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Fencing is Necessary For Livestock on a Homestead

January 7, 2012 0 Comments

Do you have livestock on your homestead?  Do you plan on getting any livestock?  The fact is, if уоu kеер animals оf аnу sort you are gоіng tо nееd adequate fencing. In mаnу states, іn fact, fencing іѕ legally required fоr аnуоnе wіth livestock оr horses – оr аnу оthеr outdoor animals.  Some people have [...] Read more
Category: Home Life, Homesteading Lifestyle, Livestock and Animals, Mini-Farms, Hobby Farms and Farmettes
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Homesteading – Keeping Poultry and Storing Produce

October 3, 2011 0 Comments

If you are homesteading, or looking to homestead, you are likely interested in living a more simple lifestyle.  Getting back to the basics of simple living requires a commitment to going green.  Homesteading offers you the ideal solution to your need for health and wellness on a budget.  You can transform the land around your [...] Read more
Category: Growing Fruits, Growing Vegetables, Homestead Gardening, Livestock and Animals, Mini-Farms, Hobby Farms and Farmettes, Organic Gardening and Growing, Small Livestock
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Homesteading Goes Solar

April 11, 2011 10 Comments

This past Saturday on Your Preparation Station Donna Miller had the honor of conducting a two hour interview with LaMar Alexander. For anyone interested in going ‘off grid’, simplifying your life and getting out of the day to day rat race of paying huge bills…this is a must-listen  interview! You can listen by going to [...] Read more
Category: Attitudes and Mind Sets, Mini-Farms, Hobby Farms and Farmettes, Stretching the Homestead Budget
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Tips to Putting up the Garden Harvest…

June 9, 2010 5 Comments

If you’re new to homesteading or even a seasoned veteran – one topic that often has many many tips to it is how to preserve your harvest once the garden starts putting out food! Below are a few options: Canning - This is one of the most widely used forms of preserving and putting up [...] Read more
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Foggy Friday on the Farm: The show must go on!

October 23, 2009 0 Comments

  It’s kind of hard for me to get out in the fog and gray weather. All I want to do is sit by the fire and snuggle a kitty! So today’s tip is – The show must go on! Herbs need re-potting for wintering indoors, animals need feeding/cleaning/tending, windows need winterizing, vents need cleaning/closing, [...] Read more
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A Honey Bees Homesteading Guide

September 14, 2009 15 Comments

For most people, modern life has evolved far from our roots in the natural and simple settings of a homestead lifestyle.   The modern life many have chosen, typically requires people to live and work in an artificial, man-made environment. Very few have the privilege of working close to the land on a regular basis and [...] Read more
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Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading: Start Now

July 28, 2009 0 Comments

Ah, the cooler breezes of the country without all of it’s concrete and noise beckon many of us now that those days seem so far removed from the hustle and bustle of ‘normal’ life. There are many people who want to someday move to the country. My tip for you is, don’t just wish and [...] Read more
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Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading: Push through & Perseverance

June 23, 2009 3 Comments

The art of perseverance is often looked at with some type of nostalgia. History tells us stories of people during times such as the founding of the country, the Great Depression, the prisoners in camps and war zones that persevered through trial with diligence, with hope in the face of despair. These are not the [...] Read more
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Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading: Sometimes ‘going with your gut’ is good.

May 5, 2009 0 Comments

This Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading is: Sometimes ‘going with your gut’ is good. What exactly does it mean to ‘go with your gut’? Well, it’s like this, the almanac has said we should have our peas in the ground weeks ago. I’ve been anguished over this date on the calendar for quite some time. My [...] Read more
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