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This Week in Farm Photos

Maat van UitertMaat van Uitert is a backyard chicken and sustainable living expert. She is also the author of Chickens: Naturally Raising A Sustainable Flock, which was a best seller in it’s Amazon category.  Maat has been featured on NBC, CBS, AOL Finance, Community Chickens, the Huffington Post, Chickens magazine, Backyard Poultry, and Countryside Magazine. She lives on her…

Why Homestead: An Insider’s Look

Why Homestead: An Insider’s Look

  Why homestead. This is the eternal question every homesteader must answer. Why do we do it? Why reinvent the wheel of sorts, why put out the effort? If you ask different homesteaders, “Why Homestead?” their answers are as varied as they are thematic. Usually, it’s something to do with getting back to a simpler life, reducing a…