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    Homesteading

    Ready to start homesteading? Below you'll find everything from how to start beekeeping and tending chickens to nurturing a garden and shepherding woolly sheep.

    Beekeeping

    • A block of bees wax with handmade candles
      Mess-Free DIY Guide to Cleaning and Melting Beeswax
    • Beeswax with dripping honey
      How Do Honey Bees Make Beeswax - The UnBEElievable Process!
    • Drone honeybee trying to enter the hive on a landing board
      Drone Bee: 10 Weird & Fascinating Facts That Will Blow Your Mind
    • A honeybee on a dandelion
      "Bee"ware: The real cost of beekeeping & how to save money
    • Using leaves as beehive insulation
      The best FREE DIY Beehive Insulation for Winter
    • Beekeeping tools
      The 7 Must-Have Hive Tools
    • Six secrets to choosing the best beehive for beginners
    • Benefits of beekeeping
      Top 10 Surprising Benefits of Beekeeping: Why You'd Make a Great Beekeeper

    Raising Sheep

    • Man holding a babydoll lamb
      Babydoll Sheep Supplies: What I Bought & What I'd Skip
    • Two Babydoll Sheep rams standing outside
      Simple Feeding Guide for Healthy Babydoll Sheep
    • Holding a Babydoll lamb
      The Ultimate Guide: English Southdown Babydoll Sheep
    • A livestock guardian dog with babydoll sheep
      Livestock Guardian Dogs: What I Wished I Would Have Known

    Other Farm Animals

    • Top 10 Tips For Raising Chicks
    • How to raise ducks for eggs

    Gardening

    • Peas, zucchini and radish in a garden
      15 Easy Veggies to Grow in Canada - Even for Beginners!
    • Purple raspberries growing on a bush
      How to Choose the Best Raspberry Variety for Your Garden
    • organic vegetables in a wicker basket in a vegetable garden square image
      Top 10 Organic Veggies Anyone Can Grow (Even Beginners!)
    • A huge lemon growing indoors
      How to grow huge lemons indoors
    • How to plant a fruit tree (what not to do)
    • How to Choose Seeds for Your Garden Without Wasting Money
    • How to grow fresh and nutritious microgreens indoors
    • holding raspberries over a raspberry bush
      How to Grow Raspberries from Canes: Planting Guide

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    Babydoll Sheep
    Farm Animals
    Gardening
    • Adorable Babydoll Sheep Standing Outside a Barn
      Raising Babydoll Sheep: 8 Hard Lessons I Wish I Knew Sooner
    • Woman holding lamb
      Death, tears, and life on the homestead
    • How to use soap nuts to clean everything
    • Kids holding a Merry Christmas sign
      How To Have A Merry Simple Christmas (& Spend Less)
    • Milking British Milk Sheep
      How to raise sheep for milk - Dreamers to Dairy Sheep Farmers in 2 years!
    • Wool dryer balls from babydoll sheep
      The Ultimate Guide: Using and Caring for Wool Dryer Balls
    • A carton of eggs
      7 Simple Ways to Tell if Your Eggs Have Gone Bad
    • A tagged queen bee in a hive
      How to find the Queen bee OR Where's Waldo?
    • A chick sitting on top of a hen
      This Month on the Homestead: World's Best Weed Control, New Chicks & Running Mascara
    • A bee swarm in a oak tree
      How to catch a bee swarm for beginners
    • Keep kids entertained
      Keep Kids Entertained and Learning While Stuck at Home
    • Homesteading New Year's Resolutions
      Why Your Homesteading Resolutions Fail (and what to do instead)
    • A million easy steps to convert a stall into a chicken coop
    • 10 books that'll make you a better homesteader
    • Woman holding a small apple
      This summer on the homestead: One apple harvest, bee vomit & saving money on wood
    • preparing for lambing
      A woolly great lambing guide: Your top 20 questions answered
    • This month on the homestead: $5 haircuts, naked bums & too many eggs
    • How to start a farm - City slickers to profitable farmers
    • Starting a Homestead - House Poor to Life Rich
    • How to quickly and easily dry herbs - in the shower
    • 52 Homestead Skills
      52 skills to put under your tree
    • Pumpkin Spiced Peach Sauce
    • Chocolate mint strawberry jam
      Chocolate Mint Strawberry Jam 
    • Quitting your day job to start a farm
    • The bees are coming...
    • Reality check - Real life on the farm
    • Mission: 52 Homesteading Skills in One Year

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    Kimberlee, the author of old walsh farm

    Hi, I'm Kimberlee! Our family bought a homestead in Canada 8 years ago and we haven't looked back. Although it hasn't always been easy, our ordinary, mud and manure-filled lives have been incredibly rewarding.

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      Raising Babydoll Sheep: 8 Hard Lessons I Wish I Knew Sooner
    • Water glassing eggs recipe
      Water Glassing Eggs: Preserve Eggs for 18 Months (No Fridge)
    • Healing Honey Salve Recipe
      Healing Beeswax Salve Recipe (Soothes Dry, Cracked Skin Fast!)
    • A bee swarm in a oak tree
      How to catch a bee swarm for beginners

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