It never fails. No matter how careful you are, when you use a product like super glue it’s bound to end up where you don’t want it. I’m the world’s messiest super-gluer. If I open a tube you can bet some part of me is going to be glued to another part. I’ve prayed for [...]
I used to hate the term “hobby farm.” I thought it meant we weren’t committed to our land or we were part-timers. Tell that to my back and legs after putting in fence, or chasing the chickens. Again! I realized that the term hobby farm really only means that I’m not as big as 1,000 [...]
A friend of mine is hosting an Easter Egg hunt for adults over at DIY and Save during the month of April. Each egg you find gives you the chance to enter and win a Kindle Touch! A while back Marta hosted a tutorial on making fake breasts, using a homemade latex substance. For the [...]
We’ve been talking about plant propagation a lot around here, mostly because it’s Spring and we are outdoors as much as possible. In past posts I’ve showed you how to propagate blackberries and other plants by tip layering, but that method isn’t always an option. What do you do in cases where you’d like to [...]
We’ve all heard the adage ‘natures way is best.’ When we are talking about blackberry propagation that saying is certainly true. Like many plants of its kind a blackberry plant will begin to grow roots wherever it comes in contact with the ground. What this means for the gardening hobbyist, is that you can grow [...]
We are in the process of building a chicken coop here at Savvy Practicality. We are using recycled materials and planks from our local sawmill. Here are a few pictures of our progress. We started the chicken coop project by building a simple box frame 7ftX 4ft X 4ft. There will be a small addition [...]
Baby chicks are starting to show up at homes across the United States, arriving by mail-order and pick-up at local feed stores and farm supply outlets. Clif and I thought now would be the perfect time to show you how to make your own poultry waterer and feeding trough. Poultry supplies don’t have to be [...]
In a recent post, Is Commodity Killing Us, I talked about arsenic, Roxarsone, in the commercial chicken feeds we buy. While Pfizer, the drug company that produces that specific brand of the drug agreed to stop marketing their product there are several others. The FDA reveals them as “nitarsone, arsanilic acid, and carbarsone.” Since I [...]
Tonight, I am a very upset and disturbed Momma. If we hadn’t had beans and cornbread for dinner, I might even be too sick to write this post. While the information I am about to present may not be new, it was certainly news for us. This afternoon I spent hours on various chick hatchery [...]
How many of you remember our impromptu “Build Your Own Pool” project from last summer? While a very fun a fulfilling project, we’ve been discussing a permanent solution to our family’s swim needs– a Swim Pond. Swim Ponds are natural water features that are virtually self cleaning if installed correctly. A Swim Pond would give [...]
