How To Prevent Your Beehive from Bee-ing Robbed
Bees are industrious little workers and amazing little creatures. They are efficient and busy. Sometimes they’ll decide it’s more efficient to find a smaller nearby hive and rob the already made honey...
View ArticleHow to Capture a Swarm of Bees
Around our area swarm season has started. Swarms of bees that is. Each spring as hives grow in number they tend to split off groups and send them out to find new homes. it can happen from a beekeepers...
View ArticleWhy Meat Rabbits?
Guest post by Jesse and Stacey of Red Eye Rabbitry. About 3 years ago my wife and I started our little farm with chickens and a couple of ducks. We loved the fresh eggs, but as a homesteader we wanted...
View ArticleHow to Get Ready for New Chicks
With the idea of having backyard chickens becoming more and more popular, you may want to start with chicks. Here’s a guest post from The Homesteading Hippy on how to get ready for them: Getting ready...
View ArticleThe Blessings of Baby Goats
It was such an amazing God thing!! We were blessed with the most delightful, simplest, easiest (for us anyhow- Sweetheart may not agree) birthing experience with our new baby...
View ArticleNutritional and Herbal Remedies for Rabbits
We’ve been raising rabbits for just over a year now and our approach is as natural as possible with them. We shoot for herbs/nutritional approaches first and go from there if we have to. Here is a list...
View ArticleFiltering Beeswax
In connection with my last post about making beeswax candles, I though y’all might enjoy a visit with me as I filter more wax… I laughed as I took these pictures knowing there would be those who...
View ArticleBeeswax Candles- Version 1 (Super Simple Oven Option)
I REALLY love candles- really, really love them, I would light a whole room with them year round if I could get away with it. I love the smell of them, the flattering light they give, the warm cozy...
View ArticleVisit to the Goat Farm
Bucky (not sure of his real name) saying “good-bye”… We got to make a fun trip to the “goat farm” (as my kids call it). Precious and Sweetheart (yes, their real names) had spent their time with the...
View ArticleKids and kids (both kinds)
Well, it’s that time of the year… The little goats were ready to go on a trip to visit the buck… Since our transportation is a suburban- they got to go in comfort and style! They of course wanted to...
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