Country Living in a Cariboo Valley

Homesteading in BC

  • How to Get Started
  • Canning
  • Recipes
  • Wild Wine Recipes
  • Spend Less
  • eBooks
    • Delicious Dandelions: A Recipe Collection
    • Dirt to Dollars: Selling at the Farmers Market
    • 8 Pounds in 8 Weeks: Raising Chicks for the Dinner Table
    • Making Wild Wine
    • Build a Hanging Chicken Feeder
    • 15 Things to Know About Living in the Country
  • About Us
  • Work With Me
  • Garlic Sales

The Next Generation of Chicken Farmers

Ever noticed that kids like chickens? At the very least, even if they are a bit nervous, they want to know about the chickens. We love showing off our girls to any kids (or adults) that come along. If we're lucky and we play our cards right, we assimilate a few of them...into chicken farmers. That's right, chicken farmers. We hope they'll have kids of their own one day and they will turn … [Read more...]


Filed Under: Raising ChickensTagged: chickens, hens, laying hens, self sufficiency

Put Your Chickens to Work for You!

Chickens cleaning up a garden bed after harvest.

Did you know that bored chickens are unhealthy chickens? Bored chickens fight with one another, pull feathers out and pick pick pick at each other. Usually the answer to this is to just let them out of the coop and they will run around chasing and eating bugs. There other ways to keep your chickens from boredom and that is to put your chickens to work for you!   Here's how we put … [Read more...]


Filed Under: Raising ChickensTagged: chickens, laying hens

How To Get Started on the Path to Providing for Your Family

Have you been used to buying your groceries at the supermarkets? Never raised animals or had a garden? Are you  trying to figure out how to get started on the path to providing for your family? Have you thought about starting a homestead? It can certainly feel overwhelming just to get started. So think about getting started, but doing it on a small level. Trying to do too much too quickly … [Read more...]


Filed Under: How To, How to Get Started, Raising Chickens, Raising Meat Birds, Raising Weaner PigsTagged: chickens, chicks, Grow Vegetables, hens, How To:, laying hens, Potatoes, Raising Meat Birds, self sufficiency

Connect With Us!

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Search this site

Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Search in posts
Search in pages

Our Most Popular Posts

Step by step instructions on painting that old cheap grooved wood paneling.

How to Paint Wood Paneling

How To Get Started on the Path to Providing for Your Family

Privacy Policy

Read about our Privacy Policy Here

We ship Canada wide!

Naturally Grown from Organic Certified Seed with zero chemicals

Theme Design By Studio Mommy · Copyright © 2019