Featured Stories
Food Preservation History
Learn about food preservation history and the natural ways to preserve meat while retaining nutritional value and flavor. Read More
Types of Sheep Cheese
Different types of sheep cheeses are made from sheep milk, and many of them are familiar to the average consumer and traditionally made from dairy sheep. Read More
Tails from the Trails: A Hike and a Hunt
Follow Nathan Putnam and his pack goat string as they take us hiking, camping, and hunting in the backcountry of northern Idaho. Read More
Homemade Electrolytes to Combat Heat Exhaustion In Chickens
Heat exhaustion in chickens, heat stroke, or even death is a very real danger to chickens when temperatures rise. They don't sweat like humans do, and are somewhat limited in their ability to cool down. Read More
Help Chickens Keep Their Cool
Some people love a summer heat wave, or for that matter, sweating it out in a sauna. Not chickens. For our feathered friends, steamy summer days — which are increasing, due to climate change — can mean trouble. Read More
It’s HOT Out There!
As summer heats up, it is a good time to think about protecting our birds from the extreme heat we can expect over the next few months. Heat can have a very detrimental effect on birds. Poultry do not sweat to provide cooling. Read More
Is It a Rooster? How To Sex Backyard Chickens
Unless you're trained in baby chick identification and sexing, or you bought a sex linked variety, you won't be able to tell until your backyard chickens begin to mature. Read More
Polish Green-Legged Partridge Chicken
A once-common landrace fowl, the Green-legged Partridge developed its own treasure trove of genetic material through natural selection and breeding. The fowl were known to be hardy, independent, and able to forage for most of their own food. Read More
Marketing Your Honey
Marketing and selling surplus honey takes a bit more than word of mouth if you have more than a few gallons to sell. So, here’s a primer on how to start marketing and selling your surplus honey this season. Read More
Steps for Successfully Filtering Beeswax
We have tried several ways of filtering beeswax and our favorite way is to filter the wax on the stove top. Read More
Plants that Attract Predatory Insects
Support a variety of pollinating insects, including those that parasitize and predate garden pests, by planting plants that attract predatory insects. Read More
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