Now that the Christmas season is over and the shortest days of the year are behind us, we always find ourselves thinking of spring. We really enjoy winter sports like ice fishing. Catching up on inside projects is always rewarding, but our brains can’t stop thinking of getting our hands in the dirt. In reality, we are not far away
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Believe it or not, I wasn’t born into deer hunting. My family didn’t hunt at all. When I was a small child we used to spend summers in the country with my grandmother. It was there that I discovered my love of the outdoors. We would fish and camp, but we never hunted. The local boys would always talk about
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Originally posted on two branches homestead:
? 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…
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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