A Breakdown of our First Purchase of Beekeeping Equipment and How Much It Cost.
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The Cost of: Owning Alpacas
An analysis of the cost of owning a herd of alpacas- including shelter, care, and more!
Growing Rhubarb
A general guide about rhubarb and how we grow it on our homestead.
Growing Garlic – Take 2
Our second attempt at growing garlic on our homestead.
The Cost of Raising Pigs for Meat
A cost analysis of raising your own pork for personal consumption.
Protecting your Chickens from Heat Stress
I’m an extremely inactive member of a lot of homesteading related forums & social media groups. I lurk, some might say, rarely posting anything more then comments offering bits of my limited wisdoms. One thing I see people posting a lot of is heat related ills and woes. Especially this last summer with record breaking…
Raising Meat Chickens- Lessons Learned
We are less then 24 hours away from sending our first batch of birds to the butcher and I’ve had some time to reflect. This was our first year raising our own meat- we tend to never do anything halfheartedly so we started out big by raising 120+ meat Cornish Rock Crosses and 4 pigs….
How We Are Raising Our Meat Chickens- After the Brooder and into the Tractor
A few blogs ago, I published one about how we were starting our meat chickens off on the right foot. Now I am here to tell you how they will spend weeks 3 thru culling in Mid August. We built ourselves some chicken tractors -we used rough cedar boards (yes I know CEDAR IS BAD…
Raising Pigs for Meat
This last winter, I published a blog about why we had decided to raise our own pigs for meat this summer – Well I am proud to say, we are! Early May, we brought home 4 Tamworth piglets- a heritage breed from the UK known for its long, lean body, red hair and hardiness. And…
The Alpacas have been SHEARED
A big Thanks to the crew of Mariacher Shearing Service- they got to our place in the middle of no where, set up their stations, had our herd taken care of and were back on the road to the next job in less then 2 and a half hours. It was a whirlwind, an education…
