Livestock | Tips to Homesteading

Tuesday’s Tip: Don’t try to go it alone.

June 1, 2010 2 Comments

Even if you are alone on the homestead, don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Today’s tip is vital not only to the success of your homestead, but your mental health as well! It can be relatives, friends or neighbors, an occasional visitor or a planned weekly chore sharing – no matter [...] Read more

Category: Attitudes and Mind Sets

Tags: alone, garden, homestead, livestock, neighbor, skill, tips

Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading: Baby Steps are still Steps

March 9, 2010 0 Comments

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Category: Stretching the Homestead Budget

Tags: baby steps, equipment, homesteading, land, livestock, tips

More winterizing plans for the homestead

November 30, 2009 2 Comments

More tips to winterize around your homestead… Inside the home: Specific to your Furnace… Call an HVAC professional to inspect your furnace and clean ducts. Stock up on furnace filters and change them monthly. Consider switching out your thermostat for a programmable thermostat. Remove all flammable material from the area surrounding your Read more

Category: Winterizing

Tags: animals, furnace, garden, homestead, indoors, livestock, outdoors, plans, winter, winterize

Tuesday’s Tips to Homesteading: Start where you are

August 18, 2009 0 Comments

So, you dream of living in the country, living off the land, having small livestock and a serious spread of a garden. Life will be good then, and don’t we know it! For now, you’re in the suburbs though and there’s no sign of leaving any time soon. Can anything be done to start [...] Read more

Category: Urban Homesteading

Tags: city, compost, country, garden, homesteader, inner cities, livestock, suburbs, urban

Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading: Start Smaller than your Dream

March 31, 2009 0 Comments

Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading: “Start Smaller than your Dream” is by NO MEANS a damper on your vision of homesteading! If anything, it is to keep that from happening. Once you’ve gotten the homesteading ‘bug’ it is almost impossible to get rid of it. We had a short stint in Southern California suburbia that down-right [...] Read more

Category: Urban Homesteading

Tags: acreage, acres, bunny, chickens, crops, dirt, fruit trees, garden, gardening, goats, grapevines, harvest, homestead, homestead garden, hunter, land, livestock, nut trees, rabbit, sheep, skills, woods

Winter Homestead ‘To Do’ ideas

January 5, 2009 10 Comments

Winter can seem like ‘down time’ on the homestead, but it certainly is not true in all homesteads. If you have livestock of any form, you know they need just as much care, if not more, in the winter. If you have wood heat, well then you are hauling and chopping and cleaning ashes. But [...] Read more

Category: Winterizing

Tags: canning, garden, homestead, livestock, projects, winter