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Meet Sabrina

Hello there! I’m Sabrina, mom of 4, city girl turned unexpected gardener. Join me as I figure out how to gain food freedom and show you how to be more self sufficient! Read more about me here.

The Unexpected Gardener
The Unexpected Gardener

You don’t need a huge amount of land or animals to live a homestead life. The modern definition of homesteader is “lifestyle of self sufficiency” and we will talk about all things that make you get closer to that. I’m a city girl that learned self sufficiency skills and I am determined to start a food revolution, teaching others to start right where you are.
Things could get salty as we explore topics like gardening, sourdough, the broken food system and breaking free of the system that wants to keep us obedient.

S2E15 – Chicken Keeping 101 With The Girly Homesteader
bySabrina Key

If you have wanted to start keeping chickens but have no idea where to start my friend Laura from The Girly Homesteader does not disappoint! She breaks it all down. I took two pages of notes and feel so much more prepared.

Here are a few notes and links of the products that Laura mentioned.

Colored Egg Breeds

  • Americanas/Easter Eggers/Ameraucanas
  • Olive Eggers
  • Cream Legbar

Dark Egg Breed

  • Black Copper Maran

Broody Chickens

  • Australorps
  • Orpingtons

Zeolite containing coop additives to neutralize Ammonia

  • Sweet PDZ: https://a.co/d/cusnmqL
  • Coop Recuperate: https://a.co/d/c3VETHK

Poultry Nipples https://carolinacoopsflockshop.com/products/horizontal-side-mount-chicken-waterer-nipples?variant=43402825007354Auto Chicken Door

https://run-chicken.com/doors/?srsltid=AfmBOopmlKx9Xg59SJM4sc2kcIu6O9lRY0BvSE7H_BVAFaGmpm9m8AMZGrubbly Farms Food

https://grubblyfarms.com?ref=thegirlyhomesteader&utm_source=thegirlyhomesteader&utm_medium=affiliate

S2E15 – Chicken Keeping 101 With The Girly Homesteader
S2E15 – Chicken Keeping 101 With The Girly Homesteader
March 26, 2025
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S2E14 – Calm The Heck Down!
March 12, 2025
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S2E13 – Prep Like a Boss! Guest Laura Breaks it Down
March 5, 2025
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S2E12 – Restoration Farm (dreams can come true!)
February 12, 2025
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S2E11 – Greyson’s Story Part 2
February 4, 2025
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S2 E10 – Greyson’s Story Part 1
January 28, 2025
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S2E9 – 2024 Garden Lessons Learned
January 15, 2025
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S2E8 – My Take On Conspiracy Theories
October 16, 2024
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S2E7 – How Do People Like Us Prepare For a Disaster?
October 9, 2024
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S2E6 – Poison Food in Schools & Dock Worker Strike
October 1, 2024
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Want to be self sufficient? Grow your own food? Cook from scratch? Connect to local farmers? You can do that without land or skills. I can teach you.

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If having a sourdough class for you and your frien If having a sourdough class for you and your friends in your home sounds fun I have good news! The Unexpected Gardener is offering home classes this fall with two amazing teachers. It’s a huge amount of fun and the hands on is a total game changer. With the holidays coming, it’s such a great time to learn sourdough. If you’re local and interested shoot me a DM and I can give you details and availability.
The garden gives so much. It takes a lot too. Tim The garden gives so much. It takes a lot too. Time, sweat, thought and sometimes even tears (I’m looking at you leaf footed bugs) This has been a season of trial and even though I haven’t been as on top of my garden as I would like, it’s still giving me this delicious organic food. I went out this morning after 3 days of ignoring the garden and picked this! She woos me back again and again no matter how difficult. Like any hard season, it passes and a new one begins. God is still good. “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. Ecclesiastes 3 1-8
My first ever Kajari melon. I still can’t belie My first ever Kajari melon. I still can’t believe I can grow beautiful food like this in my backyard. God is so good to us, created food like this. It’s beautiful and delicious and such a gift. Have you ever eaten a kajari melon before?
20 years! You are a gift Travis. We have built su 20 years! You are a gift Travis. We have built such a satisfying life and the fact that we get to do this together is just humbling and wonderful. 4 kids , ups and downs but always Jesus at the helm. You’re my person and the longer we are married the less I feel like I need to leave the house 😂 It’s always you I want to talk to and it always will be. And you’re so lucky that I’m so funny 🩷 I can’t believe it’s been 20 years already. Here’s to 20 more!
We are beginning the summer bounty of all the amaz We are beginning the summer bounty of all the amazing vegetables and fruits. We are past strawberry season but other berries are ripe now like blueberries. We have begun to pick ripe tomatoes in our garden and are eating them with every meal. We rarely buy tomatoes in the off season so we stuff ourselves full in the summer and preserve what we can for winter eating. By the end of summer you will see loads of melons and corn! I can’t wait to start to eat the first harvests of corn. We try to eat what is in season as best we can. There is something so magical about eating your fill until you’re almost sick of it only to joyfully anticipate them the next year! What your favorite summer crop?
I’ve always struggled with social media and the I’ve always struggled with social media and the algorithms and the way they change so often. The rebel side of me often pushes back against playing their game for more reach. In 2023 I grew a ton and launched a website for digital products and free guides. It was so much fun to see so many people getting my sourdough recipe and pantry guide. This community grew and I started to bond with so many of you. It’s so weird to care about total strangers all around the world. Strangers I have never met but consider friends now. The last few months have been drastically different as far as my reach. People keep messaging me and telling me suddenly they didn’t see me in their feed and had to go look for me. My growth basically stopped. 2024 also brought in some amazing things that I’m doing in my community. I started teaching sourdough classes, gardening classes and the local food collaborative I started in 2022 @wake_forest_local_food grew a ton. I’m having an impact on so many locals to grow their own food, support local farmers and begin cooking more from scratch and sourdough. It’s been incredibly rewarding. The thing about social media is that my connection with you is controlled by someone else. I control my local connections and I control my blog and email list. Please visit my bio and get on my email list. So I made a decision. I will use IG not as a content creator but as a woman who loves growing food, making sourdough, cooking from scratch, localizing my food and teaching about why that’s so important. I don’t care about the algorithms anymore. I canceled the website with all my digital products on it. I will only keep the affiliate relationships I currently have that I use and love. I’m going to keep growing this movement but I refuse to fit into this alter reality anymore. Social media can be an immense blessing but it’s also not real life. I can’t control so much of what I’ve built here. So here’s to the new social media era. It’s called FREEDOM
That’s a thing right? All I know is there are t That’s a thing right? All I know is there are tomatoes and cucumbers on every counter in the kitchen and I’m not mad about it. Grow your own food! It’s the best
So grateful for this wonderful man and how he fath So grateful for this wonderful man and how he fathers our children. He is the most humble and loving husband and father. How he serves us encompasses true masculinity. He prays for us. He protects us. He puts us before himself. He models godliness. He works hard. He’s kind. He directs us towards Jesus. He loves us so fiercely. I could go on and on. Happy Father’s Day to my amazing husband. I can’t do this life without you. So grateful God gave you to me and so grateful for the family we have created together. Your legacy will live on for generations.
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