Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop #112! Thanks for stopping by to see this week’s great ideas & recipes. Be sure to check back all week long as new, great articles are added every day! If you are here to share your great ideas – welcome! Link back to our hop, and we will be sharing…
Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop #111! Thanks for stopping by to see this week’s great ideas & recipes. Be sure to check back all week long as new, great articles are added every day! If you are here to share your great ideas – welcome! Link back to our hop, and we will be sharing…
If you own fiber rabbits you know that keeping their coats clean and mat free can be a very time-consuming job. For the most part, there are three ways of harvesting the fibers – plucking, shearing & combing. They can all be done humanely and above all, none should cause the rabbit any harm…
Fall on the homestead is a transition season. For the most part the garden has been put to bed, the harvest canned and stored. Just like your garden harvest, you will notice your egg harvest vastly decreases as we come to the end of “egg season”. In our modern world with 24 hour grocery stores we…
I am so excited to announce that I am now a co-host of the Homestead Blog Hop along with a great group of wonderful ladies! I have always found a lot of inspiration and great ideas here and I know you will too! In case you don’t know what a blog hop is, let me break it…
Ducks make a wonderful addition to any backyard farm. They are curious & friendly with such sweet little faces! You know they are super cute, but did you know these 11 Amazing Facts About Ducks? Ducks can sleep with one eye open Ducks can turn off half of their brain while keeping the other half…
Chickens are fascinating creatures! They have complex little social lives which is part of what makes them so fun to watch, but they also have some fascinating physical characteristics too. Check out some of these interesting chicken eye facts! There are five eye colors that are commonly found in chickens: gold, red, brown, black,…
Winter is coming….every morning feels colder and colder. Almost everything in the garden has been harvested. Other than a few carrots, all that remains are the herbs. I use a lot of them fresh during the summer, but early fall is the time to harvest the leftovers to enjoy all winter long! Preserving herbs is…
The holiday season is right around the corner. I like to give a lot of homemade gifts so crafting time is kicking into high gear. Let me share with you a super easy and super inexpensive gift that everyone will love – homemade lip balm! Lip Balm makes great stocking stuffers or you can tie…
Ducks are pretty hardy birds, but Foamy Eye is a fairly common issue with ducks. Generally, if you see foaming in your duck’s eye, it is their body’s natural way of trying to clear an infection either from an injury or from a respiratory issue. Preventing Foamy Eye One of the most important things you…