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Are Pumpkin Seeds a Natural Dewormer for Chickens?

Homemade Anti-Parasitic Tincture for Livestock

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For years, I’ve talked about fragile supply chains

For years, I’ve talked about fragile supply chains, rising input costs, foreign dependence, and the vulnerabilities built into our modern food system.

Now, the USDA has confirmed the first domestic case of New World Screwworm in a Texas calf. The screw worm is a parasite that is flesh eating in nature.

If you’ve listened to my interview with AJ Richards, you may remember him sounding the alarm about this months ago. Many people dismissed it as just another agricultural issue happening somewhere south of the border. But AJ explained something important—this is a food system concern, and it could cause a collapse of the already historically low beef herd in the USA.

These farmers are already facing years of drought, high feed costs, regulatory pressure, and economic uncertainty. When breeding stock leaves the system, rebuilding takes years—not months.

Now add a parasite that can rapidly spread through livestock populations and historically cost producers enormous losses. It may not affect the local small farmer who can monitor his herds easier (and probably has healthier herds). But it will absolutely affect bigger herds that are already struggling.

This is why I continually encourage people to think beyond the grocery store. The big ag food system is not one giant crisis away from collapse. It’s thousands of small pressures accumulating at the same time. Together, they create a system that becomes increasingly expensive, increasingly centralized, and increasingly vulnerable.

Know your local farmer, raise some of your own food, learn skills, build community networks, and create resilient local food economies before they’re needed.

This is why so many of us have spent years talking about food sovereignty and homesteading. Not because we expect disaster around every corner, but because history repeatedly shows that resilient communities weather storms better than dependent ones.

Whether it’s pest, drought, inflation, fertilizer shortages, disease, or a disruption we haven’t seen yet, the lesson remains the same—the future belongs to communities that can feed themselves. And every year, that lesson becomes harder to ignore.

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I have nothing to say.

Just a pretty photo dump for old time IG sake.

The era where we followed homesteaders and farmers because their content was beautiful and practical and took us to a peaceful place.

This is my peaceful place.

Most homesteaders raise meat chickens. Very few e

Most homesteaders raise meat chickens.

Very few ever stop to ask, “What happens if I can’t buy chicks next year?”

For generations, families didn’t depend on hatcheries to fill their freezer. They developed breeding systems that allowed them to raise meat birds year after year, right from their own homestead.

That’s exactly why we began experimenting with a two-breed meat chicken system.

The goal isn’t to compete with a Cornish Cross. You can’t compete when it comes to saving time and money. The goal is resilience.

A good breeding program allows you to maintain your own flock, hatch your own chicks, improve genetics over time, and continue producing quality meat birds without relying on outside sources. It puts one more piece of your food security back into your own hands.

This approach combines the strengths of two different breeds—one contributing growth and carcass qualities, the other contributing fertility, mothering ability, hardiness, and long-term sustainability. The result is a practical system that can provide meat chickens year-round while allowing you to retain breeding stock for future generations.

If you’ve ever wondered how homesteaders raised meat chickens before modern hatcheries, or if you’ve been looking for a more sustainable long-term poultry plan, this article is for you. It utilizes modern Cornish cross broilers, while having a dual-purpose system back up.

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Mullein is one of those herbs that often gets over

Mullein is one of those herbs that often gets overlooked—growing wild along fence rows, in pastures, and even in places most people would call “weedy.” But for generations, it has been one of the most beloved herbs for the lungs, respiratory support, and overall herbal wellness.

Its soft, velvety leaves and tall flower stalk are easy to spot once you know what you’re looking for—and once you learn how to use it, you may never walk past it the same way again.

Mullein has traditionally been used to:

🌿 Support the lungs and respiratory tract
🌿 Encourage the body to clear mucus naturally
🌿 Soothe irritated throats
🌿 Infuse into oil for ear support
🌿 Dry and preserve for teas, tinctures, and the herbal cabinet

And one of my favorite things about it? It grows abundantly and asks for very little.

There’s something deeply beautiful about learning the plants around us—what they are, how to harvest them well, and how God designed creation with so much practical goodness right in our own fields and gardens.

If mullein grows near you, this is your sign to get familiar with it.

Read the full article on my website, and learn how to identify it, grow it, harvest it, and start using it in your herbal routine.

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High blood pressure can be due to many different t

High blood pressure can be due to many different things. I have always prided myself in coming from generations of people who have high blood pressure (HBP), yet not having it myself. We eat cleaner than most of society. I incorporate herbs in most of my diet. And we live very cleanly when it comes to using chemicals in products like soaps and farm products.

So imagine my surprise when the midwife realized I was dealing with HBP during the last few weeks of my pregnancy with our fourth child.

Looking back on my pregnancy with our third child, I actually believe I was beginning to struggle then with this issue, but it didn’t pop up until days after I delivered.

In this article, I’m using myself as a client “case”, and will show you how I was able to support my body with herbs, hydration, and nutrition during this time. I’ll also share how important it is to support your body before, during, and after pregnancy so that you may help prevent HBP, pre-eclampsia, and postpartum pre-eclampsia.

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