This is one of those questions that long time chicken keepers all have strong opinions on. Should you worm your chickens regularly or should you rely on dietary supplements to keep them healthy? In the end, it’s a question that every flock owner needs to answer for themselves based on their on their own personal …
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So you are ready to start your first garden? Congratulations! There is nothing more satisfying than growing your own food! It can also be incredibly difficult and frustrating, especially when you are first starting out. Check out these 7 beginner gardening mistakes to avoid. Mistake #1 – Improper Garden Placement This is probably the mistake most …
Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: real food recipes, farm animals, crafts, DIY, how-to’s, gardening, anything from-scratch, natural home/health, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, natural remedies, essential oils, & more! Basically anything related to homesteading. Meet and Follow Your Hosts! Kelly – Simple Life …
Who here remembers going to the park to feed the ducks when they were a child? I know I do! It was something I always looked forward to. I still vividly remember one day after preschool tossing bread to the ducks and leaning so far over the edge I fell into the pond! I’m sure …
Farming is an incredibly challenging career. Managing hundreds of acres of crops or hundreds of animals, keeping it all running smoothly, battling the elements, unexpected early frosts, drought, disease….it is certainly not something to undertake casually. Backyard farming in the suburbs might not have challenges on the scale of commercial farming, but it comes with …
Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! The weather here on the Cape has been so up and down lately, near historic record highs in the upper 60s (unheard of around here for February) and then dropping down back to more normal 30s. But I can feel it, spring is just around the corner. I was super …
Aren’t old cookbooks the best? My mom has an old copy of a Farm Journal Canning & Freezing Cookbook from the 70s or 80s. I have photocopied lots of recipes from there to put in my big recipe binder. I particularly like this book because you can almost read it like a novel, there are interesting …
Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! I’m so glad you are here with us today! If you leave a link, make sure you link back to our blog hop in the article – we choose three featured articles every week, but only from the posts that link back! Now on to the hop… Homestead Blog …
Rabbits are fiercely independent animals, combine that with prey animal instincts that tell them to run & hide, and it’s easy to see why many people think rabbits make stand-offish, boring pets. But the truth is, rabbits are really social animals. They would love the opportunity to interact with you or play with toys. Playtime …
They say that ducks are the “new chickens” – backyard farmers all over the country are beginning to enjoy the pleasure of keeping ducks. Our ducks are all different breeds because I enjoy variety and I like being able to tell them apart….and because there are so many great breeds I couldn’t choose just one! Before …