Homesteading Community

Advice?

Good morning everybody so recently purchased my property so that I can start my homestead journey, but I have run into some issues... I had plans to build a couple of enclosures towards the back of the property and include goats pigs chickens and several different types of poultry for my homestead… read more

Homesteading Shed Project

Looking for ideas on what to turn this soon-to-be empty shed into. Planning to re-insulate, and potentially add in plumbing and electricity lines down the road. Potential ideas I tossed around are some of the following ● Drying Area (veggies/meat) ● Processing Area (rabbit/chicken) ● Small bar… read more

Homesteading

I have a subscription to the homestead dot org emails and I was reading about a chicken that lived 18 mos without a head. Fact checked it on Google and it pans out. Wow it seems unimaginable.

Boil em, mash em, put em in a stew!

Cold weather in Wisconsin causing me to be greatful to my past self. ;)

New coop!

Its coming along nicely. When its done it will be a mobile tractor style coop we can move around the property!

That time of year!

Shiitake mushroom logs, snow cap variety. 🤤

Bees

1 month and the frames are almost full.

Post day!

Today we trimmed up some trees that we felled!

Another morning, another window to open & let the flies out

Die flies, die already. Come on winter and do your thing (edited)

Flirt

Snowflake

Snowflake 🥹the first beb from this years incubated chicks

Ladder in the bucket

It looks crazy, I know, but that ladder was absolutely solid because the bottom feet were against the wall of the bucket. You gotta do what you gotta do sometimes. (edited)

Soon, very soon

Hopefully I'll be homesteading in some way or form. Anyone else in the region that goes from South Central Oklahoma down to North Texas and back around over by Hot Springs Arkansas back towards South Central Oklahoma? That's pretty much my stopping grounds lol. It would be good to know people in… read more

My bebs 🥹

Silky, Feathers and sterling.

MORE NEW ARRIVALS!

Aaaaand we have MORE tiny babies! I'll post an image as a reply showing how EXTREMELY TINY these kittens are! #animals #homestead #homesteading #kittens

Lil kitty

It snowed on the property so I thought it fitting to make a snow kitty lol

Goat name!

Just traded one of my bucks for a pregnant pygmy goat! She's very bossy and head butt's any other goats that comes near her food. After a proper bath, detangler and some brushing she looks 1,000% better. I would greatly appreciate some name suggestions 😊 Thanks boo fam

My dream pets

Finally started my homesteading dream and got two Nigerian dwarf bucklings. I wake up every morning watching them play they bring so much joy to my family. Eventually we will get some females and probably breed them strictly for our land to be cleared. Next will be chickens, rabbits, pigs, turkeys… read more

New tractor mower!!!!!

I'm so excited to use this around the property!🥰 I want to paint it like this or with vintage bomber nose art!

First eggs ever found!

It's Easter egg hunts everyday here until we build a coop. However our chickens are happy and healthy. If you have a tiny bit of land I highly suggest trying to garden and at least having chickens they have many purposes.

Tired

Who else wants to pack up and just move? Off grid to another state and forget about life

Dog Yard Drain 2.0 I forgot to post the video last time LOL

Dog Yard Drain continues Got a lot of work done yesterday before a heavy rain last night. Now I have to build some pallet walkways and extend two branches of the drainage ditches. #homesteading #dogs #outdoors #talent #building

Sunset

I love it out here💚

ISO Homesteading woman

I can do any projects on the homestead, from basic handy work, carpentry, to solar and electrical, plumbing, etc. where’s my homestead woman?

Contentment

This is our first litter of Whitney Heelers! Australian Cattle Dog and Great Pyrenees cross. It was our mom's dream to create a more winter hearty Heeler cross but she never achieved her dream before she passed away. This is my GP Itty-Bitty and her first litter with my male Blue Heeler, Balto's… read more

Where is your dream house/cabin?

As the title says, if you had the money and the means, where would your dream plot of land be? Location, country? Offgrid? How would your house/cabin/hut be? Build it yourself or renovate an old place? Tell me all! 😁

Earthship

I’ve decided to finally begin undertaking my dream of building an off grid structure. Excited

Bottle Baby Bentley on the Mend!

Bentley is a Whitney Heeler, Half Australian Cattle Dog and half Great Pyrenees. Yesterday and last night was stressful beyond belief. Bentley was the only puppy to pull through of a group of 5 after they suffered fatal food poisoning. (I'll explain if someone asks, long story). Then yesterday he… read more

Who loves piglets!?

This guy, that's who!

I am beyond words

The difficulty of figuring out what this went to is insane

I got tired of NO LIGHT

I got sick and tired of no light in the living room like area. So I went searching through my salvage, found a neat lamp, spliced it onto a 3 prog extension cord (it was cut in multiple places already) and dug out one of my decorative logs I cut last year at our old place, and VIOLA! I have… read more

Dog Yard Drain continues

Got a lot of work done yesterday before a heavy rain last night. Now I have to build some pallet walkways and extend two branches of the drainage ditches. #homesteading #dogs #outdoors #talent #building

Wet weather creek

Cerberus loves the bottom of the property lol

Roosters... And the LITERAL crack of dawn...

It's 4:30 am and dawn is cracking and I have no less than THREE roosters having a crow off all perched on the roof of the chicken run... OY! let me sleep!!

:^(

My stove pipe rusted out 😞

Jack of trades LF communal homestead

I've spent my life preparing for off grid life. Just looking for some like minded souls to make the leap with eventually. If you have a place and need hands, I'm your man. Let's chat! I'll divulge you on the details of my knowledge.

Rainy spring days.

This is the now completed porch from my earlier post.