This winter when Bill came home from the third class of the Homestead Hog Butchering workshop where he was learning the…
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7 Reasons to Butcher Your Own Meat (+Butchering Workshop)
Years ago we made a plan for meat. Like many homesteader’s, we desired to get to the place where we…
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How Much Does It Cost To Raise Chickens For Meat?
We’ve been raising meat chickens for several years now. Every year we learn something new and seem to generally be…
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~Homemade Smoked Kielbasa~
Since we began butchering our own pork, we’ve had to experiment with recipes, trying different things for meats like bacon,…
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~How to Prepare Casings for Sausage Making~
I’d like to share with you my video tutorial of how to clean hog intestines for use as casings in…
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~2014 Hog Butchering & Stats (Round One)~
{Breaking Down into Primals} {Sausage Making Crew} {Snacking on Stale Bread} {The Butchering Frame… and kitty finished up snacking} {Before}…
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~How to Estimate the Weight of a Live Hog~
Did you know that it’s possible to estimate how much your pig weighs simply by using a tape measure (or…
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~December on the Homestead~
•December in our home begins with a celebration. A celebration of the gift of this precious little girl, our second…
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~Peeling Chicken Feet~
There’s nothing like raising your own meat to make you really appreciate the value of the creatures’ life, not to…
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~2013 Meat Chicken Cost Analysis~
Let’s talk chicken. Because we butchered ours last weekend and I have an irritating little habit of sharing with you…
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~Making Beef on the Homestead: Part One~
This weekend we slaughtered, skinned, and eviscerated our first steer. He was a 2 1/2 year old Irish Dexter and…
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~Random Glimpses {Eleven}~
One Year Ago: ~The 105th Psalm~ Dark weather means photography slows down some. So will these posts then. Hence the…
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