I’m not the only one taking a long time to complete my project…
Category: Homestead
The First Rule Of Asbestos: We Don’t Talk About Asbestos
Is it a waste to save time over money?
Farm & Ranch Living: The Christmas Goose
This is the (totally true) version of the story Farm & Ranch didn’t print.
Garden Destroyed: Time To Build A Better Mouse Trap
Desperate times call for desperate measures!
Harsh Heat Index Postpones The Honey Harvest… and other humidity problems
With a heat index of 115° beekeeping gets dangerous…
Week 2 Update: Straw-Bale Potatoes
I regret nothing!
How To Straw-Bale Garden On The Fly
There are three ways to straw bale garden…
How To Build Bee Hives At $0.02 On The Dollar
A Beekeeper can literally start with a hand saw and hammer and turn it into the American Dream.
A Lazy Guy’s Weekend On A Suburban Bee Farm
Do you have a list? If you are like me, there is so much that needs to be done, that when anything comes up, I just say, “put it on the list.”
How I Increased My Hives And Lost Weight
GAINS: 2 Rabbits and 5 more Hives LOSES: 1 Lazy Goose and 14.8lbs
Work And Adversity Are Not The Same Thing
I ran a search for adversity quotes and found a long list of people who think work is the same thing as adversity. That’s when I realized I was behaving like a little bitch.
My Determination is Tested When a Pipe Ruptures
I was so tired and sore as I walked back to the hole, that if I had any other option I would have taken it. Nonetheless, when you are the man of the house, failure is not an option. So I manned up and crawled back into the mud.
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In 2006 I bought 50 beehives. Life happened and I was forced to abandon the project. In March 2015 I began again with the 3 surviving hives. Now I am trying to move from a Novice Beekeeping with 3 hives to Professional Beekeeper with 300 hives and a fully functioning homestead. I really have no…
Valuable Knowledge I Gained Harvesting My First Goose
Let me start with how it all went down. I didn’t mean to name the geese but, like an earwig that burrows into your brain, the name Bruce the Goose was named in my mind, even if I didn’t say it out loud. I later named the other goose, Bradshaw after Nick “Goose” Bradshaw from…
Honey Homestead 