Garden
Our first goal in becoming homesteaders was learning how to grow our own food and learn to live off the land and what the Good Lord provides for us. The first spring we lived in our new home we set up our garden and…
Animals
As new country folk who lived in the city all our lives; starting a homestead has been no small feat. Although we have big dreams of a big red barn filled with chickens, ducks, rabbits, sheep, goats, and a cow we are starting out…
How To
Homesteading and figuring out how to do and make things you’ve never done before go hand in hand. This page is dedicated to all the projects we put together and how we did them. Building a rabbit hutch How to DIY a 65 gallon…
Building a chicken coop
We are building our first chicken coop! When we were starting out we intended to colonize the rabbits and chickens together, but decided against it as rabbits can get sick, dirty with chicken poop, and the chickens might peck at the baby bunnies. In…
Bunnies, chicks, and 2 under 2! Are we crazy or what?!
Hey everyone, Just a quick update! Spring is right around the corner and so are baby bunnies! Fat Hattie and Gloria are due any day and showing signs of bunnies coming soon! Fat Hattie and her bunny ‘stache Both Gloria and Hatties previous litters…
What’s that smell? Reducing rabbit urine smell
Hello everyone, As you all know, it’s been a very cold winter in the upper midwest and we have our rabbits housed inside our basement garage. Rabbits come with lots of manure for your garden and urine. This works great for your garden but…