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Milestones (and a Brief Hiatus)
One of my rules is pay more, eat less. You do get what you pay for, and if you’re willing to pay more for pastured eggs or grass-fed beef, you’re getting something that’s more delicious, and you’ll feel better about eating it. Michael Pollan – author of The Omnivores Dilema Welcome back, homestead fam! You…
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Death on the Farm (And Hope for the Future)
It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death. Temple Grandin We’ve been truly blessed in our experience with animals here on the homestead.…
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Size Matters
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Elanore Roosevelt Consider this a public service announcement. Not all chickens are the same. When we first began our chicken journey we started our small. Just a few chickens. Except that the few chickens became 17 chickens. Chicken math.…
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When There’s Too Much Drama in the Coop
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connetion to a life where a rooster crows in the yard. Barbara Kingsolver Chickens. They’re like the gateway animal to homesteading and farming. At first you’re just a…