Wednesday, June 16, 2010

What Is The Modern Homesteading Lifestyle For ?

This is a question that covers past, present and future. It's about working together for all those living on and around the homestead and their security, of food, living space, kids, grandparents, jobs, water, fuel, you and your partner and the savings associated with working together, Like the dumbness of sending your kids to day care to be taught by other who knows what and sending your grandparents to the rest home to be treated badly too. It would be smarter to have the grandparents living on the homestead in there little cabin or just down the street and having the kids and the grandparents taking care of each other when you're working on or off the homestead. Then there's the help making meals and the savings that come from the fact that it takes almost as much time and energy to make a meal for 1 or 2 as it does for 6 and is much more fun eating together. Growing a garden is a lot better too. The grandparents cant do all the digging , but there are lots of weeding and watering that they can do , especially if you find ways to make it easier, like dip irrigation, a seat with big wheels that can go down the rows for weeding. The list of reasons for homesteading will grow as you start thinking in this way and living this way. When you're the grandparents farther down the road, you will be a lot happier there than in the rest home. There on the homestead you will get to see your grand kids growing up and helping you do the watering and weeding .

Monday, June 14, 2010

You Wanted A Photo Of Me


Well I got it on here and haven't broke the camera or computer so far!

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Save the World Train Oxen And Sell Your Tractor

Stop the madness of easy, couch potato homesteading, and dreaming about a little house on the prairie, where you can live the same way you did in the city, getting fatter, lazier, less healthy and then handicapped. The Homesteaders life style is all about the opposite. Making your dream of little house on the prairie come true, and though your dream tricking you and your loved ones into better health , caring for All - each other - your live stock - your grandparents - your neighbors - your county - your country - the Earth... It's about living on less and making more of what you need and when you do need to buy some thing , buy it locally- or nationally-made , that's caring , caring that your neighbors or countrymen and women have a job.

OXEN are better for your homestead. You can get 2 at a dairy or action for about $110. Bottle feed the calves, and if you don't have milk goats to feed them your own milk, 2 bags of milk replacer will cost you about $130. In a year you will be doing light work with them. The fun you and your family will have raising them and training them , will last a lifetime in all your minds. For less then 500 dollars you can plow your garden and pull fire wood from the forest. A tractor is $20,000. Go to YouTube look up oxen plowing. Google oxen; there are books, videos and classes on doing it. And ask yourself how many carrots or what ever will you have to grow to pay off that $20,000 for a tractor. Ask, do you wish to keep being a slave to the bank, tractor repair and the gas station?

What comes out the back end of an ox will grow some great veggies, but what comes out of the exhaust pipe of the tractor will not.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

The Goats and Calves

The lady called from the dairy and said she would have more calves in June, so some time this month training will start on the Oxen. The 5 momma goats have had 10 babies so far. One more momma to go and so far 6 are baby girls . Hopefully some one will help me get those photos out of the camera and on here for you all to see all that's going on here. The garden is really looking good. Eating fresh veggies out of it and canned some dill pickles the other day.

Chattanooga Sorghum mill and Oxen Training

Well after looking for a sorghum mill and a new Nubian buck goat for over 2 years I found some one with nice show quality Nubian goats. When they were showing me around their place, I almost tripped over a sorghum mill laying on the ground, and told them that I had been looking all over for one, and that I had missed getting one a little over a year ago on the shopper newspaper for $200 by just a day. They walked me around the barn and showed me the one that they already had set up and working and said that they didn't need 2 of them and for the $200 I could have this newer one that was in very good condition. The steel still had its factory paint: international harvester red.

A new Nubian buck for the herd and a sorghum mill from the same place. And that was the last place I was going to call this year about finding a new Nubian buck! And that was after about 25 calls this year, and not finding one. That's God's funny way of saying I'm here and looking out for you and your project. I sure was feeling good driving home with them all loaded up. The mud flaps were dragging at times. The mill weighs #1158.