Is is unsafe or unnatural to have your hens lay more eggs through the winter with the help of supplemental light? Find out in this video! See the Extended Version… Become a Pioneer! Get a Leatherman Knife 10% off at NWSupply.net using coupon code “homesteady”
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Get Your Chickens to Lay More Eggs During the Winter!
Winter usually slows egg production for your backyard chickens. Use the 3 tips in this video to make sure your chickens lay more eggs all winter long! High Protein Feed Fresh Non Frozen Water Extra Light
Mushroom Hunting 101: You Can Do It! (and should…)
Enjoy this Guest Post from Author and Mushroom Hunter Jared White from Adventuresinmushrooming.blogspot.com: Mushrooms! We run across them all the time… They’re in our gardens, they’re on our trees, they’re sometimes even inside our houses (yikes). Some folks are terrified by them. Others, mostly children (including a smaller version of myself) are absolutely repulsed by them, […]
What Super Mario taught me about foraging
I’m a child of the 90’s. (Born in ’87, don’t remember any of the 80’s) So there’s Mariah Carey, Power Rangers, and of course, Super Mario. And I played Mario like the best of ’em. If you have never played the classic Mario game, there’s a common occurrence. Mario runs along, and suddenly encounters multiple […]
Why every homesteader needs to learn to shoot… and where to start if you have never shot a gun in your life… Like me!
If you don’t think you need to shoot on your homestead, you are wrong. A gun is needed when humanely dispatching an animal, protecting your flock from predation, and for hunting or removing animals eating your crops. The point is, Homesteading requires the ability to calmly shoot a gun (or bow). Eight years ago I […]
Wild Harvest – The Whitetail Deer
Learning to Hunt Alone is Hard Take the Wild Harvest Course! In this episode of Homesteady, we discussed learning to hunt, and how many mistakes one can make when learning without a mentor. Aust learned to hunt by trial and error for his first few years, spooking many a deer his first year. After still hunting […]
