It may take a little extra time and effort to track and record what your homestead is producing, but at the end of the year, it is well worth the work when you see just exactly how much food you could grow on your land. I always have found it to be very rewarding in…
Get your ducks in a row! Create your own yearly homestead schedule with an Annual Homestead Calendar to get your farm organized in the new year!
How much does it cost to raise broiler meat chickens? I’m opening up the ledger and giving you the breakdown and analysis of what it cost for us to raise Ranger broiler meat chickens on our homestead so you can prepare and budget to raise your own.
One of the challenges of running a modern homestead is getting it all done. Here are a few tricks to help keep things running more smoothly.
I’ve been picking my way through The Excellent Woman by Anne Pratt. A chapter here. A chapter there as time allows. It really is an wonderful little 19th century expositional encouragement for women. I highly recommend it. The most recent reading left me feeling convicted about a lazy habit that has been slowly creeping into…
With butchering and processing of the hogs behind us, I was eager to see how things stood from a financial perspective. There were several different factors that were changed in the way we raised these pigs this year. A few were intended to reduce the costs of raising our own meat even further. A few…