Choosing Rootstock When choosing rootstock I recommend looking beyond the trees’ use as a rootstock and looking at the usefulness of the tree as a whole. When I choose rootstock I like to select ones with multiple uses, Wild Plum and Antonovka Apple are clear winners in my book. Not only do they make great […]
Animal Processing
Start Your Own Poultry Processing Business Workshop
Who is this workshop for? Those interested in learning how to humanely, cleanly and efficiently process poultry. And those who are looking for a small business opportunity. We started out processing our own poultry and in an effort to help us pay for the equipment we started taking on a few other people’s birds. In […]
Podcast Episode 117 – 5 Ways to Make Money on the Homestead
Today’s podcast covers the important subject of creating multiple streams of income. We are not focusing on making these things your primary or only source of income, rather we are trying to get you thinking about ways you can add an income to an activity you already do on your homestead/farm to diversify your income […]
Top 3 Starter Homestead Animals – Podcast 114
Download Podcast Here On today’s podcast mon and I talk about the three best animals to start homesteading with. It doesn’t matter if you are on acreage, in suburbia on a decent sized lot or you have a postage stamp for yard you can raise one or allo f these animals. 1. Chickens – the […]
Harvesting Animals Humanely
Harvesting animals is not our favorite part of homesteading but it is a necessary part, and we think the aspect of harvesting, processing, slaughtering or butchering — whatever you want to call it — provides the deepest connection with the land. It is the thing that makes homesteading the most real. Reasons for Processing Animals […]
