EP 447: From My Homestead to Yours: My Fall Checklist for a Stress-Free Winter

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

As summer rolls into fall it’s important for any homestead to walk through the checklist of things to do to be prepared for winter. The bonus of doing these tasks is that it sets you up for a great spring the following year. Join me as I walk you through everything we’ve been doing on our homestead. For more information and any links mentioned in this episode, visit https://melissaknorris.com/447.

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0:00.0	Hey pioneers, welcome to episode number 447.
0:10.0	Today's podcast, I am going to be walking you through tips things basically what we're doing here on our homestead in order to get ready for fall and winter
0:20.3	So giving you a bit of kind of like behind the scenes, what's happening in real time here, but also a checklist so that you can make sure that you are getting these same things done so that your homestead is prepared for fall and winter.
0:37.6	So I'm kind of break this down by category what we're doing kind of in each one of those categories as we go through it. So up first I'm
0:44.3	going to start in the garden and crops. Now depending on where you live you may
0:48.7	still have quite a bit going on in the garden or if you're really far north
0:52.1	some of those colder zones you might not have a whole
0:54.8	lot happening in the garden yet. Now interestingly we are pretty far north I'm kind of
1:00.6	sandwiched between Seattle and Canada so so I'm in pretty far northern western Washington state.
1:07.0	Normally by this time of year, I am recording this just a few days before this episode will go live. So this is almost in real time.
1:15.0	And it's crazy.
1:17.0	We are at the end of almost of October
1:20.0	and we have not had our first killing frost. This is pretty abnormal for us.
1:25.4	Normally we've had a killing frost by now. We were 34 degrees Fahrenheit this
1:30.0	morning so we were super super close I know any any night I'm gonna wake up in the
1:35.9	morning and boom it will have hit but for this moment I actually for this part of
1:41.6	October have more coming on in the garden than I usually do, which has been really nice.
1:46.4	We had a little bit of a cool start kind of in June to the garden.
1:50.0	It seemed it took things.
1:51.0	We were about three weeks behind what would be our normal harvest schedule,
1:55.5	so it's been a relief that that killing frost has lasted, or I should say, has not came that our
2:02.0	warm spell and kind of a warm autumn has lasted this long.
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