How do you Keep Coyotes Away?
I love getting questions from you! If you ever have a question about our homestead, our life, or how we do things around here please don’t hesitate to email me. I read them all and love to hear from...
View ArticleIs Anything 100% Grass-Fed?
** NOTE: Thank you to all the folks who have sent me info on the specifications of “grass-fed” animals. The guidelines for “grass-fed” seem to have an evolving definition. It appears that some other...
View ArticleEarly Milking
Milking time! Have I mentioned how much flexibility you can have when you keep your calf with your milk-cow? It is a glorious situation. It is quite simple. When your cow calves, keep the calf. In...
View ArticleBuying Healthy Eggs
Between the low egg production due to winter (we don’t have a light in our coop) and the egg-eating opossum, I have invading my coop. I have found myself standing in front of the egg section of the...
View ArticleCan You Eat a Potbelly Pig?
Please don’t get mad at me for suggesting that you should eat your potbelly pig. I am not suggesting that at all. There was a conversation on my Facebook page that inspired this post. I know there are...
View ArticleShould You Buy Livestock from Sale Barns?
People have some STRONG feelings about sale barns. I have a dear friend who won’t touch them with a 10 foot pole. She wouldn’t buy an animal from a sale barn if it was the last cow on earth. Never....
View ArticleKeeping Pigs in Winter
I’ve decided that pigs are indestructible. At least, the 4 that lived through “Snowmageddon” we had here in Kentucky are…. I am learning so much. This is my first winter with pigs and it has been...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know About Keeping Ducks – QUACK!
Spring is almost here. Baby poultry are showing up in farm stores everywhere. If you love chickens, you may love ducks too. Ducklings are just like baby chicks except they are ducks. If you decide...
View ArticleRabbit Attack
I want to thank everyone who reached out on Facebook this week with love, prayers, advice and even offering to give us new bunnies. You guys are amazing. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Well, I am...
View ArticleHow and Why to Use Rotational Grazing
Rotational Grazing is not just for cows. Rotational Grazing is the practice of dividing land into smaller pastures and moving (rotating) animals on and off of fields (or pastures or runs). It can be...
View ArticleNo, You Can’t Strain Milk with a Coffee Filter – in Case You were Wondering
No, You Can’t Strain Milk with a Coffee Filter. Ugh. Ugh and ugh again. I have the most fabulous milk strainer. It is from Lehmans’s and it is wonderful. It fits in a small mouth jar. It fits in a...
View ArticleWhy Snow is Good for Your Garden
It snowed! Here in Kentucky, we never know if we’re going to get “white stuff” or not. Sometimes we can go through a winter without any accumulation to speak of. Sometimes things never get a good...
View ArticleThefarmbarbie Top Posts from 2015
It seems that many of my favorite blogs are doing some sort of “top posts for 2015” lists. I have always found the top 10 posts to be some of the most helpful, interesting and beneficial articles....
View ArticleFight Cancer With Food – What is CLA & How to Eat it
CLA was discovered in 1987 when scientists found it was able to fight cancer in mice. It’s true. CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) is a miracle food. Here is an excerpt from canceractive.com: Conjugated...
View ArticleRead This Before Buying Your Daughter a Ferret
I’ve decided that Ferrets should come with a warning. Our 11 year old daughter has wanted a ferret for years. She has stuffed ferrets. She watches ferret shows and movies. She has read every book on...
View Article6 Reasons to Go to the Sale Barn & 1 Reason Not to
If you live in a rural area, there is a chance that a local Livestock Auction is happening near you. Livestock Auctions (also called “sale barns”) are places where livestock producers and buyers come...
View ArticleA Peep Behind the Scenes – Spring at the Farm
Things are starting to happen around here. I can not put into words how much I adore this time of year. Everything is resurrecting from the dead. Even me. I go into hibernation, build fires, eat...
View ArticleBaby Bunnies!!!!
If you have been to my Instagram, Facebook or Twitter accounts today – You already know that we had some baby bunnies join our homestead earlier today. Our Doe pulled out all her fur and pooped out 8...
View ArticleHare Today Gone Tomorrow
Well. If hearing me talk about dead, baby bunnies is going to make you sad, you may want to skip this post. We didn’t have much of a chance to get attached, and life on a farm is filled with death,...
View ArticleBring a Field back to Life in 4 Simple Steps – How to Fix a Pasture, run or...
If I had to pick a couple of things we are really good at I would say: Clearing land Fixing Fields OK, maybe we aren’t “really” good at them – It just seems like these are 2 never-ending chores at our...
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