A quick one, it’s been a hectic week, I even missed posting yesterday, sorry! Today is Good Friday (as if they make a BAD Friday…). That means Easter is a couple days away. And while I don’t go to church, I know that the proper way to celebrate the resurrection of Christ is to decorate […]
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Urbanstead Update March 2013
It’s been a while so I thought I’d update whats going on in my urban backyard “farm”. I like to write these out from time to time to show you what I’ve accomplished, as well as to track where I’ve been. My memory isn’t what it used to be, so this works well as a […]
animals, cooking, equipment, food preservation, how-to, meat, Paleo, projects, rabbits, recipes, self sufficiency, skills
Rabbit Jerky
I love my rabbits. They offer me therapy, handling them and working with them each day is soothing to me. They offer me some of the best manure I can find for my gardens, allowing me to make my great soil in my raised beds even better. And of course, they provide wholesome meat for […]
A Visit at Bogle’s Bunny Farm
For the last few months, I have been getting grief from RidgeRunner about the rabbit hides I give him. Grief might be a strong term. Let’s just say he’s bored with white. Yes, too cryptic, I know. You see, RidgeRunner gets all of the rabbit hides when I harvest my rabbits. I bag them up […]
Saving Lost Skills – Pioneer Family Days at Heathcote Botanical Gardens
I received an email from my wife’s aunt, Nan, who happens to be Heathcote Botanical Gardens’s Educational Coordinator. Her email was in regards to yesterday’s post on harvesting meat rabbits. She mentioned that she would be willing to run the camera for me to better show the process (one of two offers I received – […]
Harvesting a meat rabbit
Since I’ve made it known that I eat them, the question of “How do you process them?” has come up many times. I recently timed myself and wrote out the entire process when the question of how long it takes me per animal came up on a live chat session with some of the folks […]
Backyard Egg Options
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. “Eggses!” I have a fairly wide selection of eggs in my refrigerator, considering I raise them myself on little over a quarter acre in town. Here are the results from
I Will Survive
I ran across a link from a friend on Facebook today. As soon as I read the title, I changed my mind as to what today’s article would be about. Thanks Katie! “Bunnies implicated in the demise of Neanderthals“
Coturnix Quail (Yes, Again!)
SOOOOoooo I’ve been obsessing off and on about quail ever since BlueTang started me thinking about them. Recently, many factors have started bringing quail back into my radar, so I’ve decided to increase my numbers a bit to fill in some freezer (and jar) space. I had some already, but I had a problem
animals, chickens, equipment, gardening, meat, Muscovy ducks, plants, Quail, rabbits, self sufficiency
Farm Update Feb 2013
I called this “Farm update” because “Backyard Update” just doesn’t have a nice ring to it. Plus it doesn’t look like a back yard…it looks like, well, a farm…a tiny, narrow, crowded farm. This has been a fairly busy week for me, and I just wanted to