Electric chicken fence saved our hens from a pack of coyotes!
Poultry Net Electric Fence saved the day! Right in the middle of writing this blog post the same gray coyote had the nerve to show up right behind the new fence we had just installed. I am not a very good shot and hubby would have gotten it, but he wanted to take a...
Beekeeping for Beginners
Beekeeping for Beginners – One small hive can keep your family in honey all year. Beginner Beekeeping Supply List There’s not any other project on our homestead that has given us as much satisfaction as our beehives. We easily pull over 30 pounds of honey...
All Natural DIY Fly Spray – For Livestock
Homemade Fly Spray Recipe Flies… Flies…. and more Flies! You know it’s summer when the flies start outweighing you! I’ve tried a few different fly sprays over the years and was shocked at the list of ingredients they are loaded with. ...
All Natural Fertilizer Alpaca Bean Tea
Spring is here and our growing season has started. Seeds are popping up everywhere and it is time to nurture them along with a healthy all-natural fertilizer. Are you looking for a way to give your young seedlings a burst without relying on harmful chemical...
How to Get Your Chickens to Roost Up
I have had a lot of questions lately about our free ranging chickens and how we keep them safe from predators. Learning how to get your chickens to roost up at night can be a challenge, but we found an easy way to teach them to come back to the coop. I do admit that...
Hidden away in the Upstate of South Carolina is a little farm where we call home. Surrounded by century-old pecan and oak trees, we live on a 120-year-old homestead. By the grace of God, we were called to restore this 1890 farmhouse along with its barns, gardens and long-forgotten cotton field to its original working farm. Dedicating ourselves to reusing, recycling and making do we are living a very simple life building our backyard farm.