Homesteading

The leaves are gone, and temperatures in the 20s are expected. Looks like the last of the warm weather is behind us.

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.

Whether you prep slowly, a little at a time, or in big batches doesn't matter as much as being prepared when the SHTF. Here's what I did this week.

More sunny weather allowed us to make substantial progress on our chicken coop yesterday. We expect to pick up with roofing late next week.

Warm, dry weather means its time to work outdoors, so we recently picked up where we had left off with the garden fencing project.

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Fixing my electric fence meant tearing it down, installing larger insulators, and almost starting from scratch. But it was a learning experience.

Back to the grind stone--or should I say nail gun? Warm, dry weather allowed me to get back into the field and work on framing the chicken coop.

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.

After more than two years, our chickens were laying less and less, eggs so we decided it was time to start over with new hens.