It's Picture Time Again!
Folks tell us that they love seeing the photos from around the Homestead. Our other photo posts have done so well that we thought we might make this a regular series.
Here was our last photo series in case you wanted to take a look.
https://steemit.com/photography/@mericanhomestead/pictures-from-an-off-grid-homestead-sugar-cane-tomatoes-and-more
PICTURE 1
This is our outdoor kitchen that we use for all of our summer and fall canning activities. We will roughly put up 500 or more jars of food this year in this kitchen plus process other goodies like Sugar Cane syrup and meat preservation.
PICTURE 2
Jaimie is holding two jars of peach jam that we canned after visiting a local peach orchard this year. We picked two full bushels (4 baskets) worth of peaches and canned them 2 different ways. Our peach trees on the homestead are not yet old enough to bear fruit but soon that day will come.
PICTURE 3
This is a true delicacy on the homestead. These are venison and lamb hard salami sticks that are just about finished smoking in the cold smoker on the homestead. We only make these in the winter as the cold temps allow the meat to cure. After smoking, they hang for at least 2 months in the house pantry and they are ready to eat. You never have to refrigerate them!
PICTURE 4
This is the homestead chicken coop just after it was built. This is one of the first things we built once we moved on the homestead because having an active and growing flock means food production and that cuts grocery costs. Farm raised eggs and meat and we always allow our chicks to go broody so they hatch out a new flock every year to replace other aging birds.
PICTURE 5
The Guinea coop was probably the first thing that got built once we moved on the land. My father in law built this coop to house our guinea birds. We had tons of ticks and chiggars on the homestead and guinea hens will clean all of them out in short order. So building this coop was a top priority. Today, you have to really search for a tick to find one.
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Wonderful info on ticks and guineas. I'm gonna facebook share this post to my patient support group. I'm a homeopath and I deal with SO many cases of Lyme disease [in all stages]. It's tick season right now and this is one way some of those folks can think to decrease the numbers of ticks on their homesteads. Right now I recommend them a dose of ledum 30c weekly for each member of the family and domestic animals as a preventative. :-)
I don't really believe in homeoprophylaxis [I can't work out how that would work, but my mind is open if someone wants to come up with a logical mechanism], but I think this weekly dose acts by treating Lyme in its very early stages. I've had two daughters [of my 4] with Lyme. http://sallylloydhomeopathy.com/homeopathic-ledum-as-first-aid-treatment-for-lyme-borreliosis-disease/ tells our story with Lyme and a little more about how to use Ledum. xx
GREAT! Here is an article on our website we published. They really decimate the tick population. They are a bit noisy at times but they are wonderful totally eliminating ticks on your homestead. https://anamericanhomestead.com/get-rid-of-ticks-guaranteed/
Excellent! I'll read and pass that on. 😄
Nice post, I plan to check out your website as well. I am currently raising egg chickens and pan to do bees next year. Just installed new fencing for the chickens today. I had a few jumpers that could clear the old fence.
Yeah they will jump...no doubt about it. They jump higher than rabbits in my opinion.
Did you hear that they are making those round hay bails illegal? ... The animals aren't getting 3 square meals a day! haaaa :D :D :D Nice post
HAR HAR HAR!!! Good one....I'll be sure to use that with my neighbors!
Really like the outside kitchen. One of my friends built one for his mother and liked it so much he built his wife one, at least he says it's for his wife.
Yeah, its really a benefit in the heat of the summer. We don't have AC so doing our cooking and canning outside is a lot cooler in the heat. Especially in the shade.
Love the car with the hay bale. My truck is imobile at the moment so we got square bales in the suburban. My wife hates it, but the homestead must live to see another day, right?
You just have to make it happen somehow. The animals must eat!
LOVE the outdoor kitchen! I'm jelly, but in a good way ;0)
I like that outdoor kitchen. I could use that.
You guys sure have some great buildings.
your hay meme is hilarious!
guinea's eat chiggars? I'm getting some, was collecting blackberries 3 weeks ago and got chiggars, horrible!!! I let my chickens out to free range it a couple times a week but they dont do much except scratch around the garden.
Everything looks great, my city friends think I lost my mind when I went "rural" but it's a great life!!
I really like the outdoor kitchen, my grandmother always canned in the summer the same way.
Nice post so I vote you
Oh, very interesting, and I would love to have some of the peach jam.
It taste awesome! We give some away every once in a while on our Saturday night podcasts!
Love this thank you for sharing. Keep em coming.
Good evening Zac and family, .. after having watched the video for the outside kitchen in which Jamie showed us everything about the kitchen it gave me an idea for an addition for my future homestead... I was thinking of adding an outdoor family dining area would be great next to an outdoor kitchen. It would also provide more table space for use during canning season as well .. Keep the content comming on here Zac, i love your content...and love that my upvotes help contribute to your family. that is one thing about Sttemit that i like over youtube... my imput directly helps content providers regardless of advertizer revinue and algorythyms... Would also love to see you get the Greenhouse and aquaponics system back up and running. That is something that i am really interested in and believe that if the fish were given more space you could really up the harvest of fish while growing in the winter for fresh greens... as always, thank you for the time and effort to bring us the content.