Tag: homestead
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Building a Wiki Up with the Girls
This weekend, we took a break from the usual routine and built something together in the woods, a small wiki up made from downed limbs and brush around the homestead. If you’re not familiar with the term, a wiki up is a type of brush shelter traditionally used by some Indigenous peoples of the American…
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Building Cluckr: A Simple App for the Homestead
Most of the time, I try to keep things simple out here. But a few weeks ago I ran into something that felt unnecessarily complicated: tracking our chickens. Egg counts, chick care schedules, coop cleaning, feed costs all scribbled across too many notebooks and spreadsheets. It worked, but barely. So I decided to do something…