How to Sell Honey: Options, Regulations, & Tips

How to Sell Honey: Options, Regulations, & Tips

If you are a beekeeper looking for ways to sell your honey, you’ve come to the right place. In this blog post, we will discuss the various options available to you when it comes to selling honey. We will also cover the regulations that must 

How to Conduct a Hive Check or Inspection on your Beehive

How to Conduct a Hive Check or Inspection on your Beehive

A hive check or hive inspection is an important part of beekeeping. This is when you visit your beehives and look for any signs that something may be wrong or that your bees need attention from you. Checking on your hives in the summer is 

How to Water Glass Eggs for Long-Term Storage

How to Water Glass Eggs for Long-Term Storage

Water glassing is an age-old egg preservation method that allows you to preserve eggs for 12-18 months – much longer than you would keep them on the counter or in the refrigerator. The process for water glassing eggs is simple but relies on a few 

How to Make Jerky Treats for Dogs

How to Make Jerky Treats for Dogs

This method for making homemade dog jerky treats comes to us from guest author, Devon Dams O’Connor, a writer from upstate New York who is also an inspiring cook, gardener, and community-builder. I’m on a constant quest to make things for less than the cost 

How to Choose a Heritage Chicken Breed for your Homestead

How to Choose a Heritage Chicken Breed for your Homestead

We want to thank Olivia Kramer at Red Rock Farmstead for sharing her knowledge of heritage chicken breeds with our readers! Don’t forget to check out some of the links to Olivia’s website and social media accounts so that you can connect with her! Many 

How to Render and Clean Beeswax

How to Render and Clean Beeswax

While there are many methods for cleaning and rendering beeswax, this method, described by Starla of Misty Meadows Homestead & Apiary results in beautiful clean wax worthy of all of your beeswax products. We asked her to share with our readers so you too can 

How to Use Natural Remedies for your Livestock

How to Use Natural Remedies for your Livestock

Natural remedies can help address health issues with your livestock when used safely.

How to Raise your own Meat Chickens

How to Raise your own Meat Chickens

By Katie Ostrander If you’re like me, you’re totally put off by the chicken you see in the grocery store. Hard to understand advertising, cuts that see to be too large for a chicken, and what exactly is all that water from in the little 

Book Review:  How to Speak Chicken

Book Review: How to Speak Chicken

Subtitle:  Why Your Chickens Do What They Do & Say What They Say I consider chickens to be the gateway animal to having animals on your homestead.  Once you’ve got the basics (shelter, food, water, and a place to forage) they are surprisingly low-maintenance. One 

How to get Started with Beekeeping

How to get Started with Beekeeping

There’s been a huge surge in the number of homesteaders interested in or practicing beekeeping as part of their journey to self-sufficiency. The benefits are multi-fold: you get to enjoy your harvest of honey and maybe even sell some, and you get to support one