Homesteading

Our first experience at raising chickens continues to go well. These ladies are about halfway to early adulthood and should be laying in a couple months.

I don't want to live on grains an greens alone. I am a omnivore unless given the opportunity to be a carnivore. But that's difficult to accommodate when prepping.

The Western U.S. is experiencing a record-setting drought. How can you survive if your water source dries up? What options are there?

After a month, the garage had started to smell, well, like chickens. Or maybe chicken poop. The time had come to move them into their permanent home.

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.

We may have small stock, but its keeping us busy! From feeding the bees to cleaning chicks with pasty butt, it's all part of a day in the life of a homseteader.

With spring giving way to summer and summer storms rolling through, we have to plan our work around the weather. There always seems to be more to be done.

Now that the beehives are set up, we need to get our fencing up before the bears sniff them out and come for a visit.

I never worked a forge or done any blacksmithing, but that's all going to change. Now I just have to decide what to make.

They say that when it rains it pours. That was the case today when all the livestock we had ordered months ago showed up on the same day.