by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | DIY Homesteading
Nobody can tell anybody else exactly how to start homesteading. Everyone’s situation is different; people live in different areas, have different climates, have a lot of money, are dead broke, hate pigs, you get the idea. So I’m not going to provide you...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | DIY Homesteading
I like to try new things every year with gardening and animals such as: new breeds of peas, homemade incubators, different watering systems, places to set my beehive; you get the picture. Tinkering, I like to call it, or some people would call it ‘improving...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | DIY Homesteading
Some people, like myself, foolishly thought that owning a farm or homestead meant you had acres of maintained green lawn, huge hay fields, a big red barn, or at the very least a big log house. Mmmm? I must have read too many books growing up because not only does my...
by Jessica | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | DIY Homesteading, Poultry, Turkeys
Autumn makes me think of vibrant leaves, warm soups, pumpkins, comfy sweaters, and harvesting the bounty that I have nurtured for the last 6 months. Autumn is harvest season on our homestead. I harvest my garden, fruit trees and because I choose to be an omnivore, I...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | DIY Homesteading, Gardening
Another harvest season is almost behind me. Within a few weeks, it will start snowing here in Fairbanks, snowing and sticking. Every year I wonder what happened to spring, summer, and fall? In Fairbanks, the snow is usually gone around the first week of May and it...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | DIY Homesteading
Now in an ideal world, every homestead would contain an equal amount of gently sloped and flat land. Every homestead also would be south facing, have great soil, an ample water supply, some gentle shade trees, beautiful fields, a big red or white barn and plentiful...
