As winter ends and spring approaches, there’s excitement for gardening. Early planning includes ordering seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds and organizing supplies. By using a binder for seed packets and utilizing a greenhouse, they efficiently manage their garden. The joy of planting brings hope, making winter more bearable.
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We have been raising our own meat birds for years. It was a natural progression from raising laying hens. We raise cornish crosses and raise about 25-50 birds a year. We also butcher our own birds. This allows us to to see these birds go from chick to table. When the recent pandemic started we didn’t look for toilet paper
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http://www.youtube.com/watch Just a quick reminder that winter is around the corner click the link above to see how to build a Holzhaufen
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Free time affects everyone differently. Some binge watch, some cook, some hike or fish, but here, we build. It seems like every time we catch up, we find a new project to keep us busy and improve the function of the homestead. Because of the current shutdown, we have found ourselves with additional time to devote to the homestead. In
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This is Marge our newest fixture on the homestead. She is one special pig and life here wouldn’t be the same without her. Marge has changed the way we homestead forever, but that was not the plan when we picked her and her brother and sister up from a local farmer. For the last several years we have raised
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two branches homestead 