homestead

What would your dream farm be? If you had unlimited resources and all the time in the world (plus enough people to help with whatever size operation you wanted). Mine is the following. I'd like a holistic farm, actually more like a commune because I'd like enough land to house people for free...

Hello to all my fellow backyard Mamas (and Pa's too) I've been around the goating world for quite a while now. My herd is a small group of Registered Nigerian Dwarves, collected and retained over a decade of continually breeding for better characteristics in future generations. This little...

Is there a market for a small functioning-but-in-progress homestead in Texas? We are starting to steep the idea of relocating, but the improvements on our property are probably not the kind that appeal to general resident shoppers.

We bought our farm February 2010. Since then, we have added three kiddos (two of which, their first words was "moo.") We started with some Angus cows and a few finds with the best confirmation possible at market price to raise Show cattle. We've also added feeder pigs and we had Boer goats but...

Sorry if I did this before and you don't want to hear about me again, but here goes anyway since I don't remember doing it before! We have focused on home education and raising what we want and need for ourselves as much as possible in the past. Now that the kids are all grown but have not...

Is anyone going to this conference in Tennessee. I would have loved to go see everything and see some favorite YouTube personalities like Patara, Danny and Wanda, and many others. They are having all kinds of displays and demonstrations on homesteading interest.

Aloha! My name is Reggie, :frow:frow I live on the beautiful island of Hawai'i & I've been on the site for a few weeks now, and just haven't had the chance to sit down and type an introduction! (oops!) Since I'm partially new at this anything I can read is helpful and any advice is especially...

Hello!! Newbie here. Just decided we were going to start a homestead and embark in a new journey of acquiring some fainting goats and some chickens....to start off. Anyone have any good advice or pointers we'd be greatly appreciative. Decided the best thing to do was gather info before we take...

*******Warning: Thread may contain graphic pics of blood, innards, dead animals, etc., as we live on and work a homestead, on which this pup's job is integral. If this offends you, you might want to leave the thread now. ****** Thought I'd move my training of our 2.5 mo. old LGD pup over to a...