In the past few months I’ve been traveling a bunch and in my absence the yard has gotten away from me. I hate weeding. It sucks and is a battle you can never win. The one upside however is that I really enjoy feeding weeds to my animals. They enjoy it, it’s nutritious, and it…
Author: SustainableCraig
I am a military veteran, urban farmer, and former financial coach likes building things and learning new skills.
Dream Big, Work Smart – We Got Our Farm
Up until this point I’ve felt rather constricted as to what I could do on my property. Being an Urban Farmer kinda blows… space is at a premium, you always have to tread lightly so the neighbors don’t bitch about what you’re doing, and it is difficult to store useful materials without looking like you…
Learning Primitive Skills
I want to be able to thrive regardless of the situation I am in or what gear I have with me. For that reason I have been learning primitive skills. My region of the U.S. is said to be due for a large scale earthquake similar to the recent quakes in Haiti and Japan. If it…
My Experience at The Human Path
I just spent the last 2 weeks at The Human Path in San Antonio, Texas with former Army Special Forces medic Sam Coffman and his wife Suchil Coffman who is an expert in a variety of homesteading skills. I have taken a lot of courses in my local area and wanted to get training from…
Expanding the Rabbit Breeding Operation
Up until this point we haven’t harvested any rabbits yet. I’ve been trying to build up breeding stock to be able to keep a steady supply of rabbit meat and these things take time. Both does just had kits. I bred one of my does to my friends New Zealand White named Plower and bred…
Cloning Plants in My Kitchen
On 3/27/2014 I began a plant cloning experiment. I purchased a kit from Carol Stiff who runs http://www.kitchenculturekit.com/ Carol spoke briefly during one of my Master Gardener classes about the benefits of cloning plants and I was intrigued. I am attempting to clone a variety of my more exotic indoor plants/trees as well as some…
Vantucky Fried Chicken – Raising Pasteured Poultry Meat Chickens
I recently read You Can Farm by Joel Salatin (http://amzn.to/1mwMEIi) and wanted to experiment with raising chickens exclusively for meat (I already have egg-laying hens). I purchased 12 Cornish Rock Broilers on February 28th, 2014 from the local farm store and put them in a brooding bin. The birds are now one month old and…
Using a Fodder System to Feed Chickens and Rabbits
While we supplement their diet with our leftover food scraps, the animals at the farm still eat a lot of store bought feed. In an attempt to become more sustainable and save money, I’ve been experimenting with a fodder system (which is basically another way of saying sprouting wheat seeds). Sprouts are supposed to be…
We Are Officially Goat Owners
Julie had been researching Kiko goats for a while now and finally wanted to start our own breeding operation. She took all of the initiative on this project while I took the backseat role. She lined up our first goat purchase months ago and now that the weather cleared up we could get up…
Our Initial Attempt to Purchase Land for a Permaculture Farm
This past weekend, the lady and I were out in rural Washington scouting some properties we had found online. We were so excited that our dream was so close to becoming reality! Unfortunately there were some major obstacles with the property. Water access in the area was limited to drilling a well into the side…
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