If you have never had Moose meat you are missing out on something great, In “The Maine Woods”, Henry David Thoreau described its taste as, “like tender beef, with perhaps more flavor; sometimes like veal”. That is as close as a description of it as I will try. Moose meat is one of our family [ Read More ]
Archive for the ‘Homesteading’ Category
Categories: Cooking, Day to Day stuff, Homesteading, Maine Wildlife
I got an email from one of our first followers asking about the red wiggler worms. The worms are doing great. I read all about what needs to be done to take care of worms but I still made a bunch of rookie mistakes. I put too much food in too soon before the colony [ Read More ]
Categories: Composting, Day to Day stuff, Homesteading
So far we have found at least 7 apple trees on the property. Weldon is excited that he has one of the trees right outside his window so each day he will be able to look and watch them grow. He wants to put up a tent and wait under the apple tree so as [ Read More ]
Categories: Day to Day stuff, Homesteading, Uncategorized
Worms arrived on Thursday June 24th in the afternoon. It took a day longer than it was supposed to and upon arrival there were a lot less worms than were advertised. It was supposed to be 2 lbs of worms if there was ¾ of a lb I was lucky. So far the worms are [ Read More ]
Categories: Composting, Day to Day stuff, Homesteading
I’ve been looking for weeks for a way to get these worms local but nobody I could find has them. All of the bait shops have nightcrawlers and other types of worms but no red wigglers. I could have gone to a local farmer and seen if I could go through their manure pile to [ Read More ]
Categories: Composting, Homesteading
Wicked Good news on the Home Front. Looks like the closing date will be on June 25th. We may actually be able to get in a few things in the garden this year at the new house. I didn’t think we would be able to. With the short growing season it will be a race. [ Read More ]
Categories: Homesteading
Welcome and hello. This is the first post for the Wicked Good Life blog. We are in the process of buying our homestead as we speak. It consists of a 2600 square foot farm house built in 1908 sitting on 9.6 acres of land, close enough that we’ll probably just refer to it as 10 [ Read More ]
Categories: Day to Day stuff, Homesteading, Maine Wildlife
