The Pickled Prepper
Homestead Image by Donna Kirby from Pixabay

How to Avoid Losing Your Authentic Self and Getting Carried Away

Did you leave the rat race only to find you moved it to your backyard? I see this in YouTube creators who drift away from their authentic selves in pursuit of subscribers and the all mighty dollar. Avoid this trap and get back to your roots.
green beans on the vine

We’ve got Beans Coming out of our Ears

Our garden is producing well, maybe even over-producing. Anyone have a good recipe that uses green beans and zucchini?
If you look at the back of the rooster's comb, you can see the black section we think is the result of frostbite. It doesn't seemed to have slowed him down.

A Good Week for the Chickens, but not the Bees

Egg production has risen with the temperatures, but the flock is not entirely unscathed. The bitter cold we experienced also hurt the bees.
Brown eggs

11 Hens A-Laying

We have gone from harvesting 12 or 13 eggs per day in the Spring of 2022 to 7 in the summer of 2023, but that's an improvement over last month.
An Anatolian Shepherd, also known as a Kangal Dog.

We are Adding a New Member to our Homestead

After looking at Rottweilers and investigating a few other breeds, we have selected a large livestock guardian dog for our homestead companion.
Pumping oxalic acid into a beehive to kill varroa mites.

Prepper Lessons, Cold Weather, and a Possible Blizzard

We are preparing for winter, the possibility of sub-zero temperatures, and a Christmas Blizzard. Are you prepper for that?
An empty soup shelf from May 2020

The Dangers of Running out of Stuff

Will the world as we know it come crashing down because of supply chain shortages? It's certainly possible as shortages may persist for years.
A stack of firewood in the snow.

Bad Weather and Good Work

Bad weather limited what we can do outside and resulted in yet another power outage, but it was just as well. We needed the rest.
Chicks that are 18 days old

The Chicken Coop is Complete, but the Chicks aren’t Quite Ready...

We got off to a slow start back in mid-March and the weather wasn't the most cooperative, but we've finally finished building the chicken coop.
This is a cluster of three intertwined fallen trees that were knocked down by Hurricane Helene

Eight Down, a Few Hundred to Go

Hundreds of fallen trees litter our land, making parts of the mountain impassible. We got some help removing some of the trees that blocked our access road.
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