Homesteading And Livestock
The proper skills and right animals turn a homestead into a closed loop: tools, how-to tips, eggs, milk, meat, wool, and honey for the table, manure for the garden, and help with the work in between. The guides here are organized by chore, goals, and animal, so you can start with the one you’re considering or take your skills to the next level.
Chicken Flock Positions
Melissa Caughey
Our Suburban Farm
Kelly and Nick Kapple
Dear Mother: Green Bean Harvest, Career Changes and Pallet Building
Letters From Our Readers
Storm-Felled Firewood, Click Training and Solar Batteries
Reader Letters
Essential Oils: Helping Your Birds Live Their Best Lives
Staff
Dear Mother: Remembering Loyd Bruce Holman
Letters From Our Readers
Reviving Hog Traditions
Charles Luke
Raising Sheep for Excellent Quality Wool, Part 1
Kat Ludlam, Willow Creek Farm
Tips to Prepare Your Dairy for Winter
Readers
Putting Pigs and Chickens to Work Clearing Land
Jo Devries
How to Buy a Homestead for Cash
Kerry W. Mann, Jr., Homesteadhow
Why We Use Reusable Canning Lids
Kat Ludlam, Willow Creek Farm
Building An Emergency Poultry Kit
Fala Burnette
Homeschool with Confidence: Custom Design Your High School Curriculum
Sheryl Campbell
Counting Blessings is Central to Home-Scale Resilience
Jo Devries
Keeping Chickens in the City
Dalia Monterroso
Unexpected Opportunities
Oscar H. Will III
6 Ways to Practice Climate Farming
Jeff Meyer
Country Wisdom from Mom That Holds Up Today
Bruce Mcelmurray
Rattlesnakes on the Homestead
Kat Ludlam, Willow Creek Farm
