Preface: We got our first hens last year and quickly found out that at times, the hens will peck and eat the eggs they produce…. » read more
Farm Know-How
Planting Corn 2009
When you have to plant 2 acres of corn for the creation of next winters feed for all the animals, and you have yet to aquire a tractor and the proper implements, how exactly would you do it, in the easiest possible way?
Today I faced this very issue. I had the ground all tilled and… » read more
The Dry Art of Food Storage
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
Build a nesting system with rolling egg delivery
Preface: We got our first hens last year and quickly found out that at times, the hens will peck and eat the eggs they produce. After searching for an inexpensive method of alleviating this, without cutting off their beaks, we finally devised our own system of getting the eggs out of the reach of the… » read more
