How do you keep livestock water from freezing solid off-grid?

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Obviously, we can't use an electric stock tank heater. Propane heaters are expensive to buy -- and to run! Will remembered his dad telling him about his chore, as a kid, of having to...

We’re madly trying to get our 2020 Seed Treasures catalog finished

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Where do the days go, anyway? I'm thinking we have to give up sleeping or something, between normal homestead chores, canning, and getting ready for the 2020 garden. Already we're starting to get seed...

Snow, snow, snow

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Well, at least the perennial garden plants will have plenty of snow cover this winter. We just got another five inches today. I can't lie and say I wish winter would stay for months...

While its snowing, David and Will work inside

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For a shop project, David is making a slide-in-trailer receiver cargo rack.  At school, he cut and assembled the rack.  But tonight he brought it home and he and Will measured and drilled holes...

We’re into the “gettin’ ready for winter” mode

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Although we have the woodshed stuffed full, which is about two years' worth, we are now filling our enclosed back porch with small wood. (This is the popple sapling poles that Will saves when...