Silver homestead

Click through for 27 awesome homesteading skills to learn for beginners... for when you're homestead dreaming! Get ahead of the game and learn some of these homestead skills before you ever have an actual homestead.

Take a peek inside our cute cottage-style country chicken coop! Tiny House Meets Chicken Coop My husband is a talented hobby carpenter who generously offered to build any chicken coop I wanted. I would Google “white chicken coop” and positively drool over the magazine-like images. What I truly wanted was a chicken coop that could […]

Here is how to get cleaner laid eggs in your nest box using 3 simple tricks that produce results quickly for both eating and hatching eggs!

Here are pictures & scale weights of the stunning speckled blue eggs from rare but beautiful Jumbo Celadon Coturnix quail!

Want to know what chicken laid that blue, green or speckled egg? Here are labeled pictures of chicken egg colors by breed!

Trying to decide between keeping standard Coturnix quail or jumbos? Wondering how much jumbo quail actually eat and how big their eggs really are? We will walk you through all the pros and cons for each size bird to help make the decision process easier! Here is the ultimate compare and contrast on Standard vs […]

The farm grosses six figures annually and feeds more than 200 families through CSA shares and farmer's markets. Only 1.5 acres of land are cultivated in permanent beds.

All my best tips, tricks, freebies and downloads intended to help everyone who wants to breed colored egg laying chickens:

Homestead ideas for your urban homestead. A great place to start your backyard farm.

Browse our collection of scans from Antique Books showing chicken feed mix recipes and nutritional values for each seed & grain so you can craft your own backyard laying hen blends: