When it comes to self sufficient living and creating food security for your family, raising animals for meat is hard to beat. Pasture…
On the homestead there are some amusing lessons to be learned and sometimes you have no choice other than to learn them. These…
Learning how to raise pigs has been a rewarding endeavor at our homestead. Our experience with raising pigs was a good one. We…
Last week we killed two roosters and before that we slaughtered pigs for the first time. It was very difficult. It’s been a…
Our pigs were a lovely addition to the farm and we have a 6.5LB bag of organic, raised with love, fat that needs…
We picked up our pigs as weaners, as small as puppies, from a local breeder. We put them in dog cages in the…
With a new year around the corner, and a beautiful full moon shining in the sky, I started to look back on our…
This month marks our first six months on the homestead completed. The past two weeks have been mostly all about the harvest. I…