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A newborn Nigerian dwarf goat.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

What to Expect When Your Goat is Pregnant and Laboring

A very pregnant Nigerian dwarf dairy goat standing out in the field.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

What to Expect When You’re Breeding Your Dairy Goats

Three jars of jam in vibrant colors—blackberry, strawberry, and apricot—surrounded by fresh fruit on a bright table.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

How to Make Jam Without Sugar or Sweeteners (Like Honey)

A yellow duckling hatching out of an egg.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

How to Achieve High Hatch Rates with Duck Eggs in Your Incubator

I love the simplicity of these crochet Christmas ornaments. It’s perfect to add a little something extra to your tree. Enjoy DIYing your holiday season.

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

Easy DIY Crochet Christmas Ornaments

Christmas Decorating on a Budget: Santa-Approved Holiday Crafts

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

Christmas Decorating on a Budget: Santa-Approved Holiday Crafts

A cozy overhead view of multiple hands reaching for bowls of various soups, including bean stew, creamy mushroom soup, green broccoli soup, and squash soup, arranged on a table with bread and cloth napkins.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

10 Best Winter Soups to Warm You Up on Chilly Days

Roast beef sitting in green beans in the slow-cooker.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

2-for-1 Slow Cooker Beef Roast plus Bonus Bean Soup!

How to Dry Your Homegrown Herbs Quickly & Easily with a Dehydrator

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How to Dry Your Homegrown Herbs Quickly & Easily with a Dehydrator

How to Prepare Your Homestead for the Winter Season

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

How to Prepare Your Homestead for the Winter Season

Naming Your Dairy Goat for ADGA Registration [all the rules]

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

Naming Your Dairy Goat for ADGA Registration [all the rules]

Animal enrichment is activities that create a more stimulating environment for the animals and elicit some of their natural behaviors.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

What is Enrichment? How It’s Important for Livestock

A rain barrel connected to a downspout collecting water in a lush garden, surrounded by colorful flowers and greenery.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

24 Practical Water Conservation Tips for Your Homestead

My homestead is not a theme park, petting zoo, or quaint local tourist spot. It is my home. Here's the reasons why you can't just stop by unannounced.

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My Homestead: Why You Can’t Come Unannouced

20 Creative & Inspiring Milk Jug Crafts: Upcycling Ideas

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20 Creative & Inspiring Milk Jug Crafts: Upcycling Ideas

Flax seed crackers arranged on a wooden plate with a wooden spoon full of flax seeds.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

A Recipe for Healthy Flax Seed Crackers in the Dehydrator

Make Your Own Herbal Goat Treats with Flax & Supplements

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

Make Your Own Herbal Goat Treats with Flax & Supplements

Anyone can plant pretty flowers, but it takes time and effort to maintain a garden and keep it looking beautiful day after day.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

How to Keep Your Garden Looking Great

Slicing tomatoes growing on the vine in my garden.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

10 Tips for Growing Lush, Bountiful Tomato Plants

I’ve been experimenting with natural ways to keep mosquitoes away for a few years, and I’ve found a few things that work for me.

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

Ways to Keep Mosquitoes Away Naturally

A stack of homemade butter blocks.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

4 Ways to Make Homemade Butter from Raw Milk (Cow or Goat)

A close-up of ants gathering around a homemade bait station with food and poison to take back to the colony.

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

How to Get Rid of Ants Naturally with Diatomaceous Earth

Are you getting ready to add fiber rabbits to your backyard farm? Rabbits are the perfect choice for someone who wants to start producing their own fibers.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

Raising Fiber Rabbits – What You Need to Know

Gardeners and farmers have hard-working hands that need TLC. This homemade hand cream helps moisturize and soothe rough, achy hands.

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Soothing & Healing Hand Cream for Farmers/Gardeners

A bottle of hard apple cider on a wooden table with apples around it.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

A Beginner’s Guide to Brewing Hard Apple Cider at Home

A teapot pouring hot water into three minimalist white teacups with steam rising, set on a wooden table.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Detox Teas and Hot Drinks for a Healthier, Refreshed You

Disbudding, the procedure of burning off the horns, is unpleasant. Every time we disbudded our goat kids we would ask ourselves, Is this necessary?

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

Pros and Cons of Disbudding Your Goat

A ripe banana with its peel partially open, a rustic knife, and a glass bowl containing mashed banana and honey on a wooden surface.

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

6 Easy Homemade Face Masks for Glowing, Healthy Skin

Hyssop: Why You Need to Make Some Space for This Herb

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Hyssop: Why You Need to Make Some Space for This Herb

A collection of essential first aid supplies, including gauze, adhesive tape, scissors, thermometer, bandages, and medication, displayed on a rustic wooden surface."

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

Essential Guide to Assembling a First Aid Kit for Your Homestead

Many people see polenta in the health food store and just keep on walking, but you don't want to miss out on this awesome side dish substitute.

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Polenta: A Gluten-Free Alternative to Grains

Solar cooking is an energy-efficient, set-and-forget method of cooking. Learn how to get started and what to expect from your solar oven.

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Cooking With Help From the Sun {Solar Cooking}

Back to Eden Container Gardening: Small-Scale Permaculture

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Back to Eden Container Gardening: Small-Scale Permaculture

Two Californian meat rabbits on a wooden table with bushes in the background.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

A Homestead Guide to Meat Rabbit Breeding Stock Selection

How does the modern homesteader manage to balance everything that needs to be done? Amazing organization. Simple living doesn't have to be hard.

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

Organization for Busy Homesteaders {Printables}

Open book and cozy mug on a windowsill with a snowy background.

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15 Must-Read Homesteading Books for Every Skill Level

Plant your produce in rich, healthy soil. Go a step further and choose organic and natural amendments to enhance your soil quality and correct imbalances.

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Organic Amendments for Healthy Soil

12+ Fun Ways to Upcycle Holiday Cards After the Season

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12+ Fun Ways to Upcycle Holiday Cards After the Season

I eat applesauce not only as a snack, but I also enjoy recipes using applesauce. Homemade applesauce is delicious, but I like to give it some pizzazz with add-ons.

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Homemade Applesauce & Recipes Using Applesauce

Ducks actually have a couple of molting phases and each one looks different. The effects are most obvious in drakes. Spring, summer and fall molts.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

Your Seasonal Guide to Duck Molting

How to Make Homemade Fire Cider for Cold & Flu Season

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How to Make Homemade Fire Cider for Cold & Flu Season

Black gold. It's essential in the garden. Most choose the bovine poo, but there are many manure options to choose from, each with their own unique benefits.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

What a load of… Manure