I'm super stoked that it's my Steemit Birthday today :) Yes, it's been one year since I was birthed through the great Steem womb.

It's been an amazing year so far, and I could never have had so much success here if it wasn't for YOU! Thank you for believing in me. Thank you for being interested in our family's life! Thank you for your kind words, and your generosity, I've written about it a couple times now that YOU all have helped our family through some pretty tough times. Through the Steem blockchain we are finally able to have a bit of financial breathing room.

So what better way to celebrate than show you all what my beautiful sons and I have been up to in high harvest time. They bring so much life, and are the greatest helpers I could ever ask for...

Kiedis, 7 years old. He's my best and most enthusiastic gardener, but he's a bit on the clumsy side, shhh don't tell him I said so. He's so great at planting and harvesting, yet he squishes a lot of plants too hahahahhahaa. Of course I never say anything mean to him about it, I wouldn't want to discourage him from helping me do one of the most important jobs in our family.

I need him so much, look how he can get into all the tight places!

This was Kiedis' haul, great job Son!

Next I'd like to introduce you to our eldest son, Eddie who is 13.

Eddie is so amazing especially with the chickens. He spends a lot of time with them, has names for almost all, and in general refers to them as "his babes". Here he is filling up their water, again, they go through quite a bit of it in the summer time. He also helps me with carrying the huge bags of feed, straw, and cleaning out their coop. I don't know what I'd do without him, and neither would his babes. Every day he catches them, carries them all around, brings them in the house, and lets them roost on his arm. When he gets home from school the first thing he does, before even saying hi to me, is go and see how his babes are doing.

Eddie and Don King, in the house...as usual.

Eddie and Mr. Pendock, or as Ed calls him "My Big Man".

And last but certainly not least, our youngest Son, Stryder, who just turned 6.

We're both pretty excited at the amount of tomatoes he harvested today! He's super great at getting into all the tight places in my big greenhouse jungle.

Beyond Vegetables...

Another big job that we've been working at lately is harvesting all the seeds we need for next year to ensure that Food Stays Free.

Spinach.

That's a lot of seed hey? We will be mailing a bunch out to friends and family to make sure their food stays free too. Another reason to collect seeds, for SHARING!

Radish.

That's a lot of seed from one radish hey? Well, that wasn't even the whole plant! I still have about half left to still get the seeds out of, but why rush things right?

Thank you so much for witnessing a piece of my heart, the largest piece...my beautiful, incredibly talented children. Thank you also for being on Steemit, it's only just begun...our amazing journey here, a social media platform that is literally changing lives for the better every single day.

If you're not bored yet, and would like to take a tour of our whole homestead watch: Grow Food Not Lawns Canada - September 2nd, 2017