Peeping Eggs

Peeping Eggs

Jan 30, 2016 | Homesteading

Dear Neighbor, I wanted to follow up on my last letter I wrote to you. If you missed it, please read so you know why this is exciting, but we have peeping eggs and 5 days early! After weeks of tending the eggs we did find two were rotten. I tossed the first one into...
This Little Piggy

This Little Piggy

Sep 26, 2010 | Homesteading

I probably should not have gotten out of bed that morning. Somehow, I am not sure if it would have mattered. Life on the homestead would have swirled around me, regardless if I was upright or laying down. It was the laying down that was the problem. Well, the pig’s that is.

Using Recycled Chest Freezers For The Homestead

Using Recycled Chest Freezers For The Homestead

Jul 25, 2010 | Homesteading

Sick of squirrels chewing through your feed buckets? Tired of fighting off raccoons and their clever little hands opening your storage containers? Or have you given up and allowed the mice to eat their portion? I have a solution we have used for years…

Food, Inc.- A Horror Story

Food, Inc.- A Horror Story

Apr 30, 2010 | Homesteading

Dear Neighbor, I must say that Food Inc. is one of the most moving documentaries I have seen. What I learned still haunts me on a daily basis. The politics of food was pretty shocking. This issue alone is so gripping, at times I thought I would cry! The only voice of...