You have your land, beautiful grass growing, and even some fencing up, and now you find yourself asking the question all new homesteaders ask – What livestock should I raise? If you want to be as self sufficient as possible, producing your own families food with as few outside inputs as possible we are going […]
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How Much Would It Cost To Turn a Pole Barn Into a House?
How much would it cost to turn a pole barn into a house? This was what we were wondering when we found ourselves moving to PA MUCH SOONER than we expected or were ready for! We were moving to PA to take over the family farm. We listed our home in CT, expecting it to […]
SIMPLE WAY To SAVE MONEY On Chicken FEED, Pig, Cow or Any Other Feed This Year
One of the biggest expenses on a homestead is the feed bill. Every animal on the homestead needs some sort of feed supplement (maybe with the exception of sheep) and most of the animals will get the bulk of their food from purchased feed. Any way you can save money on your chicken feed bill […]
How Can You Tell if a Goat is Pregnant… THE BEST WAY
How can you tell if a goat is pregnant? It is actually much harder that it seems. A few years ago we had a lamancha doe bred (or so we thought…). A few months went by, and as we got closer and closer to the due date we started observing signs of the birth approaching. […]
WHY WE KILLED OUR YURT DREAM. WHY?
We have wanted to live in a Yurt for almost as long as we have been married. When we finally had the chance to pull the trigger and live in a Yurt… We said NO! Why did we kill our Yurt Dream? When we were first starting to think about homesteading, we didn’t have much […]
How To Build a Goat Milking Stand – Easy DIY
Learn how to build a goat milking stand or stanchion in today’s video! We had just purchased our first dairy goat. K wanted to milk goats, and I wanted to drink goats milk. In just a few weeks our doe would Kid. K would spend each morning peacefully milking her new doe, and I would […]
