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Aquaponics: Why It’s the Best Gardening Method for Homesteading
Even if you don’t have a large amount of land available, you…
Raising Dairy Beef: Little Calves, Big Profits
Dairy animals have a salable by-product: offspring. If you have dairy goats,…
Don’t Get Snookered: The Beginner’s Guide to Buying Cattle
One goal of the homesteading lifestyle is to live as independently as…
Thwarting the Fox: Protecting Your Chicken Flock
It’s late March, and a red fox has been hanging around for…
A Farm-hand’s Life: Shearing Sheep
When the scraper first hits, the compacted, manure-laden hay feels like concrete. …
Ruminations on Ruminants: a Goatherd’s Diary on Kidding
It's midnight in the goat shed. The winter sky is black and…
Nuisance Wildlife Encounters On the Rise
Encounters with "nuisance wildlife" have been on the upswing in recent years.…
5 Things We’ve Learned Owning an Intact Buck
Our first couple of years owning Nigerian Dwarf goats, we didn’t have…
Coop Considerations: Quick-Start Guide to Building a Chicken Coop
Building a chicken coop, especially from scratch, can be exhilarating and exhausting,…
