I like to cook my own homegrown food for my friends and family. In this recipe I use homestead ground pork, eggs, onions and tomatoes. It is so fresh and tasty when you get your ingredients from your backyard. To me that’s what homesteading is all about. Then to be able to share it with …

I thought I needed a field garden of some kind to be a “real” gardener. You know, rows of plants in the ground. After getting almost nothing for three years that way I was desperate. I didn’t care how, I just wanted to grow veggies. This year I tried container gardening, and I’ve been growing …

When summer is about halfway through my friends start asking me if my hens are still laying eggs. My answer is always yes. My hens lay eggs all year very steady. Then I ask them, why do you ask? They say theirs quit and it must be because it’s too hot, but the temperature is …

I would like to talk about a very important aspect of homesteading. Adjustments, the need comes along quite often so I want to talk about having the right attitude while making adjustments. The most important thing is to not let yourself feel like a failure if you have to make an adjustment. If you’re like …

Learn how to take care of chicky babies.

How to trim pig toenails.

I’m trying a new approach in my garden this year. All I want to do is attract wild bees.