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Why Have My Laying Hens Stopped Laying Eggs? Learn Why It Happens

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Why Have My Laying Hens Stopped Laying Eggs? Learn Why It Happens

Simple Cut Out Sugar Cookies with Natural, Yet Vibrant, Rainbow Icing

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Simple Cut Out Sugar Cookies with Natural, Yet Vibrant, Rainbow Icing

Fried chicken on a wooden cutting board with fresh veggies in the background.

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Make KFC-Style Fried Chicken at Home with Healthier Ingredients

These old-fashioned rolled oat cookies are excellent for gift giving. You can gift them as drop cookies or use cookie cutters and make sandwiches out of them.

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Rolled Oat Sandwich Cookies with Caramel Apple Frosting

Roosters show aggression for a variety of reasons. They perceive you as a threat or they want to dominate you. Occasionally, your rooster will just be a jerk.

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A Non-Aggressive Approach to Aggressive Roosters

Finally, I discovered how to make pumpkin cookies chewy instead of cakey. These yummy pumpkin cookies with maple icing are sure to be a hit during autumn celebrations.

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Chewy Pumpkin Cookies with Maple Icing

A lean-to style chicken coop with a red door in a snowy backyard.

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How to Prepare Your Chicken House & Barn for Winter

A polytunnel set up in a backyard garden.

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How to Extend Your Growing Season with a Polytunnel

Discover the answers to farm fresh eggs frequently asked questions.Why farm yolks are so dark? Does a blood spot mean it's fertile? Does the color change the flavor?

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What You Need to Know About Farm Fresh Eggs

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies [Regular or Gluten-Free with Bob’s 1-to-1]

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Double Chocolate Chip Cookies [Regular or Gluten-Free with Bob’s 1-to-1]

Shortbread Pinwheel Cookies: Perfect for Every Holiday

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Shortbread Pinwheel Cookies: Perfect for Every Holiday

A jar of homemade pumpkin puree on a table with small pumpkins.

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Fresh Flavors, Simple Steps: A Guide to Making Pumpkin Puree

8 Tricks for Extraordinary Cookies from Scratch You Need to Know

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8 Tricks for Extraordinary Cookies from Scratch You Need to Know

Butterbeer is a Harry Potter inspired warm milk drink with a caramel and brown sugar kick. A huge hit with kids that enjoy the books and movies.

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Yummy Butterbeer {alcohol free}

Marigolds flowers are more than just a pretty flower. They are miracle flowers. After reading this, you'll never look at a marigold flower the same way.

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Miracle Marigold Flowers

A bunch of chicken eggs in different colors.

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An Egg In Every Hue: The Secret to Getting Various Egg Colors

Two empty jelly-sized mason jars sitting on a counter with burlap in the background.

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Water Bath Canning Recipes and Tips for New Canners

Proper storage of your common food items will increase their freshness duration and prevent premature spoiling. Learn how to store these foods correctly.

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Store Food for Optimal Freshness

With people's desire to eat local and know where their food is coming from, farms are popping up all over. Kathy Mormino is making headlines in her battle to keep chickens.

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Chicken Outlaws: Changing Ordinances

Tulips are also one of the easiest flowers to grow in your garden. Plant the bulb in fall and leave it alone to find great flowers in the spring.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Planting the Perfect Tulip Garden

A chicken flying in the backyard.

Homestead Animals

How to Clip Chicken Wings and Keep Your Flock Safe

Not everyone loves veggies, but hiding vegetables in your recipes can get your family eating healthier without even knowing it. Kid friendly!

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Hiding Vegetables from Picky Eaters: 3 Easy Recipes

Broccoli is a vegetable that I find incredibly difficult to harvest. It's not actually the harvesting part that is difficult, it's the timing that's hard.

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When to Harvest Broccoli

“Are goats worth it?” And to that one question, I can answer an unequivocal “Yes.” New skills are not won easily; they have to be earned.

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Goat Dreams, Goat Realities

Soap nuts falling out of a mason jar onto burlap.

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Discover the Magic of Soap Nuts: More Than Just Laundry

You might be wondering when is the right time to switch to the next stage of feed. Timelines for those using commercial feed. Plus, feeding roosters, drakes, toms.

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When to Switch Your Poultry’s Feed

Find out what tools are essential in a homesteader's kitchen. Let's be honest. Simple living isn't always simple, but with these tools, it can be a bit easier.

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A Homesteader’s Kitchen Essentials

A canvas and a crochet netted reusable bag.

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: 15 DIY Reusable Totes for Every Day

Folded orange bed sheets.

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Don’t Toss Them Out! Upcycle Your Old Bed Sheets

Many people wonder when and how to prune their tomatoes. What are tomato suckers? How do you remove them? When shouldn't you remove tomato suckers?

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Should You Remove Tomato Suckers

Why a hen sings after laying an egg and what the Egg Song sounds like. It will be music to your ears when you get your first chickens.

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How Much Noise Do Hens Make? The Egg Song

Today I am going to share with you one of my favorite peanut butter recipes. Homemade peanut butter cups. It will be sure to delight everyone.

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Yummy Peanut Butter Cups

Fermented chicken feed is great for saving money and it helps with the birds' digestion. Great when you need to shave off a few bucks from your poultry bills.

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Fermenting Chicken Feed: Less Money, More Nutrition

4 Cheese Baked Macaroni & Cheese: Homestyle Goodness from Scratch

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4 Cheese Baked Macaroni & Cheese: Homestyle Goodness from Scratch

Herbs and herbal supplies laid out on a dark wood table.

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The Top Reasons to Start Crafting Your Own Herbal Remedies

Homemade Tortillas Recipe

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Homemade Tortillas Recipe

Here are a few recipe hacks my fabulous blogging friends shared with me that I plan to start making myself. They are all relatively quick and easy to make.

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Homemade Tortillas and Other Foods to Make from Scratch

A sunny vegetable garden with shadows over the herbs.

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Sun Map 101: An Easy Guide to Mapping the Sun Without Gadgets

Kids get hurt a lot. Make sure you are equipped for injuries that go beyond the scope of mommy kisses. Check out this Natural First Aid Kit

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Natural First Aid & Mommy Kisses

Whether you are a backyard hobby homesteader or an avid homesteader on your journey to live off-grid, these are the homesteading articles you want to be reading.

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Safe Egg Handling Practices

I am excited to share this awesome natural deodorant recipe with you. Not only because it works when you're perspiring, but it also cuts back on the amount of perspiration over time.

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How to Make Natural Deodorant Fast and Easy

Swales are an amazing permaculture implementation for your homestead - It's a designing system that work harder than you do.

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Swales are Just Swell for the Homestead