Homestead Basics

This was kind of cool to see. Guy moves a ton of bees into a new behive.

New behive that my brother (jwalk1014) built. We installed 5 of these April 24th 2010. 5×18000 bees, only 2 bee stings between the 2 of us. Should have honey next year!

John Cassidy takes us through the basic points of building an urban flock. Stop by Hollygrove Market and Farm on Satruday’s from 10-2 to visit the chickens and get a box of food.

Don’t know what youtube has changed in the uploading process but this is the SIXTH try in uploading this video. Been at it for nearly a full DAY…… Part 1 of our new series on raising rabbits looks at equipment needed for rabbit raising as well as helpful hints in getting started. This series has [...]

Our first mobile chicken coop, easy to move and safe for the animals, please let us know what you think, thank you Keeping hens in your own backyard is easy with the mobile chicken coop, Roll-a-coop rotates slowly allowing new pasture to be accessed and leaving waste behind, Animals stay more active and more productive, [...]

I thought this was a nifty product for urban homesteaders. The Eglu is an easy to setup chicken coop that can house 4 medium sized chickens or 6 bantams. The eglu features Twin wall insulation, draft free ventilation, perching bars, a nesting box, and plenty of trays that make it easy to clean and easy to collect eggs. Choose from 5 colors of 100% recycled plastic.

Heather Marie spotted this beautiful little fawn right outside our covered porch on the side of the house. It couldnt have been more than 30 yards from the house. She grabbed the camera and smapped a few.

Well, we got the chickens in. We started feeding them poultry feed from our local feed supply store. They have been in to 2-3 days and have all gotten used to roosting in the coop.

Preparing the chicken coop.