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.…
“Gobble, gobble, gobble, proud turkeys proud turkeys. Gobble, gobble, gobble proud turkeys are we. We ruffle our feathers in all types of weather Gobble, gobble,…
I have friends who started homesteading in Arkansas back in the early 1970s. Their little girls had been raised in town up to that point,…
Amelia Stewart Knight knew the cross-country journey west would be a rough one; it was not for the weak or timid. The trip to Oregon…
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…
Trust your gut when it comes to your animals and their health. If you’ve been spending quality time with them, you’ll know when something’s wrong. …
Larry and I were married on May Day, an ancient holiday dear to me. Having everything we needed to start our life as a married…
What started as a seasonal endeavor of raising turkeys for meat, became so much more. It was a pleasure to cater to our seasonal visitors;…
There is a taboo against eating horsemeat here in North America (as well as many other places in the world). As a horse lover and…
A Portlander guy walks into a butcher shop, tells the man behind the counter he has to kill his beloved chicken, it's old and sick,…
We spend our lives trying to get back to our Earthly roots, living simpler and off the land, recycling when we can, and doing as…
My guy, Larry, wanted to make rabbit stew. After searching in our area for someone raising meat rabbits, and coming up empty, we checked out…
