American FarmSteadHers~ Your Homesteading & Gardening Podcast

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That's a wrap on the Summer garden around here, which only means we're in our favorite planting season of the Winter garden. What's going in, how to fertilize, cleaning out, prepping, ground cover, plant varieties... learn more at https://americanfarmsteadhers.com/

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Fall is here and Winter is coming! What are we planting? What are we sowing? How are we doing it? Listen in to a practical garden chat for tips and tricks to growing all the food.

This week, Jenny and Donna go through some of what they're dealing with in training their milk cows on their small farms.

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This week, we're finishing that list of the top 40 skills that will help you up your game on your homestead. No matter where you are on your journey in this homestead life, there's something here that you can learn. Plus, we give a few of our own additional skills to think about.

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Listen in to this week's episode of the podcast, and hear all about what the gals learned on their own homesteads this week. Bull drama, a sick dairy cow, garden readiness and more are all part of this week's discussion on The American FarmsteadHers Podcast.

We're speaking with Sharlynn with Square Roots Microgreens this week! She gives us the details on what microgreens are, why we need them in our lives, and how to get started. This is an amazing way for the American FarmsteadHer to work alongside her husband to create additional income.

Jenny and Donna discuss their preparedness plans ahead of Hurricane Idalia. At the time of recording, the storm was about 48 hours out from affecting both homesteads, but the storm shifted west, sparing them of the worst. You should know that both farms and families are just fine. This episode is full of tips to help you prepare for a storm too.

This week, we're talking new cows, birthing calves, shopping rams, killing grass, heat stress, starting seeds, and more, we're focusing our time, energy and hearts on home!

Do you have self doubt in your homestead journey? Has someone told you that homesteading is too ____ for you? Fear not. We're here to encourage you to try it anyway. We're also speaking to those of you seasoned homesteaders who have the ability to serve the newbies on today's episode of Homestead Encouragement.

This week, Jenny and Donna catch up on how they're handling the heat of the summer on the homestead in Florida. With heat indexes hitting over 110 daily, there's isn't much outside work getting done.

What's the next right thing that you can do to grow your homestead? Join this week's chat as we help you figure out what you can do to expand what you're growing at home.

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Here's how we'd start a small backyard, homestead garden now. We're giving you practical tips on how to decide what kind of garden might work for you, location, soil, mulch, and more. Enjoy listening to us chat about our very favorite part of the homestead!

This week, we're discussing the transition period between garden seasons here in Florida. It's much too hot for some of our favorite growing, so its out with the old. But we're not quite ready to bring in the new. We're flipping garden beds as we dream for growing in cooler temps.

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Crispy Pickles https://youtu.be/M5Vi5Amzluc

Canning Potatoes https://youtu.be/pCHtR2hZl2o

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Liming Eggs https://youtu.be/97Uk6Yx_vAE

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We chose this! Remember how badly you wanted it? Hang on to that feeling because you're going to come up against seasons that you want to pass quickly. But they don't. Choosing to Homestead means choosing to live further from town, it means flies and manure, and it means ridiculously busy seasons so your hard work doesn't go wasted.

Join our conversation with The Compost Fairry, Crystal, as we learn how to make fast, easy compost. Go follow her on Instagram, Tik Tok, and You Tube for some real entertaining education!

We're stepping onto our soap box for just a minute, yall! We have some examples of what to expect when you gather real food from you homesteads for the first time. Real food is quiet different from factory farmed meats and veggies. We're talking raw milk, unwashed eggs, and even worms in your berries...What to expect and how to handle it so that you can reconnect with your food source.

This week has been quite eventful on both of our homesteads with highs and lows. Listen in to the shenanigans caused by bulls, sheep, and even husbands this week on the podcast.

You've heard how we keep chickens as livestock, for the sole purpose of growing food. But we've heard there's a flip side to chicken-keeping. Listen in to the conversation with Nikki Husted and hear all about the basic needs, bonding, and fun that raising chickens can be for your small homestead.

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Listen in as we chat all about what is going in the spring and summer garden. From what varieties we are planting to succession sowing plans!

Learning how to make compost sounds scary to many homesteaders. Afterall, it is another skill that we seem to have lost over the last few generations. It doesn't have to be hard. We're here to tell you how to quickly finish compost for your home garden.

How can you better keep up with all that has to be accomplished on your homestead? This week, we're sharing how doing the next right thing can help you stay ahead of the game on your homestead. From putting in place efficient systems to taking a rest on the porch, we hope you find some encouraging ways to keep going.

These are our essential garden tools, pest control options, fertilizers, and tips for the Spring Garden. We touch on companion planting, seed starting, garden bed preparation, and some of the things we do to garden more efficiently.

We're catching up on an early calving, milking, escape pigs, butchering, and sick lambs. Phew! Farm life leaves us with full plates, but its always good.

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We catching up on all the Spring farm stuff this week, from starting seeds to tanning hides, listen to all the fun we're currently having on our farms.

Meet American Farmsteadher, Sarah, who shares her story of homesteading on a small scale in an urban neighborhood. She explains how she's making her homestead work with what she has, and where she's at, using renewable resources.

Welcome Emily from Bridge Acres Farm to the podcast this week! Emily is a sought after dairy goat breeder local to us. She gives us many thoughts for the homesteader considering adding goats to her homestead.

Join us today as we talk about all the things you can do now to prepare for a successful spring and summer garden.

What does the farmher do when there's a livestock emergency on the farm? She should be able to reach into her organized box of meds and supplies to efficiently treat the animal. However, that's not always the case because you don't know what you don't know. Experience wins in these situations, but if you haven't come across every situation that can possibly happen, you don't know how to be prepared. Find a good vet and a good mentor for each part of your farm. A cow mentor, a sheep mentor, a chicken mentor, and so on.

Jenny asks the questions as someone interested in a future dairy cow, and Donna answers with her experience. We go over the very basics of looking for and keeping a family dairy cow on the homestead.

We're talking all about our 2023 Farm plans, from gardens to calves and lambs, and everything in between. Cheers to fun on the farm in the New Year!

We are taking a break from our break to wrap up 2022! Here are our great take-aways from the year on our farms...what we've learned and what we've done. We also touch on what's going on right now and our holiday meal plans.

We're catching up with one another this week and discussing all of the fun farm happenings we each have going on. From artificial insemination to chasing jumping sheep, join us in the conversation of farming like girls.

These are the homestead essentials to keep our farms running smoothly.

Check out our Homestead Kitchen Essentials that we love to keep on hand for our working kitchens. Afterall, this homestead life revolves around preparing wholesome, fresh foods. These are the things that make cooking and preserving the harvests easier on us busy farmsteadhers.

Fall in love with gardening again after the hot summer has passed! We're talking about how our Fall gardens are starting out, from what seeds we're starting to planting fruit trees, and you know we can't miss an opportunity to mention compost.

We had the pleasure of spending the day at ScrubFest 2022, held at Scrubland Farmz in Ft. McCoy, FL. Here are some excellent tips that we took away after hearing David the Good and Mark Bailey speak. Thank you, Sam Singleton at Scrubland Farmz for hosting this fun-filled and informative event! We'll be back!

We're convincing you to raise some pigs as a small scale protein source. Join us in the world of pigs.

We're preparing for a possible hurricane coming our way. Here are the things we need to do in addition to preparing our homes for the storm and extended power outage.

We're just catching up this week before a much needed break on the podcast. Plus, we answer your question, "Is your beef grass-fed?"

We are answering your question, "How do you teach your kids about life and death on the farm?"

This week, we're taking a self-sufficiency survey to see how we measure. Follow along and the answer the same questions for yourself, then listen to how the ultimate Farmsteadher, Mama's Mama, did it everyday.

We're hitting all of the little things happening on our homesteads this week; from the importance of handling animals to starting Fall seeds.

We're catching up on a little farm talk, but really focusing on starting seeds this week. From summer to winter plants, here are all the details you need to start seeds.

Summer is over! Just kidding, but it IS time to get the Fall garden going. We're talking soil testing, ripping out summer garden beds, planning, seeds, and more.

We want you to raise meat chickens for your family. From mail ordering chicks to butchering, you can put a lot of protein on the table in a little bit of time.

Follow the discussion on how we react to loss on the farm.

It's super hot, but we're looking forward to the Fall garden. This is just a quickie, touching base on the very minimal things to do right now in the Summer garden. We'll be back with full conversation next week with details from each of our farms.

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Hey yall, we missed sharing the farm conversation with you after an impromptu break. Thank you so much for sticking with us while Donna tended to some family needs. So we're back, and we're catching up on as much fun farm talk as we can squeeze into an episode. We intended to talk pressure canning, but we rabbit-trailed too far. Sorry about that! We hope you enjoy it still.

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Preserving the homestead - What's that mean? It's so much more than preserving food. In general, we should aim to preserve or use it all up until its gone. It's a way to live frugally on the farm so that we aren't wasting anything.

Jenny and Donna share some of the joys and challenges of homestead life. You can enjoy the rewards of your very homestead too with a little forethought and hard work.

Hey, American FarmsteadHers! We're swamped between mom life and farm life, and a break is needed. We can't wait to get back to you next week with Episode 14! Thanks for your support!

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We're taking a shortcut this week and updating you on our gardens, with some rabbit trails about our farms.

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We’re talking about raising chickens for eggs this week. From choosing breeds to coop needs, we’ve got all of the information you need to start your chicken-rearing journey!

Time to catch up! In this episode, we talk about some of the time and money logistics of running a small farm. Stay tuned until the end to hear some of the new, exciting things we will be offering to keep our farms a float!

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