I grew up on the Eastern Shore of Virginia (the ESVA or the Shore to us natives), a rural area. I always said things like “I can’t wait to get away from here”, “Gosh this has to be the most boring place on Earth” growing up. I mean, you had to drive to another state… » read more

Welp, sure enough, after I finished parts 1 & 2 of the fencing articles, and moved the goats to the new pasture, I found more work needing done fast.
When we ran the fences, we used woven wire all around Jaimes garden, and 4 strands of barb wire for the rest. That looked good and solid… » read more

While looking thru the Homesteader Life blog, I came across a post from 2005 dealing with homemade food dehydrators (post link). That article, while very basic, pointed me to a backwoods magazine article titled Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator by Charles Sanders. Looking over his design, it was not hard to see that this… » read more

We left off the last fencing post after setting all of our main posts, brace posts, horizontals, and tying them all tight with twitch wire, then setting all of the t-posts in between. The last 3 days have been a learning experience stringing 4 strands of barb wire, 5 in the very back along the… » read more

When I first told my Mom that I was moving to Kentucky to live on a farm, she thought I was crazy. After we had lived here for 2 months, we started adding animals. We started off small, a dog & some cats. She still said I was crazy. My Mom liked to start off… » read more