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Lately, I have been very concerned about what is happening in this world. Terrorism around the globe, political games in D.C., and devastating natural disasters fill news reports every day. As a husband to my lovely bride and a father ...

Gray wolves are killing cattle and family pets in Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, and all residents can do is stand by and watch thanks to a federal judge’s ruling. In December, US District Judge Beryl Howell overturned the Obama administration’s ...

Homesteading is growing in popularity, as Americans look to get back to the basics. While images of log cabins out in the woods or farms miles away from civilization come to mind, you could technically homestead in a heavily populated ...

Many aspects of large agricultural projects and farming can be scaled down to work in a suburban or small homestead setting. Cover crops are one method that can work very well for people with small amounts of land that they ...

When it comes to adding livestock into your life in an effort to increase your self-sufficiency, there is one group of animals that is often forgotten: fiber livestock. The purposes of raising chickens, goats, ducks or even cattle are obvious. ...

Livestock feed can quickly get expensive. If you crunch some numbers, you may find that buying grain and other such commercial diets from a feed store ends up costing so much that raising your own meat, eggs or dairy doesn’t ...

There are few animals quite as synonymous to farm life as the dairy cow. For most people looking for a self-sufficient life on some land, the first two kinds of livestock that come to mind are chickens and cows. This ...

Modern-day homesteading is a consciously taken, voluntary decision to live in a highly self-sufficient manner. At one time in our history, everyone was a homesteader and lived a life full of hard physical labor just to put food on the ...

There’s a variety of ways you can maximize the efficiency of your homestead, and one of them is through zoning. Zoning is a design principle you’d most often hear of in permaculture circles. Permaculture, as the name implies, is a ...

Could proposed rules by the FDA end up shutting down organic farms nationwide if they don’t abandon their all-natural practices? That’s what the head of an organization that supports independent family farms believes, and it’s the subject of this week’s ...