Nutritional Value Of Tree Fodder For Livestock

Why buy grass from the store when the trees in your pasture are holding a winter’s worth of minerals for free? Tree hay was the backbone of ancestral

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Duckweed For Livestock Feed

The ‘mess’ on your pond surface contains more protein than the expensive soy you’re currently buying. Most farmers see duckweed as a drainage disaster, but it’s actually 40%

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Natural Goat Hoof Care: The Rocky Path Method

Stop wrestling your livestock every month when the ground beneath their feet could be doing the work for you. Hoof trimming doesn’t have to be a back-breaking chore.

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Feeding Christmas Trees To Goats: Natural Dewormer Secret

That $80 tree you are tossing on the curb is actually a high-potency winter medicine your herd is starving for. Stop paying for city waste pickup and start

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Buying Pullets Vs Hatching Your Own Chicks

Are you just a customer of the poultry industry, or have you mastered the art of hatching your own permanent food security? If you have to buy new

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Integrated Livestock Orchard Management

One farmer pays for gasoline to kill his grass; the other lets his sheep turn that grass into free fertilizer and high-end lamb. Your orchard grass is either

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Best Meat Bird Breeds For Self Sufficiency

We traded 5,000 years of survival instincts for a bird that can’t live past 8 weeks without a cooling fan. Fifty years ago, a chicken was a resilient

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Restoring Soil Health In Livestock Paddocks

If your pasture looks like a parking lot, your livestock are living on a biological desert. Most homesteaders think ‘dirt’ is just something for animals to stand on.

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Best Hog Breeds For Forest Foraging Homesteads

One of these pigs requires a climate-controlled barn and expensive soy; the other turns a forest floor into the world’s most expensive bacon. We traded 500 years of

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How To Use Autumn Leaves For Livestock Bedding

You are spending a fortune on wood chips every year while the trees are dropping a superior resource on your lawn for free. Most homesteaders throw away their

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Professional Livestock Handling System Designs

Four hours of chasing versus ten minutes of flow – the difference is in the geometry of your gates. If ‘working the cows’ involves a triple-digit heart rate

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Raising Chickens On A Small Suburban Lawn

Your lawn is a biological desert, but it could be the high-protein foundation of your family’s breakfast. We spend billions as a society to keep our ‘urban deserts’

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Using Donkeys For Livestock Protection And Draft Work

A fence just stands there and rusts, but this animal protects your flock, hauls your water, and clears your brush for the price of grass. Why pay for

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Medicinal Pasture Plants For Livestock

Your livestock are craving the very ‘weeds’ you’ve been trying to spray out of your pasture. We were taught that a clean, grass-only field was the gold standard.

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Protecting Animals From Heat Exhaustion

Your metal shelter might actually be making your livestock hotter – here is the ‘living’ AC that costs nothing to run. Most homesteaders think a roof is enough,

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Natural Livestock Mineral Supplements Guide

Most homesteaders buy their minerals in a box, but the pros grow them in the soil. We’ve been told that a $20 salt block is all our animals

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Traditional Honey Extraction Vs Modern Centrifuge

The very machine used to ‘save’ your honey might be stripping away its most powerful healing properties. Modern centrifugal extractors are fast, but the high-velocity air and friction

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How To Catch A Wild Bee Swarm

Stop buying bees that weren’t built for your climate and start catching the ones that were. Commercial bees are bred in a lab and shipped across the country,

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How To Raise Pigs For Zero Dollars

Your local forest is hiding a high-protein feast that creates the world’s most expensive pork. Why are you paying for industrial soy when your oak trees are dropping

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Biological Fly Control With Poultry

Stop buying poison to do a job that your poultry would love to do for free. Chemical sprays are a never-ending subscription to a toxic shed. Integrating ‘clean-up’

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