Live Your Homestead Dream Today
So you’ve been dreaming of a family milk cow. Raw milk. Cream. Butter. Cheese. Clanging milk pails. Cool morning sunrises. The sweet smell of hay. The works. So you bought a piece of land. And it’s big enough to finally bring your gal home and start living the dream. Congratulations! But what if your small pasture is lousy? They use to…
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Want to know how much does your pig weigh? It’s possible to estimate how much your pig weighs simply by using a tape measure (or string, piece of baling twine, etc…) and a calculator! By taking 2 simple measurements and applying them to a formula, you can get a general idea of the live weight of your hog. We’ve been…
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There are two crops I absolutely despise growing… I take that back, three. There are three crops that I hate growing. Summer squash, cucumbers, and broccoli. The first two I value enough to keep growing anyway, and the third, the one I almost forgot, I give a half-hearted attempt every year and then find I don’t care when it doesn’t…
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No homemade medicine cabinet would be complete without echinacea tincture. It’s easy to learn how to make echinacea tincture. It’s simple to prepare, abundantly available, and one of the most reputable herbal remedies. I’m sharing the echinacea tincture recipe I make using the whole plant. The benefits of echinacea purpurea tincture are primarily anecdotal and historical as science is giving…
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Last spring I bought seed potatoes with one goal in mind: Grow enough to feed my family for a year. Lofty, I know, but I had done the math, overbought on seed just to be sure, and planted in perfect weather (it was a warm, dry spring last year as opposed to the cold wet one the year prior where…
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Did you know there is an easy trick you can use to know when your family cow is getting enough to eat? When I first became a cow owner, I agonized over whether Maybelle was happy, healthy, and getting enough to eat. After constantly wondering, “Is my cow too skinny?” I was thrilled when we moved to our new homestead. It…
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