Many things are used everyday on a homestead. Waterers, Feed cups, Knifes, and buckets of all sizes. An item that seldom goes a week without use is our Gorilla Cart, and here is why it is a revolutionary equipment investment on your homestead.. This is one of the most commonly used items on our homestead […]
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Utility and subcompact Tractors On our small 3 acre homestead we invested in a Kobuta BX2360 23hp tractor. The bucket on the front sees hours of moving wood chips to establish our gardens in the clay or help manage poop. When other big things need to move, I sometimes get creative. The creativity is magnified
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Getting ready to process your first animals you raised for your families consumption? Wonder if you have everything to get the processing job done in a timely fashion? Watched videos online or researched equipment which seems expensive for your 10 birds? Here are the items we have invested in that reduced our time while also
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Are you considering adding poultry to your yard or blossoming homestead? Perhaps to offset today’s wild egg prices and rising meat cost. We raise both chickens and ducks. So today’s post will discuss some pros and cons to the chickens or ducks debate! Which will be better to start with or will you be like
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One of the biggest challenges working with rabbits in cages is water. Especially if your cages are outside and you experience freezing temperatures. Or if you are away from home for a couple days and want to ensure enough water is available. Which rabbit water system do you pick? There are only so many hours
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Moving from our urban homestead to a country acreage was a dream come true. The transition from healthy soil we built over 5 years to packed clay was depressing. This post will focus on our efforts to establish a garden in a short 2 year time frame without replacing the clay with premix garden soil.
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Storage of a cow, half or even quarter can be tight! So how can you still get started with sourcing your own meat for your family with space restrictions. Maybe your restrictions is space in a town setting? We have been there and can help! Here is our journey raising meat for our family to
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Ever struggle with sticking eggs, or your fried potatoes breaking apart with the perfect crispy part stuck and burning on the bottom of the pan. One factor to help in cooking with cast iron is a good spatula. Here is what we have found as the perfect spatula for cast iron. Admittedly, it takes time and
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When I first heard about clipped wings my brain went to removing a birds wings. I almost wrote it off as a viable practice until I read about it in Storey’s guide to ducks. For further recommended reading references I am starting to write a homesteading book reference review post! Stay tuned. Turns out clipping
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If you are like me, you likely favor things made of metal over plastic. I tend to get more years out of metal products. Why talk about a winter plastic waterer then? I have owned the galvanized steel waterer in the past. We got a couple years out of them before the constant pecking deteriorated
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