www.backyardchickens.com ---will work for your ducks---not just chickens. They also have sister sites at the bottom of the forums page about many other things small farm/self sufficient related. I get countryside as well--nice magazine.
Tom
DH and I like these better than mother earth news...less commercialized (they're even still black and white inside) and less propaganda.
Homesteader news, the modern homesteader and homestead.org are others I've marked for further perusing but haven't gotten around to yet.
We've just decided we're going to raise our own ducks for eggs, our own produce (year-round greenhouse(s) preferably), bees, and possibly goats and rabbits so I have a ton of research ahead of me! I'd love suggestions for websites on any of those topics.
p.s. dh was a beekeeper in the Portland, OR area before we met so that area is fairly covered, but if anyone has ideas/suggestions/experience with keeping bees in a very rainy area and how to avoid dyssentary, we're all ears.
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www.backyardchickens.com---wi
Thu, 2009-05-07 22:37
www.backyardchickens.com ---will work for your ducks---not just chickens. They also have sister sites at the bottom of the forums page about many other things small farm/self sufficient related. I get countryside as well--nice magazine.
Tom
Good Forum
I read their Bread and Grain forums all the time. I learned a ton there about milling my own flour and baking.
this article
This article is also very nice read
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/lee115.html
another suggested website for self-sufficiency
Backwoods home is great and I recently ran across Countryside too: http://www.countrysidemag.com/
DH and I like these better than mother earth news...less commercialized (they're even still black and white inside) and less propaganda.
Homesteader news, the modern homesteader and homestead.org are others I've marked for further perusing but haven't gotten around to yet.
We've just decided we're going to raise our own ducks for eggs, our own produce (year-round greenhouse(s) preferably), bees, and possibly goats and rabbits so I have a ton of research ahead of me! I'd love suggestions for websites on any of those topics.
p.s. dh was a beekeeper in the Portland, OR area before we met so that area is fairly covered, but if anyone has ideas/suggestions/experience with keeping bees in a very rainy area and how to avoid dyssentary, we're all ears.