While there are many different types of companion plantings, the three-sisters planting method is one that has been used for centuries by the Iroquois (a Northeast Native American tribal group). ...
How to Hatch Chicken Eggs and Take Care of the Chicks After
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Let's take a simplified view: If you are a new owner of backyard chickens, you would declare that you bought your chickens first, and now you are waiting ...
Eggs and Meat Productions: What You Need to Know as a Chicken Owner
As a new chicken owner, you may be all excited to collect eggs from your flock, and you are all set to feed them well so you could enjoy healthy, hormone-free meat in turn. We take it that you have ...
Everything You Must Know About Keeping Your Chickens Alive and Healthy
As a new chicken owner, you should know how to house them while keeping them healthy, safe, and sound from predators and pests. You might have to be on your toes and be on the watch many hours of the ...
Feeding Chickens: How-To, Common Problems, Cutting Costs, What NOT to Feed, and More
People experienced in raising chickens always recommend having everything in place before the arrival of your birds. By now you may have decided to raise chickens and have built your coop and run. ...
Housing Your Chickens: All You Need to Know to Do It Properly
So you have made the excellent decision to get chickens. You have done your homework and first found out whether you may keep chickens in your backyard. Then you did your research to determine what ...
How to Go about Choosing the Perfect Chicken Breeds for You
Are you ready to buy fluffy chickens and fill your backyard with the much-awaited joy? Following up on our previous post - Do you have what it takes to raise chickens in your backyard - we believe ...
Do You Have What It Takes to Raise Chickens in Your Backyard?
Before heading out on the journey of raising backyard chickens, it’s important to ask the right question and that is: Are you allowed to raise chickens in your area? According to some people, ...
How Do We Define Local Food and Why Is It Important for Homesteaders?
For a homesteader, purchasing groceries could mean a simple step into their garden or, in the winter months, their pantry filled with fruits and vegetables that were canned in the warmer ...