In this video, Mike demonstrates one of the ways of recharging the battery bank. In this case he is using solar panels. If you haven’t seen part 1 and part 2 of this series, check it out! This transcript is paraphrased and shortened for brevity. Buy the battery bank here! The Prepared Homestead: one of […]
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Off Grid Resilience part 2
In this video we highlight some of the capabilities that the battery bank brings to the family, specifically, how to use the battery bank in conjunction with generators. If you missed part 1, watch it here. This transcript is shortened and paraphrased for brevity: The Prepared Homestead: let’s talk about integrating generators with the battery […]
Off Grid Resilience part 1
A battery bank is a great back up for when the power goes out The Prepared Homestead has partnered with Mike Leister with Tactical Woodgas in bringing this force multiplier to you. In this video we go over some of the basics of the battery bank. The transcript is shortened and paraphrased. The Prepared […]
Poultry and Rabbit Processing!
Do you want to get those birds processed before Labor Day weekend? We have a few processing dates coming up. If you need service, we can help! We will be processing: on Friday, September 2nd and Saturday, September 3rd. Butchering/Processing We conduct small animal processing for customers, this includes ducks, chickens, turkeys, rabbits and even […]
Locavores and Preparedness
The locavore movement is pretty popular and generally boils down to eating food that is produced within 100 miles from where one lives. That’s great! There are many benefits to eating locally: the food is almost assuredly to be more nutritionally dense, contain less preservatives and will certainly be fresher. All wonderful reasons to become […]
Poultry & Rabbit Processing Coming up!
Do you want to get those birds processed before Labor Day weekend? We have a few processing dates coming up. If you need service, we can help! We will be processing: on Friday, September 2nd and Saturday, September 3rd. Butchering/Processing We conduct small animal processing for customers, this includes ducks, chickens, turkeys, rabbits and even […]
Surprise Chickens Part 2
To read part 1 go here: Surprise Chickens 1. I wanted to write a quick update on our mother hen and her chicks. She brooded without any assistance. No heat lamps, water, shelter or food nearby. She came out of the woods with 11 chicks. She’s a scrapper and a fierce mama even though she’s a […]
Surprise Chickens
Really cool surprise today. Our production breed layer hatched out 11 chicks which was a total surprise! We didn’t even know it. To be honest we haven’t been doing head counts because we have a lot of birds and we don’t lock up our coop at night. At least for now our predator problem has […]
Bringing in the Harvest
The hoop house is producing like crazy except for the long keepers and Italian paste. Those two tomatoes aren’t ripe yet but they should have no problem doing so over the next month. We definitely have a lot of food preservation in our future. We expect to get 100s of pounds of tomatoes and peppers […]
Podcast Episode 111 – Permaculture Herbs and Guilds
In today’s podcast Monica and I discuss our Medicinal Guild Project as well as our thoughts on Permaculture and the Modern Medical Industry. We encourage everyone to join our TPH community membership for valuable and exclusive content that includes a regular VLOG, courses, PDF downloads, member forum and more. Join Here. Permaculture is a methodology […]
