We have long wanted to add pigs to our homestead and pork to our meat supply. We’ve done a couple of turns at keeping some local wild hogs given to us but it was all spur of the moment and done in a more confined space than we were hoping our long-term solution would be….
It is a rare occurrence that I am out in the (very rundown) pasture at the same time as the children but it just so happened I was there a couple of weeks ago to capture something I didn’t even know was happening. I was out there helping Stewart and happened to have my camera…
One thing you find out quick when building a homestead is that you don’t just snap your fingers and suddenly have an influx of homegrown food. It takes time… often, or at least in our case, a lot of time. And because some years there are garden bounty and some years not so much, we…
One of our very favorite meals has always been a simple roast chicken. When we lived up north, we used to purchase a fresh pastured chicken weekly for our little family of four. That chicken stretched for several meals and made one of my very favorite foods: chicken broth. Times have changed quite a bit…
