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A Guide to Raised Bed Gardening
Add to Favorites Raised bed gardening is the ideal solution for overcoming both poor soil conditions and seasonal weather. Beds constructed on top of the ground may be filled with …
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Deer Fencing Tips to Protect Wildlife and Gardens
Add to Favorites If you homestead near wildlife, you may have only two options: good deer fencing or no garden. “What’s wrong with sharing your bounty?” I often hear newbie …
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Turning Two Outbuildings into a Cheap Metal Shed
Add to Favorites Romie Holl – On my property, there were two metal structures that I wanted to combine into one cheap metal shed. One was an 18 x 22 garage, …
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Choosing Electric Fencing for Horses
Add to Favorites Installing electric fencing for horses is probably one of the smartest decisions we’ve made on our homestead. The heart of owning a horse 101 is fencing. Without it, …
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Understanding Forage Production and Forage Quality
Add to Favorites By John Hibma – Forages are the foundation of all livestock diets. The production and feeding of high-quality forages will help ensure that livestock grows at an optimal …
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Small-Scale Agritourism Ideas to Boost Profits
Add to Favorites By Barbara Berst Adams – On-farm visitors can help even the smallest farms increase the bottom line. Whether a farm is full-time or part-time, many very small farms …
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Small-Scale Agritourism Ideas to Boost Profits
Add to Favorites By Barbara Berst Adams – On-farm visitors can help even the smallest farms increase the bottom line. Whether a farm is full-time or part-time, many very small farms …
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Kitchen Scraps and Coffee Grounds for Plants
Add to Favorites Composting isn’t always a fine art. Sometimes, it just means saving coffee grounds for plants and dumping them on the soil. When I started my first garden …
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How to Start Composting: You, Too, Can Be a Composting Fool
Add to Favorites By Lisa Jansen – I wanted to learn how to start composting, but I was skeptical the first time I tried it on my own. Could I really …
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Winterize Your Garden with a Cover Crop of Austrian Winter Peas
Add to Favorites As winter approaches and you harvest the last of summer’s vegetables from your garden, sowing Austrian winter peas is an ideal way to protect your precious garden soil through the winter while providing green manure in …
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Illinois Farmer Finds Labor Savings and Versatility with Skid Steer Grapple
Add to Favorites by Mike Kloster, President of Worksaver, Inc. – Farmer Tom Justison recently bought a Sweep Action Rock Grapple (SARG) from Worksaver, Inc. to use on his family farm …
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Free Range Pig Farming on the Homestead
Add to Favorites By Al Doyle – With free-range pig farming, you’ll be raising your own high-quality meat. Like other home-raised food products, meat from a homestead hog is far superior …
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Raising Pigs for Meat in Your Own Backyard
Add to Favorites By Kay Wolfe – There was a time when every rural household had a pig or two they were “fattening” for the winter. In just one generation, …
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What to Feed Meat Rabbits
Add to Favorites By Charlcie Gill, Zodiac Rabbitry – I read with interest Mary Kilmer’s article “Gleanings from Woodland Rabbitry” (Countryside – Volume 88/2). I have been breeding and raising rabbits for meat …
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How to Breed Rabbits
Here are five tips on how to breed rabbits (plus some extras I wish I’d known when I started).
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