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 | Oct 10, 2011 | Animals, Chickens, From City to Country, Lessons, Livestock
JANUARY 2012 UPDATE: We’ve just hit our ‘8 month’ anniversary of getting our first chickens, and I have to add that we lost one of our girls to a coyote while they were free-ranging one day last fall. She was a free spirit and used to wander WAY...
by Victoria Gazeley | Oct 7, 2011 | Animals, Chickens, From City to Country, Livestock, Small Livestock, Videos
I have a confession to make. I am a dealer of avian contraband. Or a chicken’s version of an Apple Store. Or some sort of poultry pop star. At least that’s what it looks like. I walk outside, and within seconds I have 15 fluffy, preening little pre-teens following...
by Victoria Gazeley | Sep 29, 2011 | From City to Country
There are so many reasons why people like us ponder the decision of urban vs rural life. Emergency preparedness, peace and quiet, becoming more self sufficient in food… all are quoted as reasons people want to ditch the city and move to the boondocks. As we talked...
by Victoria Gazeley | Aug 22, 2011 | Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, From City to Country, Lessons
There are days that I wonder what I was thinking by trying to do this modern homesteading thing on my own. Like this past week. There I was, having not been sick at all for at least a year, finally feeling human again after more than a week of being unable to walk...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jul 28, 2011 | Fear, From City to Country, Homestead Planning, Lessons, Mindset
If there’s one thing I hear over and over from readers who have a dream of rural living, is that it’s their spouse, family or friends who are keeping them from their modern homesteading dream. Let’s face it – while the number of people desiring...
