My Micro-Homestead project is growing sunflowers. 🌻 I chose this because I want to grow food for my chickens and wild birds.I already have 9 plant starts I just planted outside. I still need to help them grow big. By the end of this challenge, I want to feel like I am on the path to self sufficiency.

I’m currently working on starting onions from seed. The part I feel stuck on is they weren’t sprouting well covered by straw. The support I would love is information on how others have successfully grown sweet onions from seed. One question I have is mulch or no?

Today has been a day to rest. My grandson and I spread mulch and cleaned gutters yesterday. Not my idea of fun, but one of necessity. I did shoot some pictures and I’ll share a few but I won’t overwhelm you. Here’s to the beginning of this fun and educational community. I believe we will all get a lot of ideas.

A little about my Micro-Homestead journey: recently I started making all of our bread and crackers at home. I would like to be more consistent in this. My goal is once a week have a day set aside for making bread, crackers, meal prepping and planning. I would love to cut out as much artificials in our diet as possible!

I'm choosing the kitchen path, a project I would like to start with is making bread weekly for my family.