Homesteading Community Highlights #6

Welcome back everyone!

It's been a while since we posted one of these, and several months since I've personally authored one. Many thanks to @jacobpeacock for picking up the slack while my life was a blur of work and sleep!

Since joining the OCD incubation program, membership here at the Homesteading community has more than doubled to over 500 subscribers! With this membership, we've seen significant growth in the content posted to the community. While this is a good thing, it means that there's a LOT of stuff to look back on over the last month, so for this post, I'm going to change up the format.

Building Projects

Building and repair projects are an inevitable part of any homesteading venture. The homesteaders in our community have been busy with all kinds of projects over the last month, here are a few of my favorites.

@blesinatinga shares some photos of a simple space for keeping a few bunnies in this short post:
@blesinatinga/my-bunny-ville

@justfavour talks to us a bit about making a broom from tree trimmings here:
@justfavour/one-of-the-numerous-benefits

@apanamamama shows us some adorable new baby chicks, and some photos of a beautiful new raised bed (I snagged a photo from this post for the top of this section!) in this short update:
@apanamamama/baby-chicks-scratching-in-new

@seunny shares a number of photos from a very serious window upgrade here:
@seunny/fixing-of-alluminum-windows-in-our-site

@mrprofessor shares with us some photos from the beginning of a new home project:
@mrprofessor/off-to-the-ranch-26-updates-or-construction-or-spring

@isdarmady put together a very detailed post about building a small hydroponic unit in this post:
@isdarmady/making-a-simple-hydroponic-installation-and-the-positive-impact-of-growing-vegetables-at-home-for-the-environment

@shopnilhasan shares a very crafty project for propagating and keeping some plants in plastic bottles:
@shopnilhasan/home-steading-money-plant-plantation-in-plastic-bottle-or-or-make-money-with-money-plant

Last, but never least, @astrizak shows us some improvements to a previous project in this update:
@astrizak/box-for-a-wood-burning-stove

Baby Animals

Baby animals are not only adorable, they are essential to maintaining livestock populations. There were many births in the homesteading community over the last month, below is a collection of some of the cutest!

@jhepong shares a detailed post about raising turkeys, including some adorable young turkey photos:
@jhepong/eng-esp-raising-turkeys-pabo

@gbosokaaka shares some pictures of beautiful baby quail in this short post:
@gbosokaaka/the-hatching-task

The photo for this section was taken from this post by @re-volutionlives, which has even more cute piglet pics:
@re-volutionlives/life-of-a-mother

@jmis101 shares some great pics of young broiler chickens in this post:
@jmis101/the-young-shall-grow-practical

@apanamamama shows off some more baby animals in this post welcoming a new calf:
@apanamamama/morning-surprise-baby-calf

For a strong finish, @gubbatv talks about the decisions that often come with new births on the farm, while showing off some twins in this video:
@gubbatv/hsrmslmf

Planting and Growing

A large part of homesteading is growing food. This section is dedicated to the first half of the life cycle of our fruits and vegetables.

@danlop shared some wonderful photos (including the one above!) of ground preparation, and the seedlings waiting to be planted:
@danlop/early-summer-planting--hybrid-superior-seeds

@ayomiku talks a bit about growing a cash crop in this post:
@ayomiku/the-latest-cashing-machine-in-agriculture

@ushieisrael1234 posts about the neverending chore of gardening... weeding, here:
@ushieisrael1234/removing-of-unwanted-weeds

@johnuko also shares about weeding in the garden, to help out grandma, in this post:
@johnuko/cleaning-my-grannys-garden-hive-114308

@peterale invites us to check out his experiment with growing yams in bags:
@peterale/yam-plant-how-another-dimension-of-growing-yam-in-sacs-look-like

@danokoroafor wrote us a great post about transplanting trees to more fertile ground:
@danokoroafor/my-palm-tree-transplanting-ordeal-why-i-had-to-move-my-palm-trees-with-tips

@aryblack180420 talks about the joys of growing crops that need little to no attention:
@aryblack180420/gambas-is-one-of-the

@justfavour shares with us again, this time about one of the many ways we suffer loss of our crops:
@justfavour/sad-news-had-a-little

To wrap up this section, @r7team shares some beautiful photos of some beautiful eggplants, grown from start to finish:
@r7team/continued-mini-garden-by-homesteading

Harvest, Cooking, and Storage

Unless your goal is just to post pictures of your gardens, there isn't much point to all that planting and growing unless you harvest, store, and consume the fruits of your labor! Here are some of my favorite posts in the last month about people doing those things.

@sholex94 shows off a wheelbarrow full of yams:
@sholex94/harvest-time-happy-time

@semarekha posted about growing and harvesting a wonderful crop of okra:
@semarekha/garden-fresh-okra-my-garden-update

@macro1997 talks about harvest durian fruit, which I had never heard of before, in this post:
@macro1997/harvesting-durian-fruit-this-year

Continuing with foods I'd never heard of before, @apunawu shares with us how to process bambara nuts:
@apunawu/turning-bambara-nut-to-food-moi-moi

@adedayoolumide shared a detailed post about a number of tree fruits, including many uses for papaya:
@adedayoolumide/the-useful-of-ripe-and

The photo for this section is from @monica-ene, who shares with us a detailed post about harvesting and drying peanuts:
@monica-ene/peanut-harvest-and-drying-process

@gubbatv joins us again, in this video about storing food in mylar bags:
@gubbatv/yhwabeju

@gabriel300491 shows us some pictures from the family bakery, and shares a bread recipe here:
@gabriel300491/home-baked-bread

@callmedan shows us that life doesn't have to give you lemons, you can grow and harvest your own, in this post:
@callmedan/my-lemon-produce-and-what

Saving the best for last, @goldenoakfarm shares a fabulous post about processing her celery harvest here:
@goldenoakfarm/processing-celery-october-28-2022-goldenoakfarm

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Because there are so many authors highlighted in this post, and because I would like to add some weight to the Community vote, I won't be setting beneficiaries for the rewards of this post, but will power up 100% of the payout to the Community account. If anyone feels that this is unreasonable, please let me know.

That wraps it up for this overdue highlights post. As always, I welcome any feedback in the comments below. I hope to see you all back for our next installment, and I hope fortune favors you in the meantime!