July to September around the Homestead

I kind of blanked on my monthly homestead updates, the summer months always seem to get away from me. My days throughout July and August are a quick paced mashup of early morning and late nights, endless laundry piles, baking bread daily, a million snacks and meals for the kids.

Homesteading

Along the Hedge - Homestead & Apothecary

Ever since I could remember I’ve wanted to live in the country and have a hobby farm. That life-long goal was achieved when we purchased our little 2.5 acres tucked back in the middle of nowhere. The banker tried to talk us out of it. It’s not

Herbal Healing

The Herbal Path

Herbs have been studied, explored, and relied upon for thousands of years. They have been skillfully turned into teas, tinctures, salves, powders and more. Herbalists have made allies with thousands of medical and culinary herbs. Many of the medicinal herbs used today are classified ambiguously as weeds, but as herbal

Homesteading

May and June Around the Homestead

I'm not really sure where May went... but here we are a week into June already. Oyyyyy! May was a lot. We got our chicks and ducklings and had to basically start & finish up the chicken tractors. I started transplanting my cabbage and brussels sprout seedlings and

Spirituality

Healing with the Chakras: Root

As you begin your healing journey through the chakras I highly suggest you start with the Root Chakra and work your way up through to the Crown. Spend as much time as you need exploring and balancing each chakra before moving to the next. This might be minutes or it

Spirituality

Healing with the Chakras

There are many books and countless blogs on this topic. For the sake of brevity and to provide clarity, I'm going to give you just a quick overview of what it means to work with and begin to heal your chakras. From there I will go into more

Spirituality

Creating a Daily Spiritual Practice

Whether you already have a daily spiritual practice or you're dabbling with the idea of it, the key to finding one that works best for you, is consistency. There are no hard rules set in stone regarding a daily spiritual practice. You don't need to follow

Homesteading

April Around the Homestead

The flip flop of spring this year has me feeling ahead and behind at the exact same time. I finally managed to get into the garden and clean it up and prune some bushes but I still need to fertilize my fruit trees and prep the garden for planting. I

Homesteading

March Around the Homestead

March has been a wild time. The weather has been bi-polar and it's got me flip flopping from spring cleaning with the windows open mode to retreating into the depths of my soul doing shadow work mode. I'm honestly not sure how I'm supposed

Homesteading

Is Homesteading for you...Figuring out your Why??

Apparently while I have been off on my 7 month social media hiatus, Homesteading has become the new fad. I returned to Instagram a couple weeks ago and have been met with thousands of homesteader reels and accounts. To be honest, I was like yes! Look at all these people

Free Thought

Let’s Chat: Living with the Seasons.

As I sit here and write this article, we are having one of the coldest days this winter. The weird thing is, it’s only -5 degrees Celsius. Usually by this time of year we are well into -10 to -20 c temps. This winter has been messed up and

Homesteading

February Around the Homestead

We haven’t had much of a winter and at first thought I was like “Yes, I’ll take it!” But then I got thinking, what kind of effect will this non existent winter have on everything? Will this years garden season be all wonky like last years? Last spring

Free Thought

Regenerative Homesteading

I have allowed social influences to dictate a part of my life that I thought I had a firm hold on. The term Sustainability is in right now. I thought it meant a return to old times. You know, growing our own food, working with our hands, coexisting with nature,

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Homesteading

2024 Seed Starting & Planting Schedule

Free Thought

Why I Offer a Free & Paid Membership Blog

My goal with Marble and Mud is to create quality and exclusive content without having to scroll through ads, upon ads, upon ads. You know what I’m talking about, you just want to find the information you’re looking for and get back to doing whatever it was you

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Holistic Living

The Holistic Gardener’s Guidebook & Planner

Free Thought

Switching your Mindset from Consumer to Producer

We spend everyday listening, reading, watching, rating, spending, buying and the list goes on and on. We work long hours to be able to afford nicer, bigger and better things. But in the end, when we get those things, are we truly happy? Consumers have a “what can I get“

Homesteading

Homesteading without Livestock

I've heard other homesteaders say this before and it's something I've struggled with for years.... Am I fraud if I call myself a homesteader but I don't have any livestock? We do have chickens though. Laying hens. Our plan for 2024 is

January around the homestead

Now is the time I start planning my garden for the upcoming season. Usually we're knee deep in snow and I am looking for any way to get a little sunshine and happiness in my life. This winter has been very mild so far though and we currently

Holistic Living

Lets get real about Holistic Living

First and foremost - there is no right or wrong way to do this. It doesn't have to be all or nothing and you can most definitely pick and choose what works for your family and what doesn't. When I began my journey of wanting to

Free Thought

Into 2024 we go..

But wait, where did 2023 go? I'm not sure about you but for me this past year passed in a blink. I thought taking a social media break from June to Dec 31st would slow life down. I thought savouring and enjoying every minute of our baby girls

Free Thought

The fear of writing and moving past it

I'm going to get a bit real here for this one. Authenticity is key for me so putting this out there is a must. I started my first blog in 2015 just a couple of months into my first son's life. A new mom with a

Holistic Living

Fall Equinox

The air smells so refreshing right now you could almost mistake it for spring. The warm days, cool nights and changing leaves do something for my soul I'm not even sure I can put it down into words. The contentment I feel is next level during this time

Free Thought

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