How To Deal With Tornadoes On The Homestead

Dealing With Tornadoes On The Homestead You’ve seen them on TV, or in our case on The Weather Channel dot com, since we don’t have a television. Kind of exciting, tornadoes are, from afar. That is, until you experience one first hand. Mostly in the mid-west, you’ll see video clips of these destructive twisters carrying […]

Mid-July Homestead Update

Mid-July Homestead Progress Update We’ve finally arrived at the mid-July point of the summer, which means that the garden is growing like crazy. But before I get to the vegetables, let’s talk about some of the other aspects of the homestead. The goats are doing terrifically. The two babies, which are not really babies anymore, […]

Milking The Family Goat

My Journey Learning To Milk Goats Four years ago when we first came to the homestead and began in earnest, after all the planning had been accomplished, after all the numbers had been run, and after all the garden maps had been drawn and put away, I never in my wildest dreams had thought I’d […]

You Can Do It!

You Can Do It! Yes, you can fix that house. Maybe not everything, but most repairs can be made yourself. If you are homesteading, you ought to be in a state of austerity, anyway, so you should be trying to save dollars wherever and whenever you can. You won’t necessarily be able to repair and […]

Compost Toilets, Are They Right For You?

Compost Toilets, Are They Right For You? Well, about a year and a half ago we made a turn onto the Humanure Highway. Yep, you read correctly. We just became sick and tired of the thought of putting our excrement into perfectly great clean drinking water, and then flushing it…’away’. That is what society does […]

Compost

Compost Apropos that I write about composting this week seeing as how we just hauled three trailer loads of the black gold from a nearby dairy farm, to supplement our own supply of the stuff. We place four trash cans on our little tow-behind trailer, and drive perhaps five miles and hand load our prize. […]