Building a New Homestead with Tim & Liz Young|Farming | Homesteading

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Moving to a new homestead you get to start with a clean slate. So how do you decide what you need? This week, Liz and I share what animals and infrastructure we settled on for our new homestead.

Listen in as we discuss our animal and food choices:

What breed of pigs we settled on, and why

Cows, both dual purpose and specific breeds for beef and milk

Meat chickens

Hens

German Shepherds versus Anatolian or Great Pyrenees

Top bar hives and bees

Garden area requirements

We also cover all the infrastructure and building we've done in the past year, including:

Raised bed Hugelkultur garden (click here for pics)

Building a tall fence to keep deer out of the orchard/garden

Integrating a play area into the garden space (click here for pics)

Creating a medicinal herb garden

Adding a metal building workshop

Milling lumber and building a barn with hay feeder (click here for pics)

Building deer blinds

Building a dual dog house with center "warm" area

Building shelves (so many shelves!) for pantry, craft area and homeschool room

Building a homeschool room with bookcases, tables, etc

And building a woodland trail and survival practice area (click here for pics)

It was a fun discussion and I hope you enjoy it and find that it gives you a lot to think about as you prepare for your self-sufficient life. So grab some coffee and pull up a chair!