I love spring. I love planning for spring. It brings plans and potential for new things to the homestead. It brings new life, new dreams, and a chance to improve from last year. Ducks are definitely on my list this spring. Don’t get me wrong, I love my chickens but ducks. Seriously, who can resist…
10 Brilliant Tips for Keeping Chickens Cool this Summer
In the sweltering summer heat it can be hard to figure out how to cool yourself off, let alone your chickens. However, with these great tips for keeping your chickens cool this summer, you’ll have a happy, productive, and cooled flock in no time. I don’t know how it happened, but we went straight from having…
Should You Wash Farm Fresh Eggs?
Chickens, I don’t know what it is about these little dinosaurs in the yard that makes homesteaders hearts sing, but they’re pretty awesome, aren’t they? There’s something to be said about the satisfaction of being able to go straight out into your yard to gather your breakfast. And chickens are pretty easy to care for,…
20 Tips to Buy the Perfect Homesteading Land
We are in the process of looking for land to buy for our homestead and the results that pull up can be overwhelming. What do you need to look for when buying land to homestead? There are properties all over the place available, some inexpensive, some… not so much. And while I do recommend finding…
How to Care for Baby Chicks
Nothing, I mean nothing, is more adorable than the cute fluff balls we call baby chicks. They’re just cute, fuzzy, irresistible little critters. It certainly helps that they grow up into beautiful chickens that keep you in fresh breakfast. I have wanted chickens for well over three loooong years. We weren’t allowed to have them where we…
