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Snowy Horses 🐴❄️

Our mini horses enjoying the snowy morning ❄️❄️❄️ Cooper Cooper and Penny Thanks so much!!...

Fence line

Looking down the fence line of our horse paddock. I thought the angles looked interesting. Thanks...

Fungus on a log 🍄

Just thought this looked cool. Went for a walk in our woods this morning and this just screamed photo!!! Thanks for stopping!!...

Grin and Bear it 🐻

Our lane from the main road back to our house is about a quarter of mile long. The southern foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in south central Pennsylvania...

15 cans of applesauce 🍎🍏

All organic ... non - gmo... locally grown 15 cans of applesauce... one cracked in the canner and one was devoured by my kiddos while it was still warm🍎🍏...

Sweet Potato 🍠 haul !!

I have never planted sweet potatoes in my life. I figured this year was year to give it a shot. I got my inspiration from Danny of Deep South Homestead. Watchin...

Saturday was canning day !!!

This past Saturday, over the Labor Day weekend, we spent the day in the kitchen canning. Got up early and freshly picked a bunch of Roma tomatoes, cored them an...

Wonderful Free Air Show 🎈

What a wonderful opportunity to get a free air show while visiting some friends. Dear friends of ours had invited us for a backyard dinner, a once a year event ...

The latest additions to Beyond Mountains Homestead 🐱🐯🦁🐆

We have been in need of a barn cat for sometime now. So a friend of ours knew of a cat that needed a home. She was an outdoor cat named Cleo. So we said we woul...

Missing Eggs ?

We have several laying hens here on our homestead. We get plenty of awesome eggs. But... then production started to drop off ....why ??? Well, I found that a fe...

A Double Rainbow

After a quick rain storm a few days ago, I caught these shots of a beautiful double rainbow over a farm field. Have a great one !!...

Peaches, Blackberries, and Bees, Oh My!

We took a family trip up to Howard County, Maryland to gather baskets of blackberries and boxes of tree-ripe peaches. The farm we visited boasts several varieti...

What a week can do 🐇

About a week ago, I posted some photos of some newborn rabbits. Nearly hairless, eyes still shut and barely able to move. One week later and a dramatic differen...

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 🦋

A beautiful Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on our butterfly bush. Truth in advertising 🤓 Thanks for stopping by !!...

New Additions to the Homestead 🐰🐇

When doe rabbits get pregnant they wiil line their nests with their own fur. They usually do this a week or two in advance of the births. This is helpful to me,...

Fruits and Veggies Monday - Addictive Carrot Pulling And Funky Fine Kohlrabi

I got back from a run yesterday and went straight to the garden in my backyard, where I like to put the breaks on my sweat downpour before I head inside the hou...

My Backyard Garden - Fresh Food Grown with Love

I wasn't always such an avid gardener. But ... the more I read about GMO's, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, etc., the more I know that it has to be better ...

Barn and Farm Art at Beyond Mountains Homestead 🌞

Just a few shots of the barn art at our homestead. Hope you all enjoy 👨🏻‍🌾 This one would have Wranglerstar in a tizzy😳 This Claddagh weathervane shows my I...

Building A Rabbit Hutch

Last year I decided to build a rabbit hutch.  As with all my projects, I sketched the general design with the desired dimensions on graph paper and built i...

Hummingbird Clearwing on a Rose of Sharon Bud

I had no clue what this was until I got home from the hike where I photographed it. https://steemitimages.com/DQmcBLB8Mg6ByRx3QpQ125t5kYvF7E6x1EBWKjfJKc39tUN/un...