Hatch Eggs at Home

You want to hatch your own eggs? Tired of buying hatchlings year after year? Learn how to have a happy

Super Simple Vanilla Extract

With vanilla prices on the rise, more and more people are finding ways to make their own vanilla extract. I

Learn All About Vanilla

Everyone has heard of vanilla, usually when it is called for in a baking recipe. What is vanilla exactly, where

Heirloom Vegetables for Beginners

A vegetable garden is just a vegetable garden, right?  For some that may be true, but others that are digging

Raising Ducks for Beginners

You have made it past the fuzzy duckling stage or added some adult ducks to your homestead. Now you need

Baby Duck Care for

There are many different poultry choices that can be raised on your homestead or hobby farm these days. If you

Know Your Hay Bale

HAY! What is it? Anyone that has grazing animals on their farm knows how important hay is.  A Hay Bale

Simple DIY Herb Garden

A few years ago, I found myself using more and more fresh herbs in the kitchen . When buying these

When Roosters Attack

Picture farm fresh eggs, cute hens pecking the yard while a beautiful rooster stands guard. The reality ends up with

Raising Baby Chicks For

Happy Spring! It's that time of year, when everyone is greeted by the Cheep! Cheep! of fuzzy irresistible baby chicks

10 Reasons, Why Ducks!

When you decide to build a country life, their will be others that don’t really get it. They will ask

What is a Nigerian

Growing up I always had large breed goats (Alpine, Lamanchas, Saanens etc.) on the family farm. I had never heard

Baby Goat Season Prep

Are You Ready for Baby Goat Season? On our farm springtime means it's kidding season (baby goat season) and time

What is a Broody

A Broody Hen is nature’s best egg incubator, she will sit for days waiting for her eggs to hatch (or

Baby Goat Care Timeline

Your baby goats have finally arrived! Now What? There are things that will need to be done after your baby

7 Meat Animals For

You have decided you are ready to add a meat animal that will provide you with quality homegrown meat. Which

What is a Wether

When searching for goats to bring home, you may notice that you can choose from a doe, buck or a

3 Ways to Store

It's Harvest Time! You started planning in December, worked hard and patiently waited all summer, now its time for your

10 Needs for Farmhouse

Living in an Old Farmhouse Living in a 150-year-old farmhouse with 3 dogs, 2 kids and a husband, I have

7 Farmhouse Living Truths

The idea of country living or the dream of owning a farm wouldn’t be the same without the stereotypical old

Waiting Out a Country

A Country Winter can be hard to endure when there are so many things that must be put on hold.

Bacon Wrapped Venison Jalapenos

These Bacon Wrapped Venison Jalapenos are an easy appetizer or main course that are great anytime of year.  If you

How to Start Building

Dreaming of Building a Country Life? When thinking of building your country life it's easy to see the finished picture.

How to Pick Your

Happy Fall! In Northern Michigan this means the leaves have started changing, you pick orchards and pumpkin patches are opening

How to Start Planning

My garden planning for the next year usually starts before my current garden has been harvested. Through out the season

3 Reasons You Need

If some form of country living is what you are looking for, the place to start is a garden.  I

How to Start Seeds

Transplants Depending on what zone you live in there may be some vegetables that you will need to be transplant

What is Your Garden

Traditionally a vegetable garden is a large plot where vegetables are planted in neat single rows. This traditional way of