Freezing is an easy and convenient way to save time and money when it comes to feeding your family. You can make meals ahead and freeze them for future use. You can freeze seasonal fruits and vegetables for the winter. ...
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The 5 Best Meat Goat Breeds For Your Homestead
Raising goats for meat can be a fun and even profitable enterprise. Determining what breed is best suited to your homestead should be based on the amount of land available, goals, and the breeds that are available in your region. ...
Read More »The Surprisingly Healthy Diet Your Ancestors Ate
Diet trends tend to come and go, but a recent one with staying power is the Paleo diet. With its promises of improving your metabolism, your heart health, your blood sugar and your weight, the Paleo diet focuses on foods ...
Read More »The Best Way To Butcher A Chicken
Now that we are heading into fall, it is time to begin thinking about butchering those animals set aside for providing meat. Not all homesteaders or off-the-grid lifestyles include meat animals but for those that do, this is a busy ...
Read More »How To Guarantee Your Dried Foods Never Get Bugs
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been canning and preserving food from your garden for years … decades even. I remember helping my great-grandmothers shell peas and stem green beans way back when I was 3 or 4 years old. ...
Read More »How To Raise Backyard Chickens In ‘The Big City’
Before we discuss the how of raising backyard chickens in the city, suburbs or even the homestead, we need to take a look at the why. Why would you take up space in your yard or homestead for silly flightless ...
Read More »Why Homestead Goats Are Easier Than Cows And Better Than Chickens
I’m sure many of us remember hearing at one time or another that a goat will eat just about anything. A fellow I once knew told me you can never trust a goat around farm equipment because they will eat ...
Read More »6 Livestock You Can Raise On Just 1/4 An Acre
Living out in the middle of nowhere is appealing … but not always possible. Living in the suburbs, though, doesn’t mean you can’t have the farm you’ve always wanted. There are lots of resources that teach about gardening in small ...
Read More »Hurdling: The Secret Food Preservation Technique That Can Add Years To Shelf Life
As a species we know a lot about food preservation. It started thousands of years ago and it has kept us alive to this day. But in many of those tried-and-true techniques, we sometimes engage in a food preservation process ...
Read More »4 Ways To Put Meat On The Table When The Lights Go Out
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 ...
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