Does your delicious homemade goat cheese elicit requests to buy it? If so, unless you are a licensed home producer—which likely involved having to spend thousands of dollars on facilities and equipment and jumping through many hoops—unfortunately you probably have ...
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13 Creative Ways To Eat Kale (And 8 Good Reasons You Should)
Kale is everywhere these days — in the produce section of health food and big box stores, on the pages of foodie magazines and nutritional bulletins, and in all sorts of gardens. But not everyone has jumped on the kale ...
Read More »Ornamental Edibles: Vegetables That Can Beautiful Your Landscape AND Feed You
Busy homesteaders do not have much time to devote to aesthetics. Those of us devoted to raising our own food and leading an independent way of life usually need to stay focused on practical endeavors — spending the warm seasons ...
Read More »Is This The Best Low-Cost, Low-Maintenance Livestock You Can Own?
I cannot say enough good things about goats. They are economical, hardy, easy keepers, clean, and likeable. They are my favorite homestead animal, for many reasons. Read on to learn some great details about goats, and you might decide that ...
Read More »Wise Preppers Don’t Just Stockpile Food. They Do This, Too.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Most people are familiar with the old proverb, but not everyone has considered how its wisdom ...
Read More »Goats And Toxic Plants: Separating Fact From Fiction
Despite the fact that goats have a reputation of being able to digest anything, there are plenty of plants that are potentially toxic to them, and savvy goat owners do well to stay informed about possible poisons that might be ...
Read More »The 2 Most Important Tenets Of Prepping
“Someday it’s all going to come down to whether or not we can feed ourselves,” I told my son one day, not long after my husband and I began to realize the importance of being prepared for an uncertain global ...
Read More »‘Buy Local’ Isn’t Just For Left-Wingers. Here’s Why.
Local sourcing for food and other goods is all the buzz nowadays, for a lot of reasons. Many people know about and agree with at least some of the reasons, which include supporting our neighbors, using less water and petroleum ...
Read More »Everything You’ve Wanted To Know About Mulching (But Didn’t Want To Ask)
The question came during a car ride to the annual co-op tree sale, when my farm apprentice asked one of our passengers, a seasoned self-described permaculturist, for a definition of what she did. After a few halting starts describing site-planning ...
Read More »America’s Food Supply Chain Is Fragile. I Learned That The Hard Way.
I stopped at a supermarket recently to pick up a few items. I live out in the country and stay pretty well stocked up on food and supplies most of the time, but I keep a running list and make ...
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