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Chickens in Your Future, Perhaps?
You’re ready to add a small flock to your homestead (or backyard) and you want to do it right. But where do you start? What’s the first step? And what the heck are you going to do about a chicken coop? Consider this your great-big-everything-you-ever-needed-to-know-about-chicken-coops resource. It includes lots of photos, as well as plenty of dos & don'ts I've gathered over the last 9 years of keeping chickens!
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Being Old-Fashioned on Purpose

How to Cultivate Community While Homesteading

The BIGGEST Homestead Mistakes We’ve Made (so far)

Because It’s Not About Canning and Chickens

How Two City Kids Became Homesteaders

Does This Homesteading Thing Really Matter?

When Homesteading Makes You Lonely…

I’m Teaching My Kids to Fail

The World’s Worst Homesteader

On Homesteading Stereotypes, and Such.

The Story of Our Prairie House

Wrapping Up 2015

Homesteading in Wyoming

10 Things Your Non-Homesteading Friends Just Don’t Understand
