06/13/13

Lighting a Bee Smoker

I want to give credit where it is due, I have spent a lot of time watching the “Fat Bee Man” on YouTube, and I really like how he does stuff. Today’s post is my adaptation of his technique of lighting a bee smoker.

The trick is to get a lot of smoke, but not a lot of heat – which in my experience is not all that easy.
What you need is cardboard strips and wither shredded paper, straw, burlap – or natural baling twine (I uses smoker pellets in mine, but I won’t be reordering them once I use them all up). Continue reading →

06/12/13

New Rabbit Tractor

I am a big fan of chicken tractors, and probably will be until I can actually pasture or free range them. After talking with Paul Wheaton and joining his permaculture forum I started thinking about tractor raising my rabbits.

After researching more, I decided to try it. I built a new tractor, and made it more conducive to rabbits by making the floor with wooden slats rather than wire. Continue reading →

06/11/13

Spring 2013 Homestead Update

This is about the fourth year we have been raising some of our own food, and while each year we get a little better, this year we are cutting back a little and trying to conserve some of our time. We are focused on trying to learn the layout of our future homestead, so instead of having a lot of experiments at our home, we are focusing on what we have some success with. Continue reading →

06/10/13

Homemade Taco Shell

Tacos are a very easy meal to make, and they can be pretty inexpensive also. In today’s article we will show how easy it is to make your own taco shells.

In the video below we use store bought corn tortillas, but we have done articles in the past about how to make your own tortillas for an even cheaper meal. Continue reading →