tuesday!!

Welcome to Tuesday...at least we made it thru Monday.  Every year I say I'm going to cut back and make more "ME" time...then I come up with another way to be self sufficient and throws that out the barn door..hahaha   There is so much really cool stuff out there to learn.  Then you really think about it and it's all stuff our grandmothers and great grandmothers did daily because there was no choice.  That's how they lived....now we feel cool to make our own soaps,  or cheese and gather our own eggs.  Preserving our harvests seems so time consuming yet our grandmothers did it ....why?  because it saved money,  tasted far better than any store produced and was and is healthier.  And really when you get the hang of it,  it's really not so bad.  I know me and my family and extended family enjoys the outcome of all my preserving efforts.  What is so cool is there are SO MANY angles you can take and the possibilities are just simply endless...you can save your heirloom seeds to plant your garden so no need to purchase your seeds yearly..you can feed and compost your garden with your food scraps and animal "dodo".  no need to buy fertilizer.  Your canning jars only a one time investment,  except for the lids. Make sure you read up on each point I've made to get the details of doing this properly.  Laundry soap..very expensive..make your own.  I should post some of these recipes I use for various things.  Why give away your hard earned money.  I was born 100 years to late.  I would so love to have the knowledge to they had pass on.  Well time for me to get to work..The Farm Crawl is getting closer and I have things still to do to prepare for it.  Have a wonderful Day all!

Happy Friday!

The weekend has finally arrived...so much to do.  As always,  but that is OK.  I need to get busy and take some up to date pics of all our dogs and farm yard buddies..a proper introduction one might say.  We added to young female Turkeys a couple of days ago and Big Tom has seemed quite pleased with the addition.  One of our Havanese..Miss Clarice will be a mommy soon.  Hopefully her babies will be ready in time for Christmas.  They are a small,  sturdy breed from Cuba.  Very family friendly!  As I said I will be posting pics of all of them very soon.  We will also be adding a couple of young female peacocks this weekend also...I just love Peacocks.  Such a glorious bird!  Pleased with the cucumbers this year..we will have a lot of Pickles and pickle relish to put up...yum!  My Husband Joe and Son Aadyn put pickles an or pickle relish on EVERYTHING!  My mint and Chamomile is also doing quite well....nothing more satisfying than drinking a cup of herbal tea right out of the garden,,,very refreshing.  I could sit here and chat all day...but things need to get done...so have a terrific weekend all!

Our Prince Harry.....named by Joe

Welcome to Cherokee Winds

Welcome to the new Cherokee Winds web page!!  I'.m very new at this but I knew someday I would have to venture into the computer world and learn all this stuff...lol .  There is so much to say!!  Where to start???  First I will tell you a little about us...we are a 5 acre farm...we have a vast variety of animals on our farmstead.  Everyday is an adventure I must say.  From Horses to chickens...I will soon post pics.  we grow a VERY LARGE veggy garden as well as herbs.  We enjoy our own honey and fresh eggs.  I also make homemade goats milk soap,,,,Love my soap!  I also tried my first batch of goat milk cheese..delish....I will be getting more into that very soon.  I want you all to see how easy it to live chemical free and make most of what you buy from scratch...it can be done!!  If I can do it.  So can you.  We have a Farm Crawl coming in August,  on the 17th from 10-6pm....a wonderful day to learn and see things first hand.  There are 5 farms involved.  I will share a link to that.  Soon as I can figure it out.....Stay tuned.