Building a New Homestead with Tim&Liz Young|Farming|Homesteading - a podcast by Tim Young: SmallFarmNation.com

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.

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Welcome to Episode 19! This week Liz and I candidly discuss how we settled on what we needed on our homestead.Listen in as we discuss our animal and food choices:

What breed of pigs we settled on, and whyCows, both dual purpose and specific breeds for beef and milk
Meat chickensHens
German Shepherds versus Anatolian or Great PyreneesTop bar hives and bees
Garden area requirementsWe 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 workshopMilling lumber and building a barn with hay feeder (click here for pics)
Building deer blindsBuilding a dual dog house with center"warm"area
Building shelves (so many shelves!) for pantry, craft area and homeschool roomBuilding 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!
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