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Sustainable Animal Husbandry, Part 2
In the last article, we talked about the common practice of whole stock culling, which is when the decision is made to harvest all livestock at the prime age for storage, use, or sale. The pros of this method are fiscal savings by reducing feed usage to only a part of the year for livestock […]
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Sustainable Animal Husbandry, Beyond the Pantry. Part 1
It is very common amongst homesteaders, hobby farms, and larger animal farms to grow out meat and butcher as much as your freezer or pantry can hold for a season. Growing out is the process of getting young livestock, whether they be sheep, goats, cattle, pigs, or fowl, and raising them until they are at […]
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Augason Farms stops all production. Sign of the times?
We recieved the news this week, much like many of you, that Augason Farms is shutting its production down for the next 90 days. If you are unfamiliar with Augason Farms they produce number ten cans of freeze dried goods for long term storage. This includes soup mixes, bananas, strawberries, carrots, corn, cheese, dairy, meats […]
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Prepper Series: Part 3 Necessities for hygiene.
As we cover necessities and non food items to be stored, there are going to be items that may not apply to you or some that I have left off that do. I will do my best to address as many as I can. This post will focus on hygiene because the “necessities” category is […]
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Prepper Series Part 2: Water
This second part of the series is equally as important as part 1, food. Lets face it, you cannot live without water. You can fast from food for a long time. You can survive without a meal. You cannot survive without water. Water is necessary for cooking, hygiene and sanitation. There are two kinds of […]
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Prepping Series Part 1: Food
*Welcome! When I began this series the tragic fire at Tyson foods and the closure of four Del Monte factories had not been on my radar. We (as in this nation) have suffered a large loss of produce and meat this year. The floods, fires and other factors have resulted in a shortage of grains, […]
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Feathery Hope
It wasn’t too long ago that we hit a major slump. Okay, I did. My husband has been working a long-distance job for nearly 2 years. Somewhere at the year and half-mark, I started to slip. I had tried everything to be positive. I had wracked my brain about projects, to-do list items, anything that […]
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