I can’t say enough good things about growing walnut trees. As a hardwood, they provide great value to your property. They cool you in summer as a dignified shade tree and warm you up in the winter as ...
How to Diagnose and Treat Crop Ailments in Chickens
We all want to raise happy and healthy chickens, don’t we? However, if you’ve been keeping chickens for a while, you know it’s not always easy to keep your flock healthy. Parasites, diseases, and crop ...
Growing Chayotes: Best Varieties, Planting Guide, Care, Problems and Harvest
Ever run into chayote at the grocery store and wondered what the heck it was? Botanically it's a fruit, but it's treated and prepared like a vegetable. It has a wonderfully mild flavor and is ...
22 Practical Hedges for the Homestead That Add More Value Than Just Beauty
Hedges have been grown for at least 6000 years. In fact, the earliest hedges were probably used on farms and homesteads. They were originally implemented to mark property lines, confine animals, ...
Cayuga Duck: Shiny Green Beauties Laying Dark Colored Eggs
In the chicken keeping world, chicken keepers often enjoy expanding their flock for rainbow egg baskets. Who says duck keepers can’t have some fun too? When a Cayuga duck starts laying eggs, the shade ...
How to Humanely Stop Birds from Stealing Seeds and Seedlings in Your Garden
Birds are marvelous animals to have around our homesteads. They're beautiful to look at, sing entertaining songs, and eat bad bugs. However, sometimes birds can be pests when they eat the seeds that ...
How to Hand Pollinate Plants to Increase Your Harvest
Are you having trouble with your plants bearing fruit? If it seems as if the flowers bloom but then curl up and fall off of the plant, then you might have a need to learn how to hand pollinate your ...
Growing Komatsuna: Best Varieties, Planting Guide, Care, Problems and Harvest
If you grow leafy greens in your vegetable garden but haven't tried growing komatsuna, you're missing out on a wonderful variety of brassica. Komatsuna, also known as Japanese mustard, is totally ...
How Many Chickens Should You Raise for Eggs
Choosing to get started with a flock of chickens is an exciting decision that will require many follow-up decisions as you figure out the logistics of your impending flock. One of the first ...