Snow, ice, sleet, and wind. Darkness at 4 p.m., rock-hard ground, frozen water-troughs, frostbitten ears on calves, milk frozen in buckets, salt feeders buried under…
Whether you want eggs, meat, or your own petting zoo, there’s a bird that will fill the bill. There is plenty of poultry to pick…
No matter if you are producing eggs, honey, milk, or meat, a well-considered animal-husbandry program is essential to the financial success of any homestead operation.…
One in nine people faces food insecurity in America (2018, USDA Household Food Security report ). I’m sure a lot of Homestead.org readers are baffled…
The popularity of keeping and raising chickens for eggs has undergone a dramatic resurgence since the turn of the twenty-first century. Laying hens are making…
Tammy Curry greeted me with fresh homemade bread, slathered with butter, and a glass of cool sweet tea. It was in the high nineties outside…
If you raised your kids in the country would you eat more cupcakes and fewer rice cakes? Would you dust less and listen more? Worry…
Our poultry tractors used to sit dormant in between bird batches, now they are used year round, in a variety of ways. Our multi-purpose chicken…
It’s finally happened: you’re moving toward living your homesteading dream. You figured out your property and set aside a spot for your garden. Now it’s…
What do I mean by, “hens are birds, too”? For starters, hens are fussy about their nests, just like any other bird. Although there are…
Anyone who claims to succeed without some measure of homesteading failure first is either not trying very hard, or lying about it. Farming, gardening, homesteading,…
My three boys and I are all settled in now, trying out the homesteading lifestyle in this house in the mountains in the northern region…