Have you heard of fibromyalgia before? My mother was diagnosed with it last year, but I know a couple of other people who have it. I had fibromyalgia on my radar, but my first personal glimpse into the disease came with my mother’s diagnosis. My mother and I are very close, and this disease doesn’t [Continue]
I can’t tell you how hard it was to find a chicken tractor that was easy to build for my laying hens. Actually, it was too hard. An easy chicken tractor for laying hens eluded me for so long, I decided to design my own. I needed a chicken tractor solid enough to keep predators [Continue]
If you want to orchestrate a garden that satisfies a certain percentage of your family’s produce needs, you need to get used to the idea of garden planning. Gardening was my gateway drug into this homesteading lifestyle, and I will always count it as a necessary (and enjoyable) part of my backyard farming life. Today, [Continue]
