It's Picture Time Again!
Folks tell us that they love seeing the photos from around the Homestead. Our other photo posts have done so well that we thought we might make this a regular series.
Here was our last photo series in case you wanted to take a look.
https://steemit.com/photography/@mericanhomestead/pictures-from-an-off-grid-homestead-sugar-cane-tomatoes-and-more
PICTURE 1
This is our outdoor kitchen that we use for all of our summer and fall canning activities. We will roughly put up 500 or more jars of food this year in this kitchen plus process other goodies like Sugar Cane syrup and meat preservation.
PICTURE 2
Jaimie is holding two jars of peach jam that we canned after visiting a local peach orchard this year. We picked two full bushels (4 baskets) worth of peaches and canned them 2 different ways. Our peach trees on the homestead are not yet old enough to bear fruit but soon that day will come.
PICTURE 3
This is a true delicacy on the homestead. These are venison and lamb hard salami sticks that are just about finished smoking in the cold smoker on the homestead. We only make these in the winter as the cold temps allow the meat to cure. After smoking, they hang for at least 2 months in the house pantry and they are ready to eat. You never have to refrigerate them!
PICTURE 4
This is the homestead chicken coop just after it was built. This is one of the first things we built once we moved on the homestead because having an active and growing flock means food production and that cuts grocery costs. Farm raised eggs and meat and we always allow our chicks to go broody so they hatch out a new flock every year to replace other aging birds.
PICTURE 5
The Guinea coop was probably the first thing that got built once we moved on the land. My father in law built this coop to house our guinea birds. We had tons of ticks and chiggars on the homestead and guinea hens will clean all of them out in short order. So building this coop was a top priority. Today, you have to really search for a tick to find one.
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