by Victoria Gazeley | Dec 18, 2012 | Animals, Buildings, Chickens, Construction
Picture this: you’ve decided to add chickens to your backyard or homestead. You’ve spent hours researching basic healthcare and anatomy, you’ve visited all the forums (and become totally overwhelmed), and you think you know what chickens need to be happy. Now comes...
by Victoria Gazeley | Oct 30, 2011 | Animals, Buildings, Chickens, Construction, From City to Country, Lessons, Livestock, Materials, Repair
It’s something out of a horror movie. You come home from a fun, barn dance/Halloween party with your young family to find your livestock slaughtered in their pen, blood spattered everywhere, corpses ripped to shreds. A gory end to a family’s pets –...
by Victoria Gazeley | Aug 27, 2011 | Construction, Materials, Repair, Rural Living Skills
There’s something about rustic shakes or more refined shingles that just screams ‘country charm’. From old New England cottages to sprawling West Coast estates and tiny rural cabins and outbuildings in the Rockies, wood shakes and shingles have a...
by Victoria Gazeley | Mar 19, 2011 | Construction, From City to Country
Restoring a heritage log cabin isn’t something I set out to do. It was never a grand life goal, or something I thought I might like to do ‘someday’. It just happened, and now, 12 years later, I’m so glad it did. I bought our little house in...
