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  1. My Garden Was Attacked: The Deer Ate Everything!

    I spent months growing my garden, watched everything grow, and was just about ready to start harvesting. Then the deer decided my garden was their personal buffet. If you garden, you probably know how exciting this time of year can be. You've spent months planting seeds, watering, weeding, watching for pests, and checking your plants every day. Eventually, all that work starts paying off. The tomatoes are finally covered in fruit. The zucchini and squash are growing. The potatoes are […]

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  2. What I’m Growing in My Garden This Year (And What’s Actually Working)

    After two years away from the garden, I'm growing food, learning lessons, and proving that consistency beats perfection. By Misty Duffney There are two kinds of gardeners. The ones who have perfectly planned gardens that look like they belong in magazines... ...and the rest of us. This year's garden definitely falls into the second category. Even though I spent months planning what I wanted to grow, researching last frost dates, figuring out when to start seeds indoors, and deciding […]

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  3. #swangoose #gosling #goosetalk #fortheloveofgoose #animals #cute #solarpunkpraxis #growyourown #homesteadlife
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    Alexander and Aurelia investigate 🔎 their dirty pool water, if it sounds like 'pour water' they come running

    Today we learned the word, plastic tube

  4. The Parts of Homesteading Nobody Talks About

    The beautiful, messy, heartbreaking reality behind the picture-perfect homestead When most people think about homesteading, they picture the good stuff. Fresh eggs collected each morning. Baby chicks peeping in a brooder. Gardens overflowing with vegetables. Beautiful sunsets over a peaceful flock. And to be fair, those things are real. They are some of my favorite parts of this life. But they aren't the whole story. What many people don't see are the parts that happen behind the […]

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  5. From Black Thumb to Garden Obsessed

    The Garden That Changed Everything AI image of my dream garden There is something incredibly satisfying about walking outside and picking food that you grew yourself. A few years ago, I never would have imagined I would be saying that. Today, my garden is one of the things I'm most proud of. But like most things in my life, it didn't start with a lot of knowledge or experience. It started with a dream, a willingness to learn, and a lot of trial and error. Before 2022, my gardening […]

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  6. A Day in the Life at Duffney’s Bird Barn

    How I balance a remote career, homesteading, crochet, writing, and motherhood—one day at a time. People often ask me how I find time to do everything. Honestly... Some days I wonder the same thing. The weeds don't always get pulled. The laundry doesn't always get folded. The dishes aren't always done when I want them to be. Some crochet projects take longer than I planned, and there are days when my to-do list is still staring back at me when it's time for bed. I've learned that's […]

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  7. How Crochet Helped Me Through Anxiety

    More Than Just Yarn and a Hook "Crochet is a magical piece of peaceful bliss." It may sound like a simple statement, but for me, crochet became so much more than a hobby. It became a way to quiet my mind during some of the most difficult years of my life. It helped me through anxiety, grief, and trauma. It gave me something to focus on when fear seemed to take over everything else. And eventually, it became part of the foundation of Duffney's Bird Barn. My crochet journey began in 2015 […]

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  8. Starting Over, One Stitch, One Seed, and One Bird at a Time

    Welcome to Duffney's Bird Barn If you've found your way here, welcome. I'm so glad you're here. My name is Misty, and I'm the creator behind Duffney's Bird Barn. I'm a mom, crocheter, bird lover, gardener, and someone who is still figuring things out one day at a time. This blog is where I'll be sharing a little bit of everything—backyard poultry, crochet projects, gardening adventures, homestead life, and the occasional lesson I've learned the hard way. Most importantly, I want this to […]

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  9. Supply Chain Interruptions and Feed Changes
    A couple of weeks ago when I went to buy horse feed I had a shock when I found out the feed store was out of what I usually fed. Mostly because this is a feed that's made by the feed store, albeit in another town, so I thought they'd never run out. When MFA closed my local store, leaving me only with one that was an h
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    #HomesteadLife #HorseTalk #HorseCare #HorseFeed #HorseKeeping

  10. 🌱 Growing your own food isn’t just gardening—it’s freedom. Tomatoes, berries, herbs… grown by your own hands taste better than anything in a store. #GrowYourOwn #HomesteadLife #SelfSufficiency

  11. Horses As Rain Gauges
    Today is the kind of day that's the reason why weather forecasters like to repeat "turn around, don't drown" over and over again. On Thursday when I went into town the two low water crossings (before I get to paved roads) were fine. So I didn't think too much about it when it poured for a few hours before going to town. I checked the radar; the rain was moving out and du
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    #HomesteadLife #horses #Ozarks #rain #thunderstorms

  12. Tadpoles in the Horse Trough
    Welcome to the first entry in what I hope will be a new weekly series, Horse Talk With Kit, where I share bits of my life here on the farm that inspire my writings as well as more general horse care information. My goal is to be more transparent (and dare I say it more "human") with you, as well as share what brings me joy every week. Thanks for bein
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    #AuthorLife #HomesteadLife #HorseTalk #HorseCare #tadpoles

  13. Two New Cats and Spring Arrives
    Cats seem to know to find their way to our place. It could be because we're the only house along the gravel road without at least one dog, or it just could be that the cat distribution system knows where to send cats. Either way I had been putting out food for them and getting a space ready to bring them inside. With last week's co
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    #Cats #HomesteadLife #CatRescue #cats #FarmLife #spring #tulips #winter

  14. The Magic That Isn’t Written About In Stories
    When everyone in Westeros started talking about winter's imminent arrival, I highly doubt it was any of the Starks who contemplated things like water hydrants or how they were going to get water to their livestock. I haven't read the books beyond the first one (sorry, not my style) a
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    #HomesteadLife #Horses #FreezeMiser #HorseChores #WaterHydrant #winter #WinterStormKingston

  15. Folks in more temperate parts of the country can inoculate mushroom logs throughout the year (lucky you!). Who out there is already getting started? #mushrooms #fungi #shiitake #shiitakemushrooms #growyourfood #diy #gardeninglife #homesteadlife 📸: North Pulaski Farms

  16. Oh Warmth, How I’ve Missed You
    After close to six weeks of cold weather, including three weeks of having hoses coiled in my hallway to keep them from freezing so I could water the horses without lugging 10 kitty litter buckets full of water every day, worrying about the possibility of frozen pipes or not even being able to leave the homestead due to snow and ice, and dealing with bu
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    #HomesteadLife #Horses #Daffodils #Narcissus #spring

  17. So, we bought one of these "chicken coupes" from amazon to keep critters away from some of what we grow (and cover with plastic to double as a greenhouse in winter) and Nadia has decided it makes the perfect little hammock.

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    #homesteadlife

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