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Ambitious goals

Long ago, when we were living in Maryland we had the goal to reduce our grocery store consumption.  We set ourselves a limit of only shopping local and minimal shopping at the grocery store. Here's the link to that challenge.   Tough Decisions Now due to worldwide events, we are revisiting that idea however instead we're challenging ourselves to grow as much as we can ourselves.  This means fruits, vegetables, proteins and herbs. Thanks to my husband who gave me a go-pro for Christmas I will now be filming quite a bit of what happens on our property so now you can follow us as we face challenges, celebrate successes, and work to produce over 80% of our food. Friday we received our honeybees and we hived them Saturday, 18April. This weekend we will also be tapping birch trees which will be used for birch syrup and birch wine.  I'll be putting up videos shortly as we accomplish all of this and more. Now that being said, Blogger has been relatively hard to work with wh