Is chicken manure good fertilizer? Chicken manure tea is one of the best plant fertilizers out there, and believe me when I say that your garden is craving it. Heavy nitrogen feeders like tomatoes require a lot of nutrients, and this year, we’re planning on planting a ton of them. In the past, I’ve grown…
Weird chicken eggs are just one of those things that happen from time to time, but they can be kinds of a shock if you’re not sure why they were laid in the first place. We’ve gotten quite a few of them over the years, and usually they mean nothing, but sometimes they can be…
As soon as I brought quail home, I had to figure out how to build a quail hutch for them to live in. At the time, our quail were too young to go outside, so they lived in our bathroom in plastic containers while they grew out their feathers. Which gave us a few weeks…
Together, we’ve made FrugalChicken on of the best homesteading blog websites out there. It’s hard to believe we’re just moments away from 2016. First, I want to thank you for vising my homesteading blog over the past year. Your readership has made this one of the most remarkable years of my life, and I’m glad…
You can start homesteading today without spending a lot by using these simple hacks I’ve learned over the years. Long before we bought our farm, we knew we wanted to start homesteading. Lifestyle is important to us, and we wanted the freedom homesteading brings. We started from scratch, and built our farm up by taking some…
Planting a homestead orchard with fruit trees was a priority as soon as we bought our farm. Our homestead already had a small pecan orchard planted, and to our delight there also was a young black walnut tree. Our first year, we harvested over 100 pounds of pecans, and we couldn’t even gather them all there…
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