Black Cat Homestead

11/13/2025

Here's another way to make mash. I figured y'all might want to see an alternative way that's more of an immune boost. It's a really cool way to do it. Fluffy Cluckers Homestead

11/13/2025

What does growing plants/homesteading look like with ADHD? Like a ticking tomato time bomb that you randomly find around the house.

It was sticky and veeeery fluid-filled; just waiting for someone to touch it in the wrong way so it could burst rotten tomato everywhere.

11/12/2025

This is my friend Jess. She makes really cool breads, pastas, sweet treats (including frozen cookie dough balls that you just pop into the oven). Any CT folks out there should check her shop out. You can even order online. Her holiday menu...suuuuuper good too.
Eight Mile Meadow

11/12/2025

Yall wanna see the super fancy way I make hot mash for the chickens on a cold day? It's riveting. I know, I know. Some folks don't do this kinda stuff but I do enjoy to occasionally pamper our two flocks. One flock (the younger one) loooooves mash. The other flock...not so much. But we will keep trying. It's just their normal feed plus hot water.

11/12/2025

Check out my silly attempt at doing a reel. It's sideways and I sound like a do**us but here it is. haha.

11/12/2025

Look at how many tomatoes we still have from our vines! It's bananas.

11/12/2025

Here's me and my dog Diesel. He was moving so he's slightly fuzzy but he's our rescue Great Dane. We were told he is 5 years old and 95 lbs. Instead he was 6.5 and 135 lb. In the last five months with us, he's gained 10-15 pounds (we are cutting back his food and treats a little bit) and he's almost 7 now. Turns out he has the same birthday as me (just after thanksgiving).

He's not the easiest dog to deal with. He loves to eat random stuff that makes him very sick. His prey drive kicks in really hard when a small animal runs in front of him (think ears perking up and him maybe running when a chicken flaps nearby or a cat shoots through the room). But he's pretty good about not actually biting things and he listens when I say NO. He actually listens to me really well. He was clearly mistreated before because when he does something bad, he definitely expects to be hit, which is something we will never do here. Scolding, yes. Hitting him, no. Anyway, I just wanted to show everyone our giant dog.

11/10/2025

Yall, we hit over 500 followers! Whaaaat! That's bananas. Here's some photos of Gomez, our White Ameraucana (dominant white from Ermine lines) rooster. He's stark white looking in real life (a bit less yellow than he looks in the photos).

11/06/2025

I did not expect to harvest this many tomatoes in November but here we are. I let these go through several potential frosts but tonight it’ll actually get to 32F so I took them off the vines.

Holy spoon tomatoes, Batman! There’s a boatload of spoon tomatoes, small cherry type tomatoes, black icicle tomatoes, and other types of tomatoes. Bowls are by my husband who turns wood stuff (Enchanted_turnings on Instagram) but he’s gonna teach me how to do that soon.

11/06/2025

Here's a really interesting video from French Chicks Farm showing the reason to candle allllll the eggs, even if you're not going to incubate them. I hadn't even thought of this but now that I've seen this video, it makes some sense. What do yall think?

11/04/2025

Hey folks, my friend Shane is from Jamaica and he’s raising money to help people there rebuild their homes after that horrible hurricane they had. It’s not a random person. I actually know him well and he’s a great guy. So feel free to donate if you want. No biggie if you cannot or just don’t want to.

Hello. My name is Shane Smith. I grew up in the communities of Wils… Shane Smith needs your support for Help Support Families and Rebuild Homes in Jamaica