Tools, skills, and ideas from a working homestead

We raise chickens, run worm bins, build coops, and carve gourds. Every guide comes from doing it ourselves.

Backyard chickens

Everything from choosing your first breed to managing molt, predator-proofing your coop, and keeping hens laying through winter.

How to set up a worm bin, what to feed red wigglers, harvest castings, brew worm tea, and sell what your worms produce.

The permit requirements, labeling rules, city flock limits, and sales caps for selling backyard eggs in every US state.