by April | Last Updated: Jan 6, 2022 | Animals, DIY Homesteading, Rabbits
 Now, I know it’s almost spring, the snow is almost gone, maybe not at my house but at most peoples. So why am I talking about cold-weather rabbit hutches when it’s spring? Most people when they start out raising meat rabbits will get their first rabbits...
by Jessica | Last Updated: Mar 23, 2018 | Rabbits
I find it appropriate to start this blog as winter gives way to spring, a new chance, a new start. As roving bands of turkeys strut through my yard in all their gaudy glory, I realize winter truly is over. Our end of winter in rural Eastern Oregon usually ends...
by Jessica | Last Updated: Mar 5, 2018 | Rabbits
My sister April, first started talking about purchasing meat rabbits a few years ago but was having difficulty finding good breeding stock in Alaska. She always visits Oregon in the summer so I thought I would look for a few rabbits of breeding age where I live, and...
by Jessica | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | Chickens, Poultry
If I could only pick one animal to have on my homestead, it would be chickens. Hands down, no contest! I know I am not alone in my thinking, I recently read a study that claims chickens are kept in every major city in the United States! In the last 3 years, an...
by Jessica | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | Animals, DIY Homesteading, Gardening
This blog is our way of sharing wisdom and the things we have learned about homesteading, if I was being completely honest it should be called ‘101 Mistakes and How Not to Make Them in Homesteading’.  About 10 years ago my family and I found this...
