The Milk Barn Gets a Facelift
The Milk barn got a face-lift this past weekend. If you have livestock coming into and out of a building or barn …
Month: October 2014
Caring for Baby Chicks
Caring for Baby Chicks Baby chicks are usually sent home in a small box. Our local farm supply stores have a minimum …
Build Your Own Chicken Coop
Build Your Own Chicken Coop We have 3 chicken coops. None of them were originally constructed to be chicken coops. You can …
Keeping Chickens The Redneck Way – Pros & Cons
Keeping Chickens the Redneck Way – Pros & Cons For an Introduction to Keeping Chickens the Red Neck Way go Here. There …
Keeping Chickens – The Redneck Way
How to Keep Chickens The Redneck Way. We aren’t chicken experts. Our chickens are some free-rangin’, bug-eatin’, egg layin’ ladies and lads …
Cows & Cow Bells
Cows & Cow Bells I have 4 children. I love that they spend their afternoons playing outdoors and enjoying the country. There …
Incubating Eggs
It was springtime. We were incubating eggs. 10 days into the incubation process we usually “candle” our eggs to see which eggs …
Why You Should Think Twice Before You Mulch With Hay
It’s fall and we have been on a search for awesome pumpkins. I grow pumpkins, but sometimes it’s fun to go to …
How To Make Bread with Fresh Flour
How to Make Bread with Fresh Flour I make bread. It would be much easier to just buy bread at the store. …
Chicken in the Flowers Part #2
This is not the first post about problems with my flowers. I love my flowers. If you would like to read more …
Surprising Benefits of Raising Our Own Food
Benefits of Raising Our Own Food I thought food came from the grocery store. I thought if it was on the shelf, …
How to Freeze Onions
Freezing onions. After harvesting onions out of the garden there are 4 options: Eat them Can them (think salsa, chutney, or with …
Pig Slaughter
Pig Slaughter We don’t process our own pigs. We do our own chickens and our deer. Not Pigs. We like bacon and …
The Youngest
My youngest child asked if he could borrow my camera. I said yes. I saw him on the back porch taking pictures …
Fresh Salsa – How to Make & Can
Fresh Salsa – How to Make & Can Today I am going to make salsa. I always wait until the very end …