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Farm Eggs 101 & The Float Test
Whether you have chickens or buy farm eggs from your local farmer's market, you know that golden yolky goodness is hard to beat. Here's...
Dec 1, 20225 min read


Buying our Livestock Guardian Dog Puppy
This spring we bought our first Livestock Guardian Dog, a 13 week old Great Pyrenees puppy. In this blog, I share my favorite resources I...
May 20, 20216 min read


Choosing a Guardian for Our Goat Herd
If you have been following me, you know I LOVE my goats. Goats are wonderful for raising, milking, and clearing brush, but are not so...
Apr 26, 20214 min read


How to Build a Farm Fence | Step 4: How to Hang Gates (4/4)
Learn how to build a fence for your hobby farm with this step by step blog series. First step: plan the fence line. Second step: how to...
Feb 1, 20214 min read


How to Build a Farm Fence | Step 3: In-Line Posts & Stringing Wire (3/4)
T-posts, brace posts and netwire make up the bulk of your fence. After this step, you'll be able to see all the fruits of your hard work...
Jan 11, 20217 min read


How to Build a Farm Fence | Step 2: How to Build an H-brace (2/4)
H braces provide the strength and stability to keep your fence strong and in place. Learn how to build a fence for your hobby farm with...
Jan 4, 20218 min read


How to Build a Farm Fence | Step 1: Plan the Fence Line (1/4)
Building a farm fence is no small job, but important to any hobby farm for pastures and pens that keep animals safe. Learn how to build a...
Dec 2, 20207 min read


Harvesting Prickly Pear Cactus
Prickly pears are the vibrant pink fruit on cactus that are everywhere in the Texas hill country in the fall. Harvesting prickly pears...
Oct 2, 20202 min read


Keeping Chickens Cool in the Summer
Chickens don't love the heat and these Texas summers are brutal for them. They stop laying eggs and can even die of heat stroke. We have...
Jul 24, 20203 min read


Bottle Baby Goat Feeding Schedule
Baby goats are one of my favorite things on earth and having bottle babies for whatever reason is a fun, yet very time consuming, way to...
Jun 19, 20203 min read


How to Break a Broody Hen | Guest Post from Fresh Eggs Daily
A broody hen is essentially a hen that is sitting on her nest of eggs trying to hatch them. If you just have hens, and therefore no...
Jun 5, 20201 min read


Square Foot Garden Planning
Planning your garden can seem daunting, but as long as you are organized and plan so that nature can do its work, it is a pretty simple...
May 22, 20203 min read
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