I have been reading all about the meat shortages we should be getting ready to expect due to meat packing plants closing down especially beef, pork and chicken. Then when I got home I was excited to find

So I am now back at work after being off for a month which for me was really nice. I have never had more then a few days in a row off and with all the projects and the time of the year it was great to

We had another eight new baby rabbits born. These are a few days old so their eyes are not open yet but they are fat and healthy. We use to keep around 25 adult breeders of several different breeds like

This is a run we put in for grape vines I wanted to plant this season. We will put in a total of 10 vines on this run. Each vine can produce around 25 lbs of grapes a season which is a good amount and

So it has been a long time since I did an update on my worm wigwams. We recently moved them into a 32 ft building that has power ran to it and out of the 45 ft shipping container. I have 3 of these CFT

So this morning after feeding the livestock we went out and took around 50 cuttings off a orange tree. The tree is about 5 years old and needs to be cut back in spots so we are going to slowly cut it back

I am mainly making a post to retry posting images again but we are making nice progress here on the homestead getting things done. I have almost finished getting the bottom of the out building insulated

So today was day four of my being home and not working due to the regulations of the virus. It has not hit us very bad yet since when I am home and not working I am in a pretty rural area where I don't

This we be my first post on the new Hive network. I had tried to get in the last few days but I could not get everything to work but it looks like everything is working great now. I am excited to get going.

Got some more stuff done around the house and starting to move more storage into the shipping container to make room in the other buildings and green house to start planting. 7974 Daily Activity

Nice warm day today even after the rain. Looks like it might be a hot summer. Lots of stuff to get done before then. Let's see how this merge with steel and torn goes. 7507 Daily Activity

Nice busy day with the fodder and getting some 6500k lights hanging to increase growth. Should work well and we will see what the growth is by weighing the seeds and the harvested product. 12055 Daily

This is a FodderKing 12-24 fodder system. It is advertised at producing 52 lbs of fodder in each channel and has 24 channels. This means if you soak overnight and can get growth in 6 days you can do 4

I'm going to actually make a post on the fodder one of these days. Working out great since usually we feed 3 bails of hay at night to my 5 cows and they need 2 more in the morning but instead they don't

Got my bulbs in today for my grow lights. Just have to mount them and good to go. Seen a major increase in growth with the 6500 grow lights. 6979 Daily Activity

Got 16 buckets of oat fodder today. Worked out to .50 a bucket compared to a bucket of shelled corn at 2.50 and is much more digestible. 8361 Daily Activity

Fodder is producing fantastic. Still need to insulate, hook up grow lights and temp control the whole building though. Also have to finish electric in the goat pens and get back on the new pig pens. 5427

Still playing with getting the flow.of.the fodder system right for the trays Been trying sunflowers and oats this week. Barley and rye is a little pricey in my a area. 6650 Daily Activity

Nice rainy and cold day with heavy winds. Going to need to do a post on the fodder but next I need to insulate the building for summer and get some raised beds built. 7905 Daily Activity

Nice weather last few days and been getting electric ran on the inside of some fences to move some livestock. Fodder is doing well. 5581 Daily Activity