In the state of Georgia it is illegal to sell eggs without first taking the Egg Candling Class. This class is offered free of charge to state residents by the Georgia Department of Agriculture. They hold

I can’t even remember how I came to my desire to homestead. It was only 4 years ago but for the life of me I have no idea the exact moment I discovered what homesteading was. I do know that I came to it

Dogs can be expensive and just like with kids there are a million different ways to raise, train and feed your furbabies. While, I can’t do anything about the vet bills there are a few ways we save money

I’ve never eaten a duck egg but we got ducks anyway. Most of the time homesteaders tell you to grow what you eat. Don’t try to raise something you don’t enjoy or can a bunch of vegetables you only eat

This is one of those not super exciting homestead projects unless…….. You’re like me! I am finding joy in every new homesteading task that comes our way. Saving seeds was a skill I was planning on acquiring

We have tomatoes!!!! (look at them! They're so cute!!) Our garden this year has been a struggle. The suspected reasons why our garden didn't do well: we're new to gardening, our soil is terrible and we

This is it the moment we've been waiting 3 years for! Our first egg 😊 There is nothing more satisfying than producing your own food. Sure we've been able to produce a few dozen cucumbers this year but

Sorry this post has taken so long to get up. I’m sure some of you were dying to know how we got through the storm. (kidding 😉 ) (this is the town 5 mins up the road from us right after the storm) The

( Source) We aren’t exactly what I would call in the ‘danger zone’. She could be hitting us though as a category 1 hurricane (rough estimate). Honestly, there is a ton of back and forth and weather services

One of the necessary evils of having indoor cats is kitty litter. Having 6 cats we’ve tried out pretty much every kind of litter under the sun. The traditional kind, pine, corn and walnut. I’m here to

Or what I call, being prepared for the future. Prepping gets a lot of flak from non-preppers. They think all preppers are doomsday fanatics sitting in their bunkers, turning a plastic bottle into a radiation

While waiting to start homesteading, we aspiring homesteaders are convinced we are going to have the best homestead ever! It’s not egotistical its reality. We all build homesteads that suit our individual

Now that the majority of the finishing touches are complete I wanted to share our Aviary with you guys! When we went to pick up Barry and Iris they were living in this odd mix of open, semi sheltered,

Ever since we moved to our property we have been plagued with bad situations. Most of these situations occurred because the previous owners of our house did not keep up with the maintenance or found cheap

It's been a while since my last week on the homestead post. I intended it to be a weekly update but we simply do not do enough on our mini homestead to warrant a weekly update. As things pick up and we

You may have heard other homesteaders mention some of their favorite educational books. Every time someone makes a recommendation I save the book in my amazon wishlist to look at another day. Now the list

I’m going to tell a story, it’s a long rambling story of our first animal mishap on the homestead. (Barry and Iris) Shortly after our ducklings were moved outside to their tractor we have to opportunity

Is you guys. Our Homestead Steemit Community. Sorry if I’m being cliché but it’s true! Our homestead will never be large and we will never have a ton of projects waiting on the table. We currently only

I’m here today to shed some light on something most homesteaders don’t talk about. Sure it’s more fun to share the eggs you pulled out of the coop this morning, the meal you made with the produce from

I assume that most beginner homesteaders are like us and have a list a mile long of skills they need and want to learn. One of mine was cooking meals over a wood fire. Not just when camping. Almost a year