Homesteading

Before you live your dream and invest in a homestead you should make sure you can handle one of the least popular chores.

Our refrigerator died during the hottest week of the year. and took more than a week to repair. Here's how we handled it.

Our garden is producing well, maybe even over-producing. Anyone have a good recipe that uses green beans and zucchini?

This is the peak of production on the homestead. In a survival situation, this is when we would be packing on pounds to get us through the winter.

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.

More than half of our young Black Star chickens escaped over night, and we don't know why or if they will do it again.

Despite rain and sudden cold snaps, May weather is some of the best we will see on the homestead for working outside.

Our chicks are devouring their food, gulping their water, and doubling in size after the first week. In another 19 weeks, they'll be laying eggs.

The bees are keeping my buzzing as I real with queenless hives, new splits, a lack of nectar and strange weather patterns.

Spring is usually a time of rebirth and young animals, but winter wasn't done with us. The recent cold snap caused death and destruction.