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Today as I harvested honey from my beehives, I was reminded: Bees do more than provide honey - they can extend your life. The frequency of bees buzzing is around 432 Hz. This specific frequency is often

Chickens are one of my favorite animals to have on the homestead. Even though they did drive me a little crazy this year as many of them went broody on me. They produce no chicks and just a bunch of disgusting

Now that the temperatures are dropping at my homestead, it is freeze-drying season! I couldn't let all of this fruit from my trees go to waste and freeze-drying is the perfect way to perserve them for

Having goats on my homestead for me was one of the best decisions I made. Not only do they provide high quality raw milk but they are just so much easier to manage compared to having a dairy cow. I also

Planting a garden is one of the most rewarding feats you will do! Imagine being able to enjoy food that YOU GREW! You took the time to plant it, water it, and then you get to get to enjoy the crop. I believe

Raw milk changed my life, so I will never stop advocating for it. Raw milk from a clean animal in a natural free-range environment, not a factory-farm, is how nature intended it. Pasteurization of milk

Food rations are a reality. We have been living with a false sense of security. The grocery stores have been full. There has been hardly any issues getting food staples like meat, sugar, eggs, and butter.

Why do chickens lay different colored eggs? Why are eggs different colors? Why do chickens lay green eggs? Why do chickens lay blue eggs? I get asked all of these, so I thought I would share why and the

A few months ago I decided to build and create two new hives. If you remember last year I only had two and one of them ended up dying out over the brutal cold winter I had. The other survived and ended

Have you ever read the ingredient lists of grocery store bread? They are loaded with preservatives because they need to sit on a shelf for weeks without going bad and other chemicals that have no business

I love that I can feed my chickens (most) food scraps! Did you know chickens actually live to eat meat? Any leftovers you won’t be eating? Plates of food your kids didn’t eat? Toss to the chickens! They

The goats have been doing great here on the homestead. In fact I now have six! I’ll include the other two which are billys in the next set of pictures I drop from the homestead. These four ladies have

The system we rely on - the grocery store down the road - is unreliable. The prices have even been held artificially low and we are starting to see the real prices as they creep up. So what do you do when

I choose to spend my time homesteading and learning skills so I can be prepared for a time when we need to be more self reliant. I don’t want to depend on the system. The system continues to fail so now

The garden and the orchard are in full bloom and it's simply BEAUTIFUL! On the homestead, I have been busy planting fruit trees! So far, I have planted 6 fruit trees (3 peach, 1 cherry, and 2 apple.) I

Planting a garden is one of the most rewarding feats you will do! Imagine being able to enjoy food that YOU GREW! You took the time to plant it, water it, and then you get to get to enjoy the crop. I believe

My great-grandparents homesteaded, built their house, and grew their food. My grandparents switched from growing a garden to using grocery stores. My parents knew no different. I am now learning to homestead.

When I wanted to start homesteading, I started where I was at which was in the city in a subdivision. I began sourcing my food local. I began growing my own food. I began making my food from scratch. I

Keep learning new skills. Think about the generational knowledge your great-grandparents or grandparents possessed and how they were self-sustaining. I know my great-grandparents didn’t rely on any grocery

If you remember I hatched my own chickens and even broke down and bought a few from the farm storm when visiting. You can watch my chicken hatch video right here on Hive via 3speak here Raising Chickens