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Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Five
Here’s update number five in my Tillage Radish cover crop experiment. Winter is in full swing at the end of December. The radish foliage has pretty much died completely and the tubers are starting to rot although the bigger ones are … Continue reading
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Tagged chickens, country, country life, country living, country skills, cover crop, farm, farm animal, farm animals, garden, gardening, growing, homestead, homesteading, mini-farm, permaculture, tillage radish
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Pig Butchering Results
The results are in and so is the meat! This week we picked up our pork from the processor. We got a fairly good spread for the size of our pig, and all-in-all we are very pleased. He was on the … Continue reading
Posted in Farm Animals, General
Tagged butchering, carcass, country, country life, country living, country skills, family, farm, farm animal, farm animals, hanging weight, hog, hog butchering, homestead, lard, lard rendering, live weight, market weight, mini-farm, on the hoof, pig, pig butchering, pig processing, pig weight, render
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Hog Wrestling (a.k.a. Delivering Pig to Butcher)
This week we took the pig to the local processor to get butchered. What an ordeal it was. First some background: “Stripe” the pig was born in April, we bought him as a feeder pig in June and we’re butchering … Continue reading
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Tagged butchering, country, country life, country living, country skills, equipment, family, farm, farm animal, farm animals, hog, hog butchering, homestead, homesteading, mini-farm, pig
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Why Do We Homestead…
Is the central questioned posed in one of the main articles in the current issue of one of favorite magazines, “CountrySide & Small Stock Journal.” In this article, founder and editor emeritus J.D Belanger examines the progression of the definition … Continue reading
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Tagged country, country life, country living, family, family fun, farm animal, farm animals, food, gardening, homestead, homesteading, land, mini-farm, off the grid, the have more plan
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Comfrey: Great Source of Homegrown Food for Farm Animals
Within the midst of fall, the vegetation around our mini-farm makes its last burst of growth before winter comes on. Our comfrey is no exception. As I posted before, I love comfrey, and no homestead should be without it especially … Continue reading
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Tagged animal feed, chicken, comfrey, comfrey as feed, comfrey as food, comfrey leaves, country, country living, country skills, farm, farm animal, farm animals, feed ration, food protein, gardening, herb, homegrown animal feed, homestead, mini-farm, nutrient, permaculture, pig, protein, vitamin A, vitamin B-12, vitamin C
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