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Homesteading Magazines
I know there are more homesteading websites, blogs, and YouTube channels than we can possibly keep up with these days. But does anyone else still love the feel of a real print magazine in their hands? I suppose Mother Earth News is the first one most folks think of; it's been around since 1970! But my favorites are…
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Amazon is sharing Judson's podcast
judsoncarroll4 Thought you would find this interesting. Did a search on Fr. Kneipp while listening to Judson's podcast and found this...
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Spring Projects
What spring projects are you working on? I am turning a leaf box(the size of a small shed) into a mini barn! I am using pallet wood and repurposed items as much as I can. I'll keep you posted!
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What an awesome little place
She started with a shed and no electricity.
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Let's Talk Mosquitos
Or, how to keep them away from my garden spot. I just saw this article and wondered if anyone has had luck with any of these plants? FYI, catnip is not an option because I don't want to draw in more stray cats!
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What I think of every time vermiculture is discussed...
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Redoing the rabbitat
Last year I ended up with a few extra rabbits right before winter. That's not the best time to be creating a rabbit shed or home. I had an older chain link dog kennel I could use so I used old doors for a roof and put up tarps around the kennel. I put a better safer door on the front and predator proofed the kennel. I had…
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Thought I'd found some land
So bummed. I thought I'd found some land to purchase on TX/La border. Virgin forest land. It was so promising- great location, owner financed, etc. Then I discovered there were several restrictions I did not like. I want a plot of land for animals and food, and it just wouldn't work. Can you believe, they even wanted to…
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It is amazing how much usable stuff we have been able to find for free!
I had put this in another post and it occurred to me that it bears repeating (or reminding) for us all. I have a friend who does lawn maintenance for people and he has to bag up the leaves and clippings each time. We have a deal worked out where I keep him in eggs and he keeps me in non sprayed or treated leaves and…
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The Coffee Cup Trail
One of my favorite parts of a day is to walk the gardens in the morning. I check for new growth, any gardening issues and just enjoy the sun peeking up over the hill and the fog rolling off the creek. As with any morning walk my coffee cup goes with me to take the chill off the morning fog or dew. What a beautiful relaxing…
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Gardening tips
Is there a gardening tip that saves you time or just adds a little fun to your gardening or garden area? I like to put an old mailbox in or near my garden. Its a fun look and it will hold my garden string, clippers, seeds and anything I am using in the next day or two. It saves me a lot of time putting it away and them…
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
Being a Carroll, I can't let this day pass unnoticed! I hope y'all enjoy this day, with some corned beef and cabbage, potato soup, soda bread and a pint of Guinness! Well, actually salt cured pork or smoked salmon is a bit more traditional, but corned beef sure is good! And, the beer is optional. But, do enjoy it!
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Peepers are back!
We were discussing in another thread about the lose of water life after this winter's disastrous weather. Well I am happy to announce my frogs are back and noisy. I also have gold fish that survived. And even though the temp was well below zero for days and my chicken coups are not heated, the only chicken damage was some…
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What is your favorite "unusual" tool?
Mine is the extra wheelchair. It sits in the utility room with the recycle newspaper/magazine box on it. It is often used to bring the load of groceries into the house, move the bag of used kitty litter to the garbage can. Anything too bulky or awkward to carry (within reason) will get moved using it. What's yours?
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Four free rabbits and a photo hog
When I picked up my goats they were also getting rid of their rabbits and offered them to me free. So I took them. Overall they are in good shape. There are two meat type rabbits and two lionhead. The lionheads are really cute. As with any new animals they go in to quarantine. But, one lionhead had mites in the ear bad…
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Computer issues and illness
I know I have been missing for a little while. Having internet issues. And now my husband and I both have Covid. Chills, coughing like crazy till I choke. I do this every time I get bronchitis too. Not able to sleep, just doze in and out. I am still here and will try to get back to participating, but hard to stop coughing…
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Best pool shot ever by a white chick (HUMOR)
OK, just the subject line probably offended somebody... but get over your political correctness for just a moment, this short video is funny.
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Multi-fuel cooker
In a previous topic about disaster preps, @torey, @Mary Linda Bittle, West Plains, Missouri and I were mentioning butane cookers. I brought up a multi-fuel cooker that is able to use butane and propane in the same unit. This article just got posted on American Survival Guide's website. Not too expensive to have as a backup…
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Selleck, need I say more...Great article, great magazine, Awesome pictures
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Checking In
Hello friends! This is my first opportunity to check in with the group to see what's new. It's been one of those weeks. Along with an especially busy and frustrating week at my 12 hour hospital food service job, my little formerly stray cat, Jolene, spent a night at the vet to be spayed, have the broken and floppy end of…
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Neighborhood Comedy Stories
My neighbors down the road were fun comical people who I loved dearly. They did not live in the small camp long, maybe eight years. They had been city folk, who loved to camp, but living in the country along a creek was a different kind of living. We helped them as much as we could and you never knew exactly what to expect…
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Has Spring arrived?
I was enjoying seeing the bees leave their hives, a little green peaking up from the ground, the sound of birds and sunshine on my bare arms! Oh my!! And today it is freezing! Do you have Spring, freezing weather or a combo?
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Adding animals to your homestead or property
I already have chickens, rabbits, ducks, quail and goats. Before I add an animal I weigh the time it will take to take care of them, try to streamline the time it will take and figure out if the costs will balance out time. I also have to set my animal area to be easy to maintain or somewhat self care as I have to travel…
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hilarious, short vid by my fav Ausie
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How to build a community
I have thought of how you could build or rebuild a community a lot and much more since this pandemic that kept us at home and made us realize we need to be more self sufficient. I moved to a neighborhood where if you had not lived there for 50 years you were an outsider. The neighbors right beside us were nice, the rest, I…
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Garden humor?
I want to start gardening, but I haven’t botany plants. What’s small, red and whispers? A hoarse radish. I was offered a job as a gardener, but I didn’t take it because the celery was too low. I have a bird feeder in the garden It also works as a cat feeder What kind of vegetable do you get when an elephant walks through…
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Survival is a team sport
Was reading this article and this quote rang true. It;s the lead paragraph under Working Together. Sounds like TGN to me.
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Practicing survival techniques
This is part of what my lab (topic from a while that I need to update) is for.
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Animal personalities
Many people say animals do no have personalities. I know when mine are happy or sad. They are non stop laughter, even when they are trying to be serious. I let my one smaller chickens out to forage today. Not an easy feat with ice patches but they still love it. They are out doing happy dances and I think having races. My…
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Its stressful selling animals!
Honestly...you don't have to read this. It is long. But sometimes... Right now it's my breeder birds. Next, it could be our bull. We haven't decided on that just yet. Dealing with the wording and putting together good and accurate information, taking nice pictures, deciding on an appropriate asking price...I put a lot of…
