Hello Everybody! My name is Kimberly and.....
Hello Everybody! My name is Kimberly and I am pumped about getting my account so I can start steeming away. My husband and I exited our Corporate Careers in Tennessee during Spring of 2015, with a decision to begin chasing our dreams. We sold our home and most our possessions and moved to Guatemala to fulfill one of both our bucket list items of living Internationally. I would have been fine with staying in Guatemala forever but my Love wanted to move on to VA. After about 6 months of decompressing, he was ready to get moved onto our Land we had also been dreaming of starting a farm on, and giving our best shot at being more self sufficient. So here we are beginning the next phase of our lives on the farm, experiencing and learning all we can on this beautiful Mira Mountain.
I am a huge fan of vegetable and flower gardening but until our small garden last year, it has been many years since working with the veggies. My biggest passion is likely with houseplants. I am a hoarder for sure. I want them all and I like to keep them forever. I hired a plant sitter when we moved out of the country as obviously I couldn’t take them. I had two very large plants that I have had all my life and then I made starts off the others that I just did not want to live without. I was so happy to be able to keep some of my living prized possessions. I have dreamed of a greenhouse (garden room) my whole life and was able to fulfill that dream when we built our home. The Greenhouse is A whole new learning experience which will definitely become a blog at some point. One of the great joys was using white oak from our property for the timbers in the Greenhouse. The inside is paneled with sideboards off those same timbers. Designing this dream and living here during the build was one of the best experiences ever. This past year I started making wine. I have 4 small batches under my belt now and I can tell you that I am hooked on making my own.
I also love me some adventure travel. Nothing like visiting and embracing new cultures, people, food and going to the less traveled destinations for sure. My husband @qberry has written several articles about our travels so I will spare you the duplicate details. I do have a couple of favorite pictures from our adventure travels. It makes me feel badass for sure. We did ice wall climbing in Alaska at the Matanuska Glacier. Making it to the top of that Ice wall was something else! Hell, just learning to walk with Crampons was badass 😊
My little Family consists of my husband Chad and my favorite girl Onyx. Onyx is a rescued mixed German Shepherd and my best bud. She has been with us since October of 2008 and has brought so much joy to our lives. She rules the roost right now and I cannot imagine life without her.
I am excited to make friends with house plant enthusiasts, veggie and flower gardners, wine makers, fermenters, cooks, adventure travelers and pet lovers of all kinds. Regarding the Garden and Canning, I have plenty of space to fill in my canning room. I gave it my best shot last year, but only water bath canning. This year I am starting ‘real’ canning! I also love to decorate, not necessarily buying new things or thrifting for new things. I just love moving what you have and finding new uses for things in your house.
I want to always be a student, to be open minded, Kind to all and give back at every opportunity. Thank you for reading my intro. I honestly look so forward to meeting and learning together. Peace to All! Kimberly
Welcome! Looking forward to reading about your adventures in fermenting, canning and gardening. I wish I was in a position to travel internationally, but it is not the season for me. Currently I have 4 kids at home under 9. And, we are in the midst of trying to build our house on our land we purchased in the Ozarks. Great pictures by the way! There is quite the photography community out here that you'll want to get acquainted with.
WOW! You have your hands full! I wish you all the best on your build and hope to keep in touch. Thank you for stopping by!
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Awesome. @qberryfarms is trying to reply and accept, but unfortunately she has hit the dreaded bandwidth limit and cannot right now. thank you!
Oh curses! The dreaded bandwidth! UGH!
Ok.. if she accepts I will add her to the nomination list.
Thanks. That bw seems so arbitrary. I know it's not, but I never had any issues with it and was even more active than her. the things it says causes you to lose a lot of bandwidth she hasn't been doing. just seems weird, I guess we'll have to do a bit of research on that topic.
WOW! Yes, I will accept. Thank you so much!
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I turned in your post for the nomination list! Good luck!
WELCOME!!! You finally made it here!!!! We've been waiting your arrival (sounds kind of silly and sci-fi'ish!)
Great introductory post too!
Is it too soon to say how jealous I am of your pantry.. wine... and EVERYTHING!!!
Thank you! I am happy to start making new friends and sharing info and experiences. I am glad you approve of the intro. Seems like the hardest part. Thanks again for the kind words!
That greenhouse is stunning! I am really excited to see more about your gardening...and canning...and wine... ;)
Thank you so much. I love hanging out in there and It is so warm I could nap, but there is too much to do just yet. I have been planting Many flower bulbs that will stay in the Greenhouse because of the Deer. I have a few seeds started for the garden but we don't plant outside until end of May and So I am planning to start most seeds next week. Hoping for a good peach year. We have two old trees on the property and I would love peach wine. I had to fight the bear for 3 pans of peaches last year. He ate almost all the Apples and pretty much all the peaches. Living harmoniously can be difficult :)
Ditto on your beautiful greenhouse @qberryfarms ❤
Thank you so much. I appreciate it! I waited my whole life to build it and I feel like a little girl with a new doll house. SO thankful!
Welcome to the steemit family Kimberly @ qberryfarms! :D You are going to love it here. :D Everyone is very helpful, willing to share their knowledge and tips on everything from parenting to cryptocurrency. :D Its fantastic! :D If you'd like to check out the #homesteadersonline and #gratefulvibes tags I think you'll find a lot of posts with similar interests to yours shared in both those tags. :D
Wow you have a lovely home. I love your greenhouse and your canning room/pantry/wine room. :D How long did it take to build the greenhouse? Did you do all the design yourselves or did you hire someone to make your vision come to life? Either way it is beautiful. :D
Some day we'd love to have a nice big greenhouse here on our homestead with raised beds so I can help weed and harvest. :D Your puppy Onyx is so pretty. We love puppy dogs, we've got 2 puppies and 4 grand-puppies here on our homestead. :D
Please feel free to come visit my blog and catch up on our days on the homestead any time. :D
God bless you and your family. :D Have an awesome day! :D
Thanks so much for the Tags to check out. I will do just that. I am so thankful to be in the House and have the Ghouse finished. It took about 4 months to build but we started in Jan last year and the timbers took several days to set with a crane. We had an issue with sizing on some of the roof panels and had to reorder so that was a delay. It was only about 5 months for everything including walk inside, potting bench and shelving. The architect for our house drew up our Greenhouse plan from a picture I had saved since 2006. I designed the inside layout and benches/shelves. Thank you for the kind compliments. I am very thankful to have it and hope I will be able to use it to its full potential.
You're welcome. :D It is one of the loveliest greenhouses I've ever seen. I don't think ours will be quite as pretty as yours, but hopefully it will be very productive. :D I'm sure you will grow a lot of wonderful things and I look forward to yours posts about them all. :D
God bless you and your family. :D Have an awesome day my friend! :D
You are so sweet! Thank you!
Awe, that is kind of you to say, thank you very much. :D
You're welcome. :D
Have an awesome day! :D
Welcome!! I wish I could say I was a gardener, flower enthusiast and wine maker (especially the wine) but sadly I can't. I tried and failed (many time) to grow veggies and flowers....in fact my fake plants look to be dead already. LOL While I'd love to make wine, I have only got as far as drinking it. LOL
But, I wish you the warmest welcome here on Steemit and hope you find many friends here.
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You are cracking me up. I think you just need to drink more wine :) Thanks for stopping by and the well wishes. They are much appreciated.
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It is so nice to read your intro. I am glad to have met you here. All the best to your projects and the garden. Please do take your time and get acquainted with the various projects of steemit
Thank you and so nice to have met you too!
Welcome to Steemit, I wish you a wonderful time here!
I love traveling and dogs! :)
We also have our garden where we grow veggies and some fruits, my mom and dad are in charge of that mostly.
By the way, that wine looks tasty!
Hello There! We have only drank one bottle and it was quite tasty. I made 4 small batches so they are ready at different times. Thanks for stopping by!