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Posts by category
- Category: Blog
- Cooking The Free Range Raised Duck
- Cooking The Free Range Raised Chicken
- Find the Perfect Tomato for Your Garden
- Why I Freeze My Own Fast Food
- Make Your Own French Toast
- Waste Not, Want Not
- How We Chose Our Sheep
- The Choice Of Contentment
- Do It Yourself Hot Packs
- Livestock Guardian Dogs Protect People
- A Dog and His Sheep
- Guerrero And the Mountain Lion
- Guardi the Pyre and the Meth Addict
- Moses and the Poultry Bandits
- What Bravo taught us about LGD Guarding Style
- Always Trust The Dog (LGD)
- The Most Nature Friendly Form of Predator Control (LGD)
- Making Harvesting Roselle Easier
- Questionable Mushroom
- Keeping Chickens in the Winter
- On Paying the Price for Good Seed
- Pasture Management
- Development Of The Livestock Guardian Dog
- The Working Homestead Dog
- A Sweet Season
- Beekeeping: Beware of Internet Scams and “Experts”
- Garlic: Easy to Grow, Delicious & Healthy
- Produce Overload
- How Many Animals Can I Have?
- On holding fresh tomatoes or okra… (7/14/2018)
- Purslane: What? Another delicious weed!
- George’s Tip from the Homestead 7/9/2018 Sumac, a useful, neglected plant
- How many animals can I / should I have per acre?
- Benefits of Bottle Feeding
- The Pain and Pleasure of Sweet Potatoes
- Homestead Helpers and Guardians part 2
- Homestead Helpers And Guardians
- The Delights of Mulch
- Monarch Butterflies: You Can Make a Difference
- A New Addition To The Homestead
- Four Tips for Planting Tomatoes
- Spring Farm Babies
- Too Much Milk
- Storey’s Guide to Raising Sheep, Book Review
- Pets or Production
- Home Cheese Making Recipes, Book Review
- Composting: Putting the Things God Gave You to Use
- A More Natural Grasshopper Control
- The Complete Soapmaker Tips, Techniques and Recipes, Book Review
- Springtime Homesteading Cleanup
- A Gardening Tip From The Homestead
- Preserving Eggs
- Homesteading is Hard
- A Favorite Bubbly Beverage
- Native Seeds/Search: Preserving Southwest Native America’s Seed Heritage from the Ground Up
- Emergency Preparedness and Survival Guide, a Book Review
- Old Friends In The Garden
- Victory Seeds
- Sick Homesteaders – What Do You Do?
- A Snapshot Of Homesteading Life
- A Wild Treat
- Settling In to the Homestead
- The Rescue Lamb All Grown Up
- Sandhill Preservation Center
- Making Jerky
- “Coming Home” to The Sample Seed Shop
- When you’re cold, they are cold…or maybe not
- The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Book Review
- Joy of Cooking, Book Review
- Livestock Guardian Puppies and HOD
- Moving to the Country
- Christmas Savings
- The Hazards of Livestock Guardian Dogs and Poultry
- A New Discovery
- Auther Ray, On Old Time Ways – Holing Potatoes
- 5 Reasons I’m Thankful That I Can Homestead
- The Best Bread
- 7 Tips for Fall Garden Clean Up
- Making Your Homestead Pay: Part 2
- Making Your Homestead Pay – Part 1
- How We Got Into Goats
- Goat or Sheep – Which Is It?
- Homesteading The Good Life
- Balancing Homesteading Life Part 2
- Balancing The Homesteading Life
- In Case Of Emergency
- Wild Hibiscus: Wonder Plant!
- 5 Gardening Tips “When Life Gets Complicated”
- Rut Season Is Coming
- Money On The Hoof And In The Ground
- Homesteading And Neighbors
- The Lively Homestead
- The Newest Bottle Baby
- What Breed of Chicken Is Right For Your Homestead?
- Dreaming Of Ducks
- Why Do I Homestead?
- Turkey Season on the Homestead
- Frankenstein Bug
- Good Snakes
- Out With The Ants
- The Garden Slug – Escargo Without A Shell
- The Scythe – Not just a tool for the Grim Reaper
- Grandma Fannie and Mama’s Sauerkraut
- Why a Barn Cat?
- How I Learned to Butcher Chickens
- Goat Kids – The Sorrowful Side
- Category: Book Reviews
- The Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook Recipes for Cast Iron
- The American Boys Handy Book by D.C. Beard (Review by Jerreth McLaughlin)
- The Beekeeper’s Handbook 3rd Edition
- Home Sausage Making 3rd Edition By Susan Mahnke Peary & Charles G. Reavis Storey Publishing 2013,
- Book Review of Storey’s Guide to Raising Poultry (done by Jerreth McLaughlin)
- Self-Reliance: Recession-Proof Your Pantry, Book Review
- Tan Your Hide! Book Review
- The Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook
- Storey’s Guide to Raising Dairy Goats, Book Review
- Category: George's Tips from the Homestead
- Grow Your Own Hot Sauce
- How to Start Tomatoes from Seed
- Why Grow Tomatoes From Seed?
- Why I don’t cut down trees by myself
- The Indispensable Pocket Knife
- A Really Good Knife for a Great Price
- How to Start a Flock of Purebred Chickens
- The Neglected Jerusalem Artichoke
- How to Cook Homegrown Poultry
- Cooking to Stretch Your Dollar
- The Muscovy Duck is Great!
- The Quiet Pleasure of Gleaning from the Garden
- Why Would A Person Get a Livestock Guardian Dog?
- Basics of Free Range Chickens
- Five Lessons Learned from an Heirloom Bean
- Dealing with Frost in the Garden
- What do Your Toothbrush and Chainsaw Have in Common?
- The Advantage of Planting Differently Colored Sweet Potatoes
- What to Do with Bean Crosses
- What “Percent” Milk Do You Drink?
- Why I Am A Seed Saver
- On Curing Sweet Potatoes
- Quick Tips on How to Save Bean Seed
- To Make An Heirloom
- The Advantage of Buying Quality Tools
- On Dealing with Garden Thieves
- Low Tech Drip Irrigation
- Four Reasons LARGE Squash are Better
- Bush beans vs. Pole, which is better for you?
- Saving Money on Sweet Potatoes
- On Being an “Heirloom Gardener”
- What is Real Heirloom Gardening?
- A Really Good Reason to Garden
- Be Careful with Gardening Tools
- An Unexpected Live Trap Catch
- The Japanese Fiber Banana: Beautiful, Cold Hardy and Practical
- Peppers Combine Beauty with Utility
- Developing Culinary Resilience
- No Egg Pancakes
- Huitlacoche: An Edible Gardening Problem
- Boost Your Garden Note Taking by Using Electronic Tools
- On Keeping a Garden Notebook
- The Amazing Mr. Toad
- What’s Eating my Tomato Plants?!
- The Praying Mantis, a Gardener’s Friend
- Fall is a Great Time to Obtain Sweet Potatoes for Growing
- The Advantage of Raising a “Flerd”
- Sweet Potatoes as a Leafy Green
- Never Again Buy Pancake Mix
- The Amazing Long Bean
- Elephant Garlic: So large you’d think it was from Texas!
- “Easy Honey” is like “Easy Money”
- Easily obtain garlic for your garden.
- On tightening wooden handled tools
- The Usefulness of a Live Trap: #1 on a series about live traps
- Category: Homesteading Lifestyle
- Category: Ron's Thoughts
- Category: Uncategorized
Events
- Good Intentions or Good Results?
- Eduma Autumn 2015
- Summer School 2015
- Build Education Website Using WordPress
- Elegant Light Box Paper Cut Dioramas
- Happy New Year 2016
- Eduma Autumn 2016
- Education Autumn Tour 2017
Our Team
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- Raising Rabbits
- Raising Chickens!
- Making Probiotics
- Vermiculture, or Raising Redworms (GA-203)
- Growing Sweet Potatoes (GA-202)
- Sourdough - (CK-202)
- Making Yogurt - (CK-201)
- Growing Beans (GA-201)
- Introduction to Homesteading (HS-101)
Lessons
- When You Shouldn't Get a Livestock Guardian Dog
- How Many LGDs Do I Need?
- Why Grow Tomatoes from Seed?
- How to Transplant Tomato Plants into the Garden
- How to start tomato seeds without pre-sprouting them.
- How Old is Too Old to Train a LGD?
- Cafe
- Can't any dog be trained to protect livestock?
- Will a LGD/Non LGD Cross do the Job?
- What a livestock guardian dog is, and what it isn't
- What a Livestock Guardian Dog Is and Isn't
- The Most Nature Friendly Form of Predator Control
- Always Trust the Dog
- What Bravo Taught us about LGD Guarding Style
- Moses and the Poultry Bandit
- Guerrero and the Mountain Lion
- A Dog and His Sheep
- Homestead Helpers and Guardians
- Homestead Helpers
- Development of the Livestock Guardian Dog
- Livestock Guardian Dogs Protect People
- How to Correct Mistakes the Dog Makes
- The Most Nature Friendly Form of Predator Control
- Checkpoint #18 - Other common health issues
- Other common health issues - Online class cafe
- Other common health issues - Readings
- Checkpoint # 17 Deworming
- Deworming - Online Class Cafe
- Deworming - Photo gallery
- Deworming - Readings
- Checkpoint #16 Parvo Virus and vaccines
- Parvo Virus - Online class cafe
- Parvo......readings
- Checkpoint #15 - Raw food diet
- Raw food diet - Online class cafe
- Raw food diet interactive photo gallery
- Raw food diet - readings
- Checkpoint #14 Hot spots
- Hot spots - Online class cafe
- Hot spots - Readings
- Checkpoint #13 Trustworthy
- Online Class Cafe - How to know if a dog is trustworthy
- Video - How to know if a dog is trustworthy
- Checkpoint #12 How to correct mistakes a dog makes
- Online class cafe - how to correct mistakes
- Readings - The Hazards of Livestock Guardian Dogs and Poultry
- Checkpoint #11 - Introducing a dog
- Online class cafe - how to introduce a dog
- Readings - How to introduce the dog to livestock
- Checkpoint #10
- Online Class Cafe
- Video - How old is too old to train a dog for livestock?
- Readings
- Checkpoint #9
- Online cafe
- Video - How many livestock guardian dogs?
- Readings
- Checkpoint #8
- Online Cafe
- Things to look for photo gallery
- Audio interviews with different breeders
- Readings
- How to Start a Flock of Purebred Chickens
- Checkpoint # 7
- Online Class cafe
- Photo gallery with examples
- Readings
- Checkpoint # 6
- Online class cafe
- Interactive Photo gallery
- Video - Why just any dog won't do
- The Working Homestead Dog
- Checkpoint #5
- Online class cafe
- Pictures....can you guess?
- Readings
- Checkpoint #4
- Online Class cafe
- Photos - Can you find the livestock guardian dog?
- Documentaries
- Readings - LGD Breeds
- Checkpoint #2
- Video - The Way of the Pack
- Checkpoint #1
- Video - Why a Livestock Guardian Dog
- Online Class Cafe
- Readings - Why a livestock guardian dog
- Other common health issues - audio
- Deworming - audio
- Parvo Virus and other vaccines - audio
- Raw food diet - audio
- Hot spots - audio
- How long does it take to get a dog fullytrained? how to know when the dog is trustworthy with the livestock.
- Video - How to correct mistakes that the dog makes
- Video - How to introduce the dog to livestock
- History of the livestock guardian dog
- Development Of The Livestock Guardian Dog
- Development Of The Livestock Guardian Dog
- How to grow tomato plants from cuttings
- How to plant sprouted tomato seeds
- Loading Your Barn
- Loading Your Flatbed
- Preparing your barn for hay
- Some Tomato Varieties Reviewed
- What about Genetically Modified Tomatoes?
- Heirloom compared to Open Pollinated
- Hybrid versus Open Pollinated
- Kinds of tomatoes as defined by growth habit
- Kinds of tomatoes as defined by fruit
- Health Issues
- Video - Intro to raising meat rabbits
- Video - Tanning Rabbit skins part 2
- Video - Tanning Rabbit skins part 1
- Video - How to sex a rabbit
- Video - Simple way to remove rabbit fur from your clothes
- Video - Baby rabbits and their growth
- Video - How to handle bunnies
- Video on how to sterilize cages
- Video on breeding rabbits
- Video - How to bake a rabbit
- Rabbit recipes
- Breeding rabbits
- Dealing with predators
- The origins of the domestic rabbit
- Why rabbits
- Mulching Tomatoes
- Tomato Growing Requirements
- Tomato Origins
- Why Tomatoes?
- The Nutritional value of eating rabbits
- Video - Tanning Rabbit Skins part 3
- Video - How to process a rabbit
- Feeding Rabbits
- Website Resources About Chickens
- Books About Chickens
- Chicken Soup
- Pumpkin Chicken Soup
- Processing Chickens - Video
- How to Process Chickens
- Eating Old Birds
- Why You Should Eat Chickens from Your Flock
- The Hazards of Livestock Guardian Dogs and Poultry
- The Crafty Coon (Raccoon)
- The Problematic Opossum
- Chicken Predators
- When Good Chickens Die
- Video - How to Tell if Eggs are Fresh
- When There Are No Eggs
- Raising Chickens Intro Video
- George's Guide to Incubation ebook
- Incubators
- Cutie, the Epitome of Broodiness
- Advantages and Uses of Broody Hens
- Broody vs. Non Broody Hens
- Purebred Flock vs. Assorted
- Bantams: "Great Chickens Which Come in Small Packages"
- Basic Breed Types and Their Characteristics
- Part 3, What's involved? Time
- Part 2 What's involved? Food and Water
- Video - Feeding Chickens
- What's involved? Shelter (Coop)
- Glossary of Chicken Terms
- Tips for Getting Your First Chickens
- Why Raise Chickens?
- Requirements for Raising Rabbits
- Rabbit Breeds used for Meat and Their History
- Website Resources About Chickens
- Types of Rabbits
- Glossary of Chicken Terms
- George's Guide to Incubation ebook
- Pumpkin Chicken Soup
- Chicken Soup
- The Crafty Coon (Raccoon)
- The Problematic Opossum
- Chicken Predators
- The Hazards of Livestock Guardian Dogs and Poultry
- How to raise and maintain Water Kefir
- Favorite resources
- Interactive knowledge checkpoint
- Recipes and uses
- How to store and/or sell your extra SCOBY
- Challenges and their answers
- How to raise and maintain Kombucha
- Kombucha SCOBY & other details
- Benefits of Kombucha
- A Brief History of Kombucha
- Favorite resources
- Interactive checkpoint
- Recipes and uses
- How to store and/or sell extra water kefir grains
- Challenges and their answers
- How to get a start of Water Kefir & other details
- Benefits of Water Kefir
- What Is Water Kefir
- Favorite resources
- Interactive knowledge checkpoint
- How to store and/or sell extra milk kefir grains
- Milk Kefir Challenges
- Milk Kefir Recipes and Uses
- How to raise and maintain Milk Kefir
- How to Obtain Milk Kefir Grains & other details
- What Milk Kefir is good for
- What Is Milk Kefir?
- Isn't it dangerous? Could I get sick if I make a mistake?
- Explaining probiotic beverages and a bit of their history
- More recipes for Sourdough
- Processing Chickens - Video
- Video - Feeding Chickens
- Incubators
- Cutie, the Epitome of Broodiness
- Raising Chickens Intro Video
- Video - How to Tell if Eggs are Fresh
- Books About Chickens
- When There Are No Eggs
- Advantages and Uses of Broody Hens (Raising Chickens P101)
- Broody vs. Non Broody Hens
- Why You Should Eat Chickens from Your Flock
- Bantams: "Great Chickens Which Come in Small Packages"
- When Good Chickens Die
- Eating Old Birds
- How to Process Chickens
- Purebred Flock vs. Assorted
- Basic Breed Types and Their Characteristics
- Tips for Getting Your First Chickens
- Part 3, What's involved? Time
- Part 2 What's involved? Food and Water
- What's involved? Shelter (Coop)
- Why Raise Chickens?
- Ways You Can Use Sweet Potatoes and Sweet Potato Greens (GA-202)
- Harvesting Sweet Potatoes Video
- Planting Sweet Potatoes Video
- Sweet Potato Slips Video
- Intro to Sweet Potatoes Video
- My Sweet Potato Story
- Sweet Potato Pie Recipe
- Sweet Potatoes and Self-Sufficiency
- Sweet Potato Temperature Requirements (GA-202)
- Sweet Potato Pests (GA-202)
- Dealing with Large Roots (GA-202)
- Planting Sweet Potato Slips (GA-202)
- Starting Sweet Potato Slips (GA-202)
- Sources for Sweet Potato Slips
- Sweet Potato Varieties
- You Can’t Beat Growing Sweet Potatoes Yourself!
- Building a Worm Farm, Part 2 (GA-203)
- Building a Worm Farm, Part 2 (GA-203)
- What Is Vermiculture, Part 3
- What Is Vermiculture, Part 3
- Problems Encountered in Raising Red Worms (GA-203)
- Problems Encountered in Raising Red Worms (GA-203)
- What is Vermiculture? Part 2 (GA-203)
- What is Vermiculture? Part 2 (GA-203)
- What is Vermiculture? Part 1 (GA-203)
- What is Vermiculture? Part 1 (GA-203)
- Redworm Living Environment (GA-203)
- Redworm Living Environment (GA-203)
- What is the life cycle of a redworm? (GA-203)
- What is the life cycle of a redworm? (GA-203)
- What is a redworm? (GA-203)
- What is a redworm? (GA-203)
- Outline for Sweet Potatoes
- Introduction to Sweet Potatoes
- How to Dig Sweet Potatoes
- Saving Sweet Potato Roots
- Planting Sweet Potato Slips on Hill
- Making a Hill for Sweet Potatoes
- French Bread Ingredients and Steps
- Making a Sourdough Starter - Video
- French Bread Video
- Sourdough Pancakes Video
- Sourdough Biscuits
- Sourdough Pancake Batter - Option 2
- Sourdough Pancakes - Option 1
- How to Cook Pancakes
- Stages for Making Sourdough English Muffins
- Tips for English Muffins
- English Muffin Video
- No Knead Sourdough Video
- Sourdough Starter Materials and Notes
- Working Sourdough Into Your Schedule
- History of Sourdough
- Leather Britches and Possible Toxicity Issue (GA-201)
- Introduction to Beans (GA-201)
- How to Plant Bean Seeds (GA-201)
- How to Dehydrate Beans (GA-201)
- How To Can Green Beans (GA-201)
- Saving Bean Seeds (GA-201)
- Video - How to Make Greek Yogurt (CK-201)
- Video - How to Make Yogurt (CK-201)
- Yogurt Recipies (CK-201)
- Important Information When Making Yogurt Starter (CK-201)
- Making Greek Yogurt (CK-201)
- How to Make Yogurt (CK-201)
- Keeping Yogurt Culture Going (CK-201)
- Yogurt Running Out (CK-201)
- What is Greek Yogurt? (CK-201)
- Using Other Kinds of Milk (CK-201)
- What is Yogurt & Where Did it Come From? (CK-201)
- Steps to Make Yogurt & Starter (CK-201)
- Necessary Tools & Ingredients (CK-201)
- Some Yogurt Facts (CK-201)
- Cutworms and Beans (GA-201)
- Rabbits in the Garden (GA-201)
- Grasshoppers in the Garden (GA-201)
- Protecting Beans From Predators (GA-201)
- The Slug (GA-201)
- The Blister Beetle (GA-201)
- Deer in the Garden(GA-301)
- Growth Habits of Beans (GA-201)
- Bean Species (GA-201)
- Use of Beans (GA-201)
- Growing Beans on Corn (GA-201)
- How to Grow Beans (GA-201)
- Bean Seed Storage (GA-201)
- Harvest and Preparation of Seed (GA-201)
- Saving Bean Seed - Isolation and Crossing (GA-201)
- Spacing and Support (GA-201)
- The Value of Beans (GA-201)
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