The busiest seasons on the homestead when you live in a place that actually has 4 seasons will always be spring and fall. Winter is coming, when you homestead that’s just as scary of a phrase as it was in Game of Thrones. We might not have white walkers, but we do have a whole lot of stuff to get done before the snow starts flying. We did have snow flurries the other day, but that’s just northern Wisconsin being northern Wisconsin. It’s 70 degrees today, go figure. There’s so much to do before the actual snow flies. Check on your homesteading friends, we’re probably not ok.
Now that it’s fall things move incredibly fast, we were literally just picking the last of our garden and canning all of our harvest, and now it’s time to hustle. We need to make sure all the animals have a clean, warm place to sleep all winter. We did just put new siding on our barn, so the female goats and pigs have a cozy place to stay this winter. We still need to make a new shelter for our boy goats and Arnold our adorable boar. Plus, a better, warmer place for our bunnies to live. We have to move fencing so our chickens will be stuck in a pasture and cut off from free ranging during the cold season when predators are fierce. We have piles of junk everywhere, basic landscaping to do, barns and coops to clean, and more projects that I probably haven’t even thought about yet.
It’s crunch time, but once we’re done and every animal has a cozy clean place to sleep we’ll be able to hibernate a little too. It’s the advantage to living in a place with 4 seasons. We have all winter to dream up new plans for the homestead, enjoy time with all of our little human ladies, and cuddle up to the fire of the pellet stove. Then we’ll be back to it.
In spring we’re done being cooped up in the house. We have big plans and the second that the ground starts to thaw we hit that ground running and work on all the projects we dreamed up all winter. I mean, it’s fall and I already have projects planned for next spring. I might have just picked up more free windows for our DIY green house next spring. Spring will always be a little easier to deal with, because you don’t have to work against mother natures clock, if you don’t finish a project you can push it to summer. Plus, spring is the start to baby season on the homestead, and I can’t wait to have baby goats again.
Written by, Brittany, the geek behind the blog. Sharing tips and stories from the trenches on navigating life homeschooling and homesteading as a stay at home mom.