When people start making plans to move to the country or to grow more of their own food, many start planning to bring a family cow into their lives. A pastoral scene is etched in the minds of many homesteaders, and that picture usually contains a contented cow grazing lush pastures, and the cow comes when [...]
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Is a family cow for you?
Posted in Animal Husbandry, Raising Animals, tagged family cow, homestead cow on February 13, 2009 | 19 Comments »
Homesteading 101
On Fidays will try to explore some of the challenges people face when starting out on a homesteading adventure or when adding new skills to their lives. That doesn’t mean that we think we have all the answers. WE DON’T! But, collectively, we have tried a lot of different things. Many of them haven’t worked, and we will try to share those things too. We hope this becomes a great conversation, with readers and guest writers filling in the bits we have no experience with. We also hope it becomes a resource for folks who are just starting out and for those of us looking for new ideas. If there are topics you would like to explore let us know by emailing us at notdabbling@yahoogroups.com.Authors
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