Category: Life in Farming
Learning to homestead with a small property
20 years of researching has led me to the conclusion that you can homestead on truly any size property. You just have to have GREAT organizational skills on smaller properties to streamline what you want to accomplish. Here is a link to homesteading.com and 15 homesteading ideas for your property….
Meet me on the homestead – Kunekune pigs
Our baby “War Pigs” have grown up and that includes Haka, the littlest runt from the litter of December 2017. If you were at the Heights Church for the Christmas Eve services in 2017, you were able to see a litter of 3 day old baby kunekunes. (I added a…
Days 2 and 3 – Reestablishing Fodder
By day 3, you should have 2 trays with sprouting seeds and another soaking. Little roots are starting to sprout out of the seeds and a network of roots will begin to grow and intertwine together over the next few days. This morning we put out tray #3 with seeds. We…
Revisiting – Raising your own meat, Oathkeepers
[download id=”5070″] I love that my children can stand up in front of a group and share everything that has to with their homestead animals and the meat that comes along with it. Shelby and Elwyn had a GREAT presentation for the Oathkeepers. (August 2017) by Shelby Fullmer – August…
Revisit – Oathkeepers – How to use medicinal herbs
[download id=”5031″] http://www.yourbodycanheal.com/medicinal-herbs.html How to Use Medicinal Herbs So you’ve decided you want to incorporate herbal remedies into your health regimen. Congratulations! You’re embarking on a journey that will help your body heal itself from the inside out in a way that is much more natural, safe and gentle than conventional medicine….
Preparedness class at Oathkeepers
I was honored to be able to talk at the Chino Valley Oathkeeper’s Preparedness class this weekend! THANK YOU FOR INVITING ME!!! Click the button below to download the PDF of the handout of the class. [sdm_download id=”4316″ fancy=”0″ new_window=”1″] We talked about getting your garden up and going. Yep,…
Welcome to 2016!
Welcome to 2016! And Happy 12th day of Christmas!! This year on our homestead, we are working really hard to get self sustaining and be able to offer more animals, produce and eggs to our friends. It has been a great year! We have pressed the “easy” button and made…
Chicks for sale (plus waiting list for other animals)
We are hatching little chicks left and right today! I love that sound our of my incubator!!! PEEP!! PEEP!!PEEEEPPP! We have chicks and quail hatching year round on our homestead. Ameraucanas and Ameraucana mixes hatching this week. Quail are due this weekend. We have ducks and geese due at the…
Progress on our homestead, February 2015
We have been blessed with beautiful weather this February. It is not always the case and the rest of the country seems to be hit HARD with cold weather and snow. We are taking full advantage of this warmer weather. We have been working on a “plethora” of projects as supplies arrive….
