A big THANK YOU to everyone who has sent in their photographs and stories. I hope by sharing other peoples pictures and stories here on One Hundred Dollars a Month we can all have a rock star garden this year. Keep them coming!
~Mavis
This week, Stacy from Ohio tells her story, and it is a great one. They live in the coolest barn home too! So jealous. Thanks for sharing Stacy, and keep up the amazing homestead!
This is also where I started vegetable gardening, building a simple raised bed plot from 2x4s and mail order connector pieces. I worked ashes and sand into the clay soil, adding compost made from kitchen scraps, fallen leaves and horse manure. In that first garden, we grew the basics: lettuce, tomatoes, green beans and broccoli by trial and error, seeking advice from experienced gardeners along the way. In addition, I learned to can, preserving fruits, jellies, and jams from our bounty and that of nearby farms and orchards.
Luckily, my husband shared this love, so our dream house became, you guessed it, a barn. So we had our barn raised, roughly six years ago. But even before the barn was built, with a preschooler and toddler in tow, we started a compost pile and established our first raised bed at the property using fallen tree trunks as borders and filled the beds with transplanted perennial herbs and flowers.
If you would like to have your garden, chicken coop or something you’ve made featured on One Hundred Dollars a Month, here’s what I’m looking for:
- Your Garden Pictures and Tips – I’d especially like to see your garden set ups, growing areas, and know if you are starting seeds indoors this year. If so, show me some picture of how you are going about it.
- Your Chicken and Chicken Related Stories – Coops, Chicks, Hen’s, Roosters, Eggs, you name it. If it clucks, send us some pictures to share with the world.
- Cool Arts & Crafts – Made from your very own hands with detailed {and well photographed} pictures and instructions.
- Your pictures and stories about your pets. The more pictures and details the better.
- Garage Sale, Thrift Store and Dumpster Diving pictures and the stories behind the treasures you found including how much you paid for them.
If I feature your pictures and the stories behind them on One Hundred Dollars a Month, I will send you a $20.00 gift card to the greatest store in the world: Amazon.com.
Go HERE for the official rules.
Lisa Millar says
What a gorgeous home and property!
Was lovely to read about your journey and lifestyle!
Katie says
would love to know if Stacy built or renovated that home? I’m completely jealous and would love to do something like that here in Charleston, SC. We’ve been looking at building a barn home for the last year. Big dreams!
Stacy says
@LM – Thank you! @Katie – The home was designed and built to look like a barn after we looked, unsuccessfully, to find the right barn in the right location. We used reclaimed materials from a deconstructed century home (mostly on the interior).