When we think homesteading, it is easy to get excited and caught up with beautiful photos of gardens and animals: it’s why we love to keep chickens, and grow apples, and harvest from our gardens. While this is a big part of setting up and running your own homestead, much of the homesteading ‘magic’ happens […]
What do honeybees do in the winter?
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After several weeks of procrastination, my husband has finally stepped up to the challenge of putting up a post. With any luck he’ll be a regular contributor to The Backyard Farming Connection, sharing his thoughts on the Farm to Table Movement and whatever else wanders through his head. Without further ado, here’s Dave: Seeds to
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A hurricane is heading your way and, it is being proceeded by flurry of activity. People are battening up the hatches so to speak and getting their homes and families ready for the possibility of flooding, high winds, power outages, and whatever else might be in store. So what are the top things to do to
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It’s inevitable that at some point you will head out to your coop getting ready to greet your beautiful, sleek hen only to discover some scrawny, skittish, featherless, ugly chicken. And then to add insult to injury, there are no eggs in your egg box, and the amount of feathers everywhere make you wonder if
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