Ruschioni Homestead

Just finished scheduling all of the Kid’s Week sessions for summer! This year we are offering both half and Full day options so be sure to choose the right option for your campers! We’ve added LOTS of new projects 🙂
(Visit this link and scroll to bottom to view all available dates)

Kids Week at Ruschioni Homestead 2023 FULL-Day Camp WK1 Spend a week learning how to grow food and care for livestock while making new friends and having fun! Children ages 5-17

We will have a raffle table set up during the Casual Serious Sports Co****le Tournament tomorrow at the Cruisin 12 Diner! Proceeds go towards a Kid’s Week Farm Camp Scholarship! Our homestead raised pork will also be on the special menu! Stop by starting at 2pm to join the fun!

We will be announcing Youth Roller sign ups soon! We will be playing out of Gardner every saturday afternoon all off season!

Thank you for all the early support! We love seeing our jerseys on kids at various hockey practices.

Ruschioni Homestead updated their business hours.

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“Farm work doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you anything. It reveals you.
There’s gym strong and then there’s farm strong. They’re mutually exclusive. The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a farm.

There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine. You can tie up a hole in a slow feeder, fashion a tail strap for a horse’s blanket, mend a broken fence and use it as a belt.

“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.
Control is a mere illusion. The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.
Sometimes sleep is a luxury. So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.

If you’ve never felt your obliques contract, then you’ve never tried stopping an overly full wheelbarrow of horse manure from tipping over sideways. Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.

When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort.
Their needs come first. In summer heat and coldest winter days. Clean water, clean bed, and plenty of feed. Before you have your first meal, they all eat.

When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.
You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully. You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.
You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.

You will, at least once, face-plant in the manure pile. You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.
You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.
You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p. People will look at you sideways and krinkle their noses but you won’t care.
Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.
You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.

Farm work is difficult in its simplicity.
You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.
Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a farm, take the chance! You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.”

-Author Unknown

Did you know we keep a selection of boxes & baskets on hand so that when you are shopping for gifts, we can easily help you assemble a beautiful present? Well-we do!😊
Open today 12-4🎉

I can’t believe these classes are right around the corner! 😊🎉

Holiday Wreath Workshop 3 Design and create a beautiful holiday wreath out of fresh evergreens and accessories during this fun workshop with friends!

My Talented friend Tiffany Newton will be hosting this workshop series at the shop, grab a ticket today!

Sunday Crafternoon Crochet for ages 8+. Adults and children alike.

We released one more date for our Holiday Wreath Making Workshop! Make sure to save your seats soon, the first two dates sold out quickly! I am looking forward to celebrating with you all!❤
*link to Holiday Centerpiece Workshop in comments*
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/197998317297

Holiday Wreath Workshop 3 Design and create a beautiful holiday wreath out of fresh evergreens and accessories during this fun workshop with friends!

We opened a third date for wreath making after hearing that some of you were sad to miss sign ups!

Holiday Wreath Workshop 3 Design and create a beautiful holiday wreath out of fresh evergreens and accessories during this fun workshop with friends!

Holiday Centerpiece Workshop 2 Join this fun workshop and learn how to make your own beautiful, long-lasting centerpiece made of fresh evergreens, candles, & accessories!

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Holiday Centerpiece Workshop 2 Join this fun workshop and learn how to make your own beautiful, long-lasting centerpiece made of fresh evergreens, candles, & accessories!

Holiday Wreath Workshop 2 Design and create a beautiful holiday wreath out of fresh evergreens and accessories during this fun workshop with friends!

Winter workshops are listed! So much fun!
Extra workshop links in comments 😊

Holiday Wreath Workshop 1 Design and create a beautiful holiday wreath out of fresh evergreens and accessories during this fun workshop with friends!

Sun’s out, Fun’s out! 😊 Stop by the shop today 10-2 and be sure to check out my friend Norma’s-table out front! 🎉

Happy Monday friends! Today has been a good day of “catch up” around here, much needed after our hockey& activity packed weekend! Along with housework, I’ve been working on getting things ready to store for the winter: garlic trimmed &brushed, potatoes dug up, and slowly making my way through vegetable & flower seeds that need to be harvested and stored until spring. What are you up to today?

I had the great honor of creating wedding florals for our dear friends and last week❤️ These flowers were so special to me not only because they were arranged with love for a couple that means the world to us, but also because almost all of them were grown in my garden, and sourced from other local farms! One of the farms , even grew seeds from that I was able to include in the bouquets-(Erin is a big inspiration to me!) It was also a wonderful confirmation to me that I still love creating event flowers 💐 Wishing the newest Mr.&Mrs. Ducharme many, many years of wedded bliss!❤️🎉

The shop is open today and tomorrow 10-2!🎉 Stop in and see what’s new!

I have an Usborne Books & More party going on this week, if you want to check out what’s new and get some great books for your kids, here is the link! 😊

https://c8395.myubam.com/2217264

Usborne Books & More View our current catalog which features the complete line of Usborne and Kane Miller titles. Need help? Just ask your Consultant.

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Grapevine Wreath Workshop Customize your own beautiful, everlasting, grapevine wreath during this fun workshop with friends!

The Homestead kids are running their lemonade stand today 10-1 outside the
They have banana bread, double chocolate zucchini bread, no bake cookies, brownies, sunflower jars, and of course: lemonade for sale!
They purchased cups and bags made from recycled materials & that are compostable❤️
Shop is open 10-1 as well🎉😊

The shop is open today 10-2🎉

Open today 3-6:30🎉

Years in the making, this land was heavily wooded when we moved in. Tony has worked tirelessly cutting and clearing trees to let in the sunlight. We have run pigs to loosen roots and awaken sleeping seedbanks. The ground has had time to rest and recover. Grass has begun to grow. Here, ‘s vision of rotationally grazed, pasture raised chicken becomes a reality. Good job babe, endlessly proud of you!🎉

We have 2 workshops listed for September!🎉
If you scroll to the bottom of this link you will see the other class as well 😊

Grapevine Wreath Workshop Customize your own beautiful, everlasting, grapevine wreath during this fun workshop with friends!

The shop is open today until 6:30🎉

The end of August/early September are always the busiest time of garden season for us. Not only is production heavy, but extra time needs to be spent processing and preserving all the garden goodness!
The last of the summer squash/zucchini plants will be shred and saved in the freezer for future baking (I have a large, healthy one from each of my favorite varieties set aside to save the seeds from).
Beans are getting chopped & frozen (our family doesn’t care for the texture of canned beans), along with some being dried for future winter chili. Cucumbers are being turned into pickles or relish. Tomatoes will be frozen as they ripen and turned into sauce this fall as time allows. I’ve also been making jams and jellies while certain fruits are in season.
Are you preserving your harvest? What are your favorites?!