Mountain Prairie Homestead Kids' Blog

By James Morford age 13   This year my siblings and I started to save money to buy a pony . We started plant starts for planting in our garden to sell the produce. To start the plants, we soaked Peat Moss pellets in warm water until they were about an inch tall, then we put the pellets in Pellet trays, planed the seeds we wanted to sprout in them, and put them in a little greenhouse. It took them a long time to sprout but eventually (about two weeks) they did. You can start any plant you want, but not all of them will live. A few months later, our starts were really big. Sometimes the starts have too much water and grow five inches tall. After the starts had mature leaves (about a month after they sprouted), we transplanted them into bigger pots. Not all the starts lived through the transplanting, but most of the starts did. I am growing a melon garden with the starts we started. I also found an acorn up the canyon and started it in a little white pot with some potting soil and now it

  Ponies! by Lucy age 11 My brother and I were saving and saving money for a pony. We had saved $250. Then I felt very strongly that I should text a woman that my neighbor had suggested I contact about a pony. She said that she had a male that is really nice and she would sell him to us for $600.  With the gelding (which means that the male can't make the  female pregnant), would be $800. I thought that that was cheap.  Then I told her that  we had saved $250. She said that we should play with our pony over the summer and  that she would sell him to us for $250. That's so amazing!!! SO we are going to get  him in a few week and I am so excited!!! Now my brother and I are saving more  money to get the supplies and right now we are not able to get a hold of a person  that has horse panels. I am kind of frustrated because I only have a few weeks to  get ready for him. I will update about it in my next post.