homestead

I would prefer not to drive. I’ve been walking about a ¼ mile to release them. Is that far enough?

A wire broke off the ignitor element in our Harman unit. I have ordered a replacement and it looks simple enough to fix myself. But before sourcing the part I had called about 5 different fireplace companies in the area, and it seems everyone has dropped all support for pellet stoves in recent years! Not only does no one sell...

He said yes....

I just posted a few pictures of the chicken disassembly process. In deference to the vegans and those of delicate constitution I followed the community rules (which I wrote) and marked the post NSFW....

We are a small, homestead farm. We aim for zero waste processing and have achieved it with our chicken processing. Here’s how we do it....

I just posted a note about a post that I made and marked with the four letter acronym flag. The second post included the four letter acronym. If you have that four letter acronym blocked you won’t see either post. If you want to see what is all about remove the filters temporarily so that you can....

It took us 6 hours to harvest and process 42 chickens. They are in the fridge with bags of ice between them to make sure they cool down. Tomorrow I will part most of them. We are keeping these ones for ourselves for the winter. We would normally sell half of the fall batch but the summer was crazy and our plans changed so...

A few weeks ago we got 40 (45) broilers. They’re almost done....

I am the lucky owner of a 20m blackberry hedge. Last years yield was about 15kg and thus year looks to be the same....

Our girl cat brought a rat she’d either killed or found already dead to our patio (she hasn’t done this for a few years)....

I have a lot of fallen trees on my property. Obviously I salvage what I can for firewood, but most of it is half rotten and not suitable for either firewood nor building....

What are some of your favourite tools (types of tools , brands, specific tools) or equipment for use around the homestead?...

Hello, everyone....

I’ll get to giving this community an icon and a banner tomorrow....