Homesteading

I have been dreaming about making my own homemade apple cider from a cider press for many years. This year my dream finally came true! It was a lot harder work than I expected, but making apple cider with a cider press was a great success. We decided to try to learn how to make hard…

I have been wanting to learn how to make cider for a long time. I still have fond memories of making apple cider with my grandparents on their farm when I was a kid. Every year they would pick up all the apples that had fallen on the ground at their small apple orchard and…

We have been having fun raising chickens for the first time this year. We bought two different batches of chicks and watched them grow into entertaining young chickens. Our first batch of chickens didn’t try to fly much, but several in our second batch sure did so we needed to find a way to keep…

Now that it’s summertime and everything is blooming, you might see some striped insects buzzing around your garden. But while yellowjackets may not be a welcome sight, honey bees should be. That’s because their presence is actually essential for our own survival.   Did you know that we can thank bees for one out of…

If you are new to raising baby chickens, there’s a lot to learn, and most of the things you need to know you don’t even know that you need to know until it happens. Having a baby chicken with a pasty butt is one of the things you have to learn very quickly the hard…