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Homesteading, simple living, back to the land movement, whatever you want to call it. When I start homesteading in a few years (after I’m done with school) which animal would you recommend getting first? The first year, I just want to have a garden. Then each year, I want to get a different type of animal. I would do everything all at once, but I’m going to run a boarding kennel .....Read More

Homesteading, simple living, back to the land movement, whatever you want to call it. When I start homesteading in a few years (after I’m done with school) which animal would you recommend getting first? The first year, I just want to have a garden. Then each year, I want to get a different type of animal. I would do everything all at once, but I’m going to run a boarding .....Read More

Homesteading, simple living, back to the land movement, whatever you want to call it. When I start homesteading in a few years (after I’m done with school) which animal would you recommend getting first? The first year, I just want to have a garden. Then each year, I want to get a different type of animal. I would do everything all at once, but I’m going to run a boarding kennel .....Read More

I’ve had my 4 chickens over a month and they were at point of lay when I got them from a local farm.They are now 22 weeks and still no eggs. They are fed laying pellets, corn and mixed greens, I let them out at 6am and house them at 8pm plus they are free to walk around the garden for most of the day so they eat worms and bugs, so they have plenty of room to exercise. They all seem to .....Read More

I have a worm farm, currently using two trays. I opened it today to feed the worms and several large black flies flew out of it. The fluid that flows from the tap is almost black with tiny white floating things (possibly eggs/larvae or insects. The fluid also smells like sewerage but the contents of the trays do not smell. This doesn’t sound right or is it? .....Read More

They didn’t get to ‘run to town’ and buy stuff. They had to provide for their LARGE families the entire year without a Kroger or a Walmart. And NO electricity or running water! Can you describe these farms, if you remember seeing one? My grandparents had everything covered, milk, tobacco, fruit, vegetables, game meat, lumber, firewood, eggs, beef, pork, chicken, cold water .....Read More

Just wondering. If you don’t know what a homesteader is, it’s basically living as self-sufficient as possible. For example: Grow/Raise your own food like veggies and meat (or if you’re a vegetarian just veggies) enough for the whole year make your own butter / milk / collect eggs Run your own business from home homeschool your kids don’t have many modern things like .....Read More

Does anyone know where to find good chicken coop instructions? I am wanting to get a few chickens to save on eggs, and since I love eggs I thought I might try and build my own chicken coop. Anyone? .....Read More