Homestead Projects for the Winter Season – Epi-3761
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2025 has been an odd year from a weather stand point for us anyway. The early summer was pretty amazing with far more rainfall than typical with more mild temperatures as well. Everything was super green even at the end of June. I knew the other shoe would drop and by July it did. The rain said, good bye see you in October and kept it’s word. The heat jacked up into daily trips well into the triple digits and the new chickens all but wrecked my main garden. So much for my theory that fat lazy Jersey Giants would not fly up to my super high 2.5 foot raised beds. Wrong.
The last few weeks though? One huge rain near the end of Oct and a break to the heat and the entire property is green, the gardens are full on into the winter cover crop and my planning mind is in full force in getting the property and our life realigned going into 2026.
And this is the time for doing that no matter where you live. The winter for a homesteader brings new work and challenges but also down time to think and free time to work. The key is maximizing it!
Join Me Today to Discuss…
- Some Announcements
- Laws of Life is on Sale
- Chef Ken will be live with me tomorrow for Thanksgiving meal prep
- Why now is the time
- Step one is evaluate what you did this year
- What worked
- What didn’t
- What was clearly a losing play
- What did you enjoy doing, eating and having
- Now use that to plan your next steps
- Do more of what worked, if you need to
- Fix or abandon what failed
- Decide what you want to do next
- Setting priority
- Determine how much time and money each idea will cost you
- Develop a time and money budget for the entire period
- Determine what each project will do for you
- Now set priority and develop a time line
- Make sure to schedule things by dates
- Some things I am planning this year
- Remodel of the TSP Studio
- New aquaponics cloning and plant system in the main shop building
- Removing more of my dead and damaged trees
- Making the annual bioreactor batches this time with massive fungal infusions
- Elimination of some one perhaps two of my external aquatic systems
- Optimize the property for ease of a caretaker so we can travel more
- Complete the draft of Laws of Life Two before EOY and begin my next book
- Set up several fishing trips for the community
- Keep land shopping for a property in Tennessee (30 mins or less from The Holler Homestead)
- Get ready for the relaunch of the AI course and develop 1-2 more AI courses (stand alone ones)
- What will you get done this winter
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