POSER HOMESTEAD
Egg Overdose: What to Eat When You Have Too Many Chickens
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...
Love Beef? 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 Creatures to Evict from Your Homestead
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...
Fall In Love With Your Pantry (Never Run Out of Toilet Paper Again)
For $2999 I can get an entire year's worth of freeze-dried "desserts," powdered drinks, and... things I'd never eat because I'm not an astronaut. None of the marketing mentions taste--it's all about "price per calorie." There are 30-year tubs that'll last longer than...
Everyone’s Getting Chickens… Should I?
"I need help from a chicken guru," It was a friend planning for chickens. I've keep 63% of my of chickens alive over the past six years. I don't know if that's "guru" status in the homesteading world, but if I calculate that as a baseball percentage, I'm batting at...
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...
A Lifetime Supply of Free Yogurt
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...
Swiss Chard and Mushrooms
I'm buried in Swiss Chard. It's time to eat some greens! I love this, which is good because I'm going to be eating it for the rest of the summer. INGREDIENTS Swiss chard...
Building a Greenhouse from Salvage (maybe!)
said, "I'd like a greenhouse." I also picked up some windows I could use to build one. "When are you building the greenhouse?" I didn't really mean to build one, I just noted it would be nice to have one. I've had three before--they were all kits...