You can’t stop looking at pictures of chickens, the sound of their cluck melts your heart, and you catch yourself daydreaming about cooking breakfast with freshly-gathered, blue and brown eggs. It is time for you to get some chickens! How do you get started? Do they sell
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Chickens bring so much happiness to our homestead. I could watch them scratch and pick in their yard all day. They clean up bugs and weeds and turn my kitchen scraps into beautiful eggs that nourish my family. We have been keeping chickens for about 10 years
Read more →Here is a video of me showing folks how to use a scythe to cut grass around my solar panels. A scythe is a simple tool from a time long ago. It is mainly used to cut grasses and create hay and fodder for animals. In my
Read more →Winter is here and with it, the cold. So far we’ve had some nights down in the low 30’s, and maybe even below freezing. Last year I did a post about my first winter, which you can read here. Since I do live off grid, there are
Read more →On November 2, 2013 we first talked about Paul’s Wofati and its permaculture design and building standards. But who is Paul? Paul Wheaton is a contemporary permaculture theorist, master gardener, software engineer, and disciple of natural agriculturist Sepp Holzer. Geoff Lawton has called Paul Wheaton “The Duke of Permaculture” for being
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