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Blown Eggs for Easter

March 27, 2020 by Homestead Lady 3 Comments

Learn how to make your own blown eggs for Easter so you can use them all season for decorating and crafting. This DIY tutorial takes you from egg to ornament with suggestions for decorating and making ornaments. This is an Easter and spring craft for kids and adults alike! Easter egg decoration
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Filed Under: The Hearth Tagged With: Family Time, Festive, Green Living, Homemade, Homestead Craft, Kids in the Kitchen, Kids on the Homestead, Make it Yourself, Poultry, Traditions

Homestead Dogs: Do You Need a Livestock Guard Dog

March 18, 2020 by Homestead Lady Leave a Comment

Are you wondering if you need a livestock guard dog on your property? If you need homestead dogs, what are the best breeds for you to consider? Do you know what you need a dog to do on your homestead? Before you purchase a homestead dog, we invite you to consider the following points. great pyrenees dog

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Filed Under: Critters Tagged With: Alpacas, Goats, Homestead Question, Poultry

Backyard Chickens for Beginners

November 8, 2019 by Homestead Lady Leave a Comment

This article is titled “Backyard Chickens for Beginners” for a reason. We hope to help you make decisions about chicken feed, chicken coops, keeping chickens in winter and a few other housekeeping items. Even at a beginner’s level, you can learn quality techniques for keeping a happy, healthy flock.

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Filed Under: Critters Tagged With: Grow Your Own, Homestead Question, Natural, Poultry

Canned Meat: Homestead Chicken

December 29, 2016 by Homestead Lady 2 Comments

  Join us as we go through the steps of canned meat, specifically fresh chicken. From growing, to butchering, to pressure canning you can do this! Keep this low carb, gluten free, healthy dinner food on hand all year round. …

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Filed Under: Critters Tagged With: Grow Your Own, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homestead Question, Make it Yourself, Natural, Poultry, Preserve

Why Ducks Might Be Right For You

August 13, 2016 by Homestead Lady Leave a Comment

Do you remember our popular, if controversial article, “Why Ducks Might Not Be Right For You”? Well, here is its sister post, “Why Ducks Might Be Right For You”! Come learn all about the useful and remarkable duck, and decide if some just might be right for your homestead. Are Ducks Right For Your Homestead l The ins and out and pros of ducks l Homestead Lady.com…

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Filed Under: Critters Tagged With: Book Review, Green Living, Homestead Question, Poultry

The Do It Yourself Homestead

June 29, 2016 by Homestead Lady 6 Comments

The Do It Yourself Homestead is your homesteading manual. Do you lie awake at night, wondering how to make your family more self-sufficient in an uncertain world? Are you fearful and wondering how you are going to make it through to your homesteading dreams with your current finances? Are you wanting to gather your family together, as opposed to watching them drift apart, distracted by the siren call of the modern lifestyle? Are you wanting to feel more prepared for any eventuality so that you no longer experience fear when reading the newspaper? Are you wondering how to expand your homesteading efforts while still maintaining the rest of your life?

Maybe you’ve considered homesteading, but you’re stuck in an apartment, and don’t even know where to begin.

Never fear, The Do It Yourself Homestead is here!

The Do It Yourself Homestead l The book of self sufficient living l Helps you homestead wherever you are l Homestead Lady (.com)
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Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, Family Time, Ferments, Festive, Green Living, Grow Your Own, Health, Herbs, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homemade, Kids on the Homestead, Make it Yourself, Medicinal Food, Off Grid, Poultry, Traditions

Homesteading Books: Beginning Basics

March 2, 2016 by Homestead Lady 4 Comments

Homesteading Books for Beginners Recommendations l Homestead Lady (.com)Ready to start homesteading but don’t know where to begin? Are you a city kid like me and have to learn all your homesteading skills from scratch? I am genuinely excited to share these homesteading titles with you as you begin your journey towards self-sufficiency. Books are among my greatest, most effective homestead mentors. Even after homesteading for a number of years, I’m still collecting great books….

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Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, Community, Green Living, Grow Your Own, Health, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homemade, Homestead Question, Kids on the Homestead, Natural, Off Grid, Poultry, Preserve

3 Non-Lethal Ways to Protect Your Livestock from Predators

February 24, 2016 by Homestead Lady 4 Comments

Three Non Lethal Ways to Protect You Livestock From Predators l Homestead Lady (.com)Losing your livestock to predators is expensive, frustrating, and flat out heartbreaking — and protecting them isn’t always the easiest of tasks. While you may be tempted to break out your shotgun, there are numerous non-lethal steps you can take to keep your animals safe. Join us for this guest post!…

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Filed Under: Critters Tagged With: Goats, Homestead Question, Poultry

Chickens for Sale – Help!

June 15, 2015 by Homestead Lady 2 Comments

Chickens for Sale l Help l Be ready for backyard chickens l Homestead LadyYou can’t help yourself anymore – the signs are everywhere! You keep checking out chicken books from the library and reading them instead of sleeping at night. Instead of picking out curtain colors, you’re dreaming of feather colors and deciding on backyard chicken breeds. Your spouse keeps trying to engage you in conversation but your eyes wander to the shed as you wonder if it could be converted to a chicken coop. You set out for the grocery store, but end up at the feed store, standing helplessly in front of the chick cages, paralyzed by their cuteness. What are you going to do? How can you be sure you’re ready. Fear not, grasshopper, if you keep seeing signs that say, “Chickens for Sale”, we’re here to help you be prepared for the inevitable. You WILL end up with a shipment of chicks in your backyard and we’re here to help you be ready….

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Solar Oven Recipe: Budget Chicken Dinner

June 10, 2015 by Homestead Lady 4 Comments

Solar Oven Recipe Budget Chicken Dinner l One pot meal in a solar oven l Homestead Lady.comSo, this month we’re celebrating National Preparedness month and we’re going to share a few of the off-grid cooking methods we’ve been practicing this summer. I am NOT an expert in this DIY stuff, just so ya know! Growing up, I went “camping” every year with my family but we always went to a KOA Kampground…at the beach. So, does that actually count? Anyway, one of my favorite off grid cooking options is definitely my solar oven. So, here we are sharing an easy, peasy solar oven recipe: Budget Chicken Dinner. …

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Filed Under: Prepared Tagged With: Green Living, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homemade, Off Grid, Outdoor Cooking, Poultry

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