Homesteading Hacks, Tips & Tricks

We've got lots of homestead tips from years of experience livin this homestead life!

• Keep your hay twine from your hay bales!

Hay twine comes in handy for so many things, once you start using it, you won't know how you lived without it before!

• Keep zip ties on hand plus wire cutters for those times when you need to mend fences quickly or other homestead issues.
• Start small....your homestead will evolve and grow with you as you gain more experience. Don't start too big to where you're overwhelmed with too many animals or too many obligations.
• Know your climate. It may seem obvious, but you have to know how to prepare your property and animals for your specific climate.
• Know you will make mistakes and things will go wrong AANNNDDDD.....that's ok! You gotta learn how to crawl before you can walk, right?
• If you have kids, give them age appropriate tasks to do while you are getting your farm chores done.
• Install lights where you know you sometimes on your homestead at night. Solar lights for pathways, battery operated motion lights for places electricity can't reach, and electrical lights for sides of houses, barns and other buildings.
• You need to have an evacuation plan in place for fire, and any other natural disaster. Have small crates cleaned, ready and accessible for small indoor animals. Have a trailer ready for larger farm animals and animals that NEED to be taken with you. (Animals that can run fast have a much better chance at getting away from a disaster vs an animal who can't run...like a tortoise or a pig. You can also write your phone number with a sharpie marker on hooves of cows and horses or write your phone on the fur with spray paint.
• Make sure your water pipes are secure. Unsecured water pipes sticking out of the ground can be easily broken

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