Did you know there is an easy trick you can use to tell if your cow is getting enough to…
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How to Rock at Raising Chickens (Why You Aren’t as Good as You Think)
You know, we’ve got this raising chickens business down pat. I mean we’ve been doing it for what? Eight years?…
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2015 Homestead Yields & Cost Analysis
While I find it incredibly beneficial to keep homestead notes and maintain a homestead management binder, my favorite part of…
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Your Questions: Wearing Skirts on the Homestead
“In the last few years I feel like God has been urging me towards a more modest feminine dress but…
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My Hero
This week I found a whole new respect for our dogs when we had our first official trespasser on the property. I…
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How to Dry Up Your Family Cow
“How to Dry up You Family Cow.” Otherwise known as “The Annual 60 Day Raw Milk Fast.” It is a…
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Milk and Honey Cupcakes
The calving season officially ended a couple weeks ago after a long and protracted month of analyzing every indication of…
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The Perfect Family Cow? Pros & Cons of Dexter Cattle
Who has been with me long enough that they remember Maybelle? We cut our cow raising teeth on Maybelle. She…
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Day in the Life of a Homestead
Don’t you just love a good farm upur? Honestly, if I’ve got to leave ours, I hope that’s where I’m…
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The Best Homemade Fly Spray
I hate seeing my poor cows inside a cloud of swirling flies during the hot summer months. I can only…
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Change of Plans
{Farm Scenes #22} It’s time to face that no matter how much I can *hope* that life is going to…
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In The Box
{Farm Scene #17} Today we drove to our nearest hatchery and picked up this year’s order of laying chicks. (The…
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