More and more urban homesteaders are getting curious about raising rabbits. It is often times the ultimate goal to become more self sufficient and rabbits can help with that. In fact they may be one of the easiest and best ways to help you further your self sufficient homestead goals. How so? Why rabbits? Well there are a few reasons why someone might choose to introduce rabbits to the homestead...besides the cute factor. I have a few rabbits myself... giant chinchilla rabbits and red new … [Read more...]
What is a Victory Garden? Do We Need Them Now?
I am kind of fascinated with the idea of victory gardens. They are vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted during world wars l & ll to ensure adequate food supply to the troops and civilians. They were planted at private residences and also public places. Public authorities, businesses, schools and seed companies worked together to grow more vegetables in order to reduce the pressure on the food supply at a critical time in our history. People were asked to produce more of their own … [Read more...]
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