This is a guest post and entry in Round 1 of the Farm Dreams writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A $300 gift certificate toward any purch

This is a guest post and entry in Round 1 of the Farm Dreams writing contest. The prizes for this round include:

First Prize: A $300 gift certificate toward any purchase of…

The Practical Prepper

The more we develop a self-reliant lifestyle and work on our preparedness, the more my family appreciates the value of simpler things in life. This doesn't mean that we shun technology (in fact, I work with technology as a part of my career), but it does mean that we aren't obsessed with it.

Like many…

Guest Post by Chris Seltzer

In this post we’ll be covering:

• Why you need to rotate cattle
• How to check for gut fill
• What manure is telling you about the condition of your cattle
• Determine and implement an adequate recovery period for your grass…

The Happy Homesteader

Anyone considering homesteading will get a strong dose of reality once they jump in, but it can be helpful to have an idea of what you're jumping into before you take the plunge. In the past posts of this series I've prompted you to imagine yourself in a few situations that…

     I have a dream. A dream of walking through a colorfully lush yard brimming with fruit, vegetables, flowers, and herbs. A few hens scamper on by while my rabbits wrinkle their noses at me as if to say, "Hey, fruit basket! Are you sure you can do this? It's not too late to wake up." Meanwhile, the deer are simultaneously squashing melons while munching on squash, the wild rabbits are nibbling on the lettuce, the birds are snatching the blueberries, and the chipmunks are digging  in the…

The Aspiring Farmer Blog



Saturday was a 21 hour day and gave us a little dose of the farm life. Firstly, we’d been sick all week with a cold passed along by Sweetbreads’ best friend’s baby. Note: Drinking too much wine around a sick child is a surefire way to catch a cold. Not a big deal, we thought. Just a minor cold and we’d be over it in a few days. Well, that little sucker stuck around all week and before we knew it we were…

This is a guest post and entry in Round 1 of the Farm Dreams writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A $300 gift certificate toward any purch

This is a guest post and entry in Round 1 of the Farm Dreams writing contest. The prizes for this round include:

First Prize: A $300 gift certificate toward any purchase of…

This week's hour long podcast is now live. You can listen/subscribe directly here, or at itunes here.  If you prefer to just hear this week's episode click here to listen right here, right now.

In this…

This is a guest post and entry in Round 1 of the Farm Dreams writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A $300 gift certificate toward any purch

This is a guest post and entry in Round 1 of the Farm Dreams writing contest. The prizes for this round include:

First Prize: A $300 gift certificate toward any purchase of…

The Food Lawyer

Starting or expanding a farm is an expensive proposition. A few weeks back I posted about using leases to expand acreage without massive capital investment. If you do need capital, however, either for new land or for equipment that will make you work more efficiently, there are sources of financing an agricultural business that are available to no other industry.

For…

Wild Wanderings Blog – February 16, 2012

Hello everyone!

I appreciate the responses and emails I’ve received from my first post….many thanks! A question I’d like to address…How does “Traditional / Primitive” skills fit into farming / prepping etc? Well, obviously traditional fits well into the homesteading and farming mind-frame. But what about primitive? Sounds a bit outdated…doesn’t it? This is something I’ve struggled with for years promoting…

The Practical Prepper

First aid is an important part of our preparedness planning. Of course, we rely on medical professionals, but we also know how to handle basic first aid in an emergency too. We feel it's important to be able to respond to immediate crises a.s.a.p., since it can make the difference between life and death.…

The Happy Homesteader

If you have been reading the other posts in this series, then I hope you have been giving some consideration to the realities of homesteading.  Letting your day dreams wander for a bit away from that perfectly dreamy life on the homestead to situations that you will most definitely encounter can help to prepare you...not scare you.  Remember…

I learned most of what I know from my Great Grandfather, He live right next door and he was always teaching me about gardening, seed starting, and animal raising. But I never really put any of it to use until many years later.

My adventure started in the early 80's when after 10 yrs of marriage I filled for a divorce and became a single mother of 1 collecting workman's comp. I was just barely paying the bills never mind putting food on the table so I decided to start a garden and…

This week's hour long podcast is now live. You can listen/subscribe directly here, or at itunes here.  If you prefer to just hear this week's episode click here to listen now.

In this episode we discuss:…

It pays to know your cows! Today started out like any Friday. Get up, head for the day job, come home. I've been expecting Rowena to calve, so the first order of business is always to go look for her. Today there were other things to do first. While I was putting hay out, I looked up the hill, and there was rowena all by herself. She turned around, and from the looks of her tail at that distance, she'd had her calf. But there was no calf with her. When I finished with the hay, I went looking…

The Food Lawyer

In order to remain profitable, many small farms need to cultivate revenue from every possible source. As public interest in farming and agriculture grows, introducing a bit of agritourism on your farm can be a very profitable source of income. 

Treat a decision to enter the agritourism business like you would treat a decision to  grow a crop or to conduct any other agricultural activity - perform a risk…

This is a guest post and entry in Round 1 of the Farm Dreams writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A $300 gift certificate toward any purch

This is a guest post and entry in Round 1 of the Farm Dreams writing contest. The prizes for this round include:

First Prize: A $300 gift certificate toward any purchase of…

Wild Wanderings Blog

Hello everyone!

I’m excited to be a part of this new site and vision for the future of our Children and our Planet. I feel honored to be an official blogger on Farm Dreams. Networking with like-minded people is very powerful indeed and I believe this venture was created to bring us all together…(Kudos Dusty:) We like to believe we live in Communities, but honestly most of us don’t really know our neighbors, or want to…for that…