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You have probably noticed that Joe and I tend to write about different topics.  What interests me the most, I absorb more quickly, have a greater depth of knowledge, and am more passionate to share with others.  The same is true for Joe.  Our complementary hobbies have given us the opportunities to focus on different […]

Recently, we had an anniversary that no one wants to remember.  Six years ago, I delivered a stillborn baby.  He was our second son and we grieved as all parents would. There was nothing evidently wrong with our dear child and the doctors had no explanation for his death.  This side of heaven, we will […]

As preppers, we often focus the vast majority of our attention on the big things- the so-called “bullets, beans, and band-aids.”  I want to give a little thought and mention to the more minor things that make daily life easier, but may slip off your mental radar. To come up with this list, I went […]

With a little bit of rabbit-raising experience under our belts now, I thought I’d share what we have learned so far. Choose breeding stock with your goals in mind It seems there are nearly as many kinds of rabbits as there are cats.  Minis, giants, solids, spotted, floppy ears, special fur, even wool! Rabbit breeders […]

Electric clothes dryers are wonderful things.  As a “mom of many,” I assure you that I am grateful not to have to hand-wash and hang-dry all of our clothes all the time right now.  I do at least 3 loads of laundry most days (not Sundays) and I can only imagine how much more time […]

Raising rabbits for meat is just about a forgotten hobby these days. Fifty years ago, they were a pretty common part of the food chain and lots of youngsters had a hutch out back.  Until a few years ago, a Boy Scout could earn a merit badge for rabbit-raising.  Even 4-H has relegated rabbits to […]

So, you’ve got a nice flock of chickens on your homestead, but a couple of problems have cropped up.  What do you do now?  In the next few installments, I’ll try to address some of them and share what we’ve learned and tried. The Chickens Don’t Lay Where I Want Them To. Sometimes I Can’t […]

When we first planned our move to our farm, I started reading everything I could get my hands on about farming, animals, raising food, building fences and coops, and on and on.  One of my all-time favorites is a book my sister-in-law first told me about – The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery. Throughout […]

Your chicks have finally come of age and the “henfruit” starts to show up.  Now, where do you put it? We are all familiar with the refrigerated case at our local grocery stores.  In it, we find the meat, milk, OJ, and eggs (and mingled in there are those whump-out-of-a-can-biscuits and EZ Cheez, but let’s […]

Should I get a rooster? The icon of the rooster atop a fencepost crowing for all he’s worth is part of that “farmy” image a lot of us have in our minds.  Don’t all “farmers” have roosters to tell them when to get up? It turns out that a lot of those ideas are folklore rather […]