Bunnies and Mulberries (Barely Any Reading, I Swear) (Lauren)

This will be a quick post, but its adorable-ness speaks volumes. Also, a picture is worth a thousand words, right?

Our Redneck Express Run (Lauren)

So, I know Austin already posted about the run and enthused a little but, I want to give my take on the story too! I have to write a few more posts to catch up to him (it's like some weird unspoken competition between us). Also, I'll write this so all of you lucky readers can learn a little more about the bunny run and its makers!

The Redneck Express (Austin)

If you've looked at the photo of our rabbit hutches, you'll see they stand on caged floors. That's okay and isn't bad for them. But we wanted to give them a break and have the chance to get onto the grass and relax their feet, as well as play together. So we decided to make a simple, lightweight rabbit run (like a chicken run, but not for chickens). Today we started and finished our latest project, and as you can probably guess from the photo below it didn't take too much time to get done.

Setting Down Our First Roots (Lauren)

I warned Austin. I swear I did (at least seven times) to NOT trust me with any plants. Not one. Not ever. But he's stubborn and didn't heed my warning and we were off to the community garden within a week of the last frost (well, hailstorm actually).

It Is the Rabbits (Austin)

Our most recent addition to the urban homestead is a collection of three rabbits. Okay, so they're not tactical attack rabbits like the one pictured above, but we are really excited about them nonetheless. In our area, there are no chickens or ducks or anything like that allowed within the city limits because they make noise and raise a stink very quickly. But rabbits are have no current litigation against them

We Started with Worms (Austin)

I had done a lot of reading about homesteading and self-sufficiency for a while before I realized that I felt the call to do it. But when I felt God's purpose for me take a turn towards this path we're on, I

Baby Steps (Austin)

Since this is the premiere entry in this blog, I imagine that most folks who read this will already know my girlfriend and I as well as our situation. If so, feel free to skip the next paragraph.

We are college students at the University of Northern Iowa. Neither of us grew up on a farm or really has any agricultural experience. We have no land to our names, and right now we just live in regular apartments and dorms like most college students do. But we are working and saving for an acreage