POSER HOMESTEAD
INFLATION BUSTING 101
Tariffs, Stagflation and The Price of Eggs Price are definitely going up again. Just when we thought we were at the new norm post Covid, we've got tariffs. In the post-Covid inflation, the "official numbers" weren't too bad, but I was suspicious. The official...
EMPTY SHELF COOKING (“No Fear” meals)
I went shopping right before the pandemic. Things looked good. There was bread and milk. Less than a week later, lines wrapped around the store and shelves were empty. People rushed the fork lift guy for water. They cleaned out the toilet paper aisle--then bought junk...
EXTRA EGGS? HERE’S WHAT TO DO
What to Do with Your 10M Eggs Egg overdose is not just for Easter. It's a very real thing on a homestead. Many homesteaders--even poser homesteaders fall victim to "chicken math" whereby you think chickens are cute and you get too many even though you only planned to...
BUY HALF A COW
With pink slime, mad cow, salmonella, and other industrial food supply contaminants, it's hard finding good beef. You have two choices--source your meat correctly or raise it yourself. If you're a real homestead, you're probably already raising your meat this. But if...
FIVE PESTS THAT MUST GO
War on homestead invaders... Ever fight an urban squirrel? It's not pretty. I like squirrels, but there are some creatures that need to go. I wasn't happy when they took one bite of every tomato, then left it to rot, but when they ate my house, that was it. That was...
YOUR PANTRY IS YOUR BEST FRIEND
"Is it cheaper to cook or eat out?" This is the debate of the week on X. There's a camp doubling down on cooking being more expensive than eating out all the time, and I can't see the math--even with one person assessing an hourly rate to home chefs' time,...
SHOULD I GET CHICKENS?
"I need help from a chicken guru." I got a question from someone who wanted to started a flock. I'm not a guru. I'm not even a real farmer. But, I've had chickens for eight years, and most survived. If I calculate chicken survival rates as baseball percentage, I'm...
BLUEBERRY CORN MUFFINS
This is my original recipe. I started with a master recipe in a cookbook, but changed it over the years. The corn flour and yogurt make this a much better muffin than using 100% flour. [recipe title="Blueberry Corn Muffins" servings="8-12" time="10 mins prep, 25...
FREE YOGURT FOR LIFE
You can make your own yogurt for pennies--and you should. Yogurt making isn't that hard at all. You don't even need a yogurt maker if you choose the right kind of yogurt. I hate paying two bucks for over-sweetened yogurt that tastes like guar gum. I also hate getting...