The dream of coming back to basics, down to our roots, and achieving self-sufficiency is a worthy one. You put…
Day to day on our homestead my husband and I have the pleasure of coexisting with heritage turkeys, heirloom chickens,…
The trouble with keeping cows (aside from the regular, mischievous behavior of Bos taurus such as crashing through fences, or…
Almost everything you read about sheep leads you to believe that they are very easy animals to deal with. Popular…
One goal of the homesteading lifestyle is to live as independently as possible, providing for oneself and one’s family. Owning…
Milk prices have certainly gotten higher in the last few years, high enough that many of us small farmers are…
Preparing the Homestead for Winter, Part One: The Buildings Preparing the Homestead for Winter, Part Two: The Machinery There’s a…
At the young and impressionable age of twenty, I read the book Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer from cover…