ByJen
My favorite farm to table cookbooks for real home cooks — organized by skill level and use case, with picks perfect for homesteaders and scratch cooking beginners.
ByJen
The English Shepherd is the original American farm dog — perfect for homesteads with kids and chickens. Here’s everything you need to know about this breed.
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Two ingredients. A mason jar you already own. Eight hours of patience. That’s all it takes to make real cultured buttermilk at home.
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The rule is 1 nesting box per 4–5 hens, with a minimum of 2 for any flock. Here’s what you need by flock size.
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I had a big jar of raw honey from our local beekeeper and a family that wanted chocolate chip cookies, so I did what seemed obvious — I just swapped the sugar for honey.
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Every year, the aronia bushes on my property produce more berries than I know what to do with. That’s actually why I started making syrup in the first place.
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The quick answer: pasteurized milk is safe out of the fridge for up to 2 hours. But if you’ve got raw milk from your own cow — or you’re wondering whether that jug on the counter is still usable — there’s a little more to it.
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Silkie chickens cost $4.50–$16.50 from a hatchery for day-old chicks, and up to $95 for a full-grown laying hen from a local seller.
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Every time I cook a bone-in ham for the holidays, I save that bone like it’s worth money — because honestly, it is.
ByJen
Yes, skunks will eat chickens — but what they’re really after is your eggs. An adult hen can put up a real fight, and skunks know it.
