If homestead life has you feeling harried, hurried, and stressed on a daily basis, barely feeling like you’ve got enough time to get anything done,…
Is any homestead complete without ducks? I don’t believe so; we’ve been raising six ducks since this spring and we sure enjoy them! I must…
Fermentation is enjoying somewhat of a celebrity status these days. In 2010, a story in The New Yorker about fermenting guru, Sandor Katz, revealed what…
Encounters with “nuisance wildlife” have been on the upswing in recent years. Complaints from homeowners run the gamut: trampled gardens, ransacked trash, chewed electric wires,…
As some of you may know from reading my Missouri Journal, I have been building a house on my 12-acre Ozark paradise for a number…
A garden offers some truly great benefits to those who undertake the task. It is a way to exercise greater control over the food in your…
“Wait. You forgot to draw in the HVAC closet”, said the young man with the product in his hair, perusing my pencil-on-graph-paper rendition of the…
If you are searching for a way to dramatically increase your harvest yields while decreasing the amount of water you use in your garden, French…
Starting a forest garden on your homestead is one of the best things you can do—for your own needs and those of your family, your…
Our first couple of years owning Nigerian Dwarf goats, we didn’t have an intact buck on the farm, just a few females and a wether…
Milk prices have certainly gotten higher in the last few years, high enough that many of us small farmers are seriously considering a dairy animal. …
In the book On Life as a Pioneer Woman, Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote, “What becomes of the time we saved?” Although this question was posed…