Prices are rising. I’m not sure how much… Prices are definitely going up and the “official numbers” don’t show it accurately because they don’t measure the things I buy. Milk stayed about the same at the big store, but chicken food...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
There’s a woman I follow who fit two years of her trash in a jar. Two years! There’s another woman I found who goes around Manhattan to CVS stores rescuing things getting tossed as garbage–“almost” expired products, perfect or seasonal...
Covid shopping got you down? I wrote this in the beginning of Covid. We’re out and about now, but in some places shelves are still empty. I keep seeing posts about what people don’t have… no cream cheese? Dog food shortage? Chicken shelves empty?...
