Living off of two acres… Pasture Restoration, Dairy Sheep, Food Production
GSM stands for Grand Solar Minimum. As we enter into a significant GSM, and see our magnetosphere weakening, it just makes sense to prep for it. Expect crop failures leading to shortages. What you can grow will help you bridge the food scarcity that is likely in our future.
I am growing more of this grain than anything else right now. It’s an easy grower for me. It’s good in drought and poor soil which I generally have plenty of. In the grass family and related to corn, sorghum is a very small grain. One plant can produce enough seed to plant an acre. […]
In North Texas, the winters are fairly mild. We’re zone 8a so the coldest it gets is high teens in January or February. But even that is too cold for potatoes. I had started growing potatoes in October (late but I had gotten busy with other projects) and was hoping that the row covers over […]
Next week my sheep will come to live our their lives on our homestead. We’re getting two pregnant ewes who should deliver end of March. These are East Friesian crosses bred for milking. Sheep’s milk is more nutritious than bovine (cow) or goat milk. It has more protein and, over all, more vitamins and minerals. […]
I have been dreaming of dairy sheep for close to a year. I had wanted to get mini cows but the ever wise husband talked me into something a bit smaller yet. In researching dairy sheep I found that in blind tastings, people selected it over cow or goat milk. We have coyotes and other […]