College Hill Farm

 We have decided to pause the blog over the fall. We are just too covered up with other stuff in order to do justice to the Video Channel, Facebook, and the Blog. Something has to give. I love writing the blog but there is just so much time each day and summer is tough on this old man. So when the weather turns a little and the garden slacks down I will return to writing the blog posts.  Thank you to those who come for the blogs, videos, and posts.  Joel

  While the average homesteader will have a garden the old time homesteaders depended heavily on meat and meat byproducts. Here on our homestead we grow a large garden. It is approximately 1 ½ acres. Each year we produce about 500,000 calories in garden produce. If we consider a 2000 calorie per day diet then for an entire year the average person needs 730,000 calories over the course of the year. For the two of us that comes out to 1.4 million calories per year. Where do most those other calories come from, well, for me and Crystal it comes one third from our garden and the rest from meats, fats and sugars. While there is quite a craze these days about keto diets, we have not adopted this lifestyle. I still love potatoes, rice, jams, jellies, and bread. My homesteader grandparents and parents loved them too. What we grow in our garden includes – Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cabbage, Turnips, Beets, Radishes, Rutabagas, Corn, Beans, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Tomatoes, Peppers, Onions, Carr