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• Overview
  • Food Independence
    • “What Can You Do with Two Acres (or Less)?”
    • “Our Tastes Are Simple”

    • “The Integrated Homestead” (The “flagship” article of this website)

    • “Achieving Food Independence on the Modern Homestead”
  • Elsewhere in the Homestead
    • “Responses on Mother Earth News Forum”
  • The Coming Storm
    • “How We Eat. . .”
    • “Industrial Food and Its Discontents”
    • “James Howard Kunstler's Forecast for 2009”
• Grow It!
  • Soil Care
    • “Soil Ecology: The Basics of Fertility”
    • “Soil Care Basics: Increasing Organic Matter and Mineral Availability”
    • “Soil Care Basics: Protecting Soil Structure with Alternatives to Tillage”
    • “Effects of Excessive Tillage”
  • Composting
    • “The Lazy Gardener’s Compost Heap”
    • “The Boxwood Vermicomposting System”
    • “Black Soldier Fly, White Magic”
  • Garden
    • “A Few Thoughts on Organic Gardening”
    • “Growing and Using Medicinal Herbs”
    • “The Joys of Cover Cropping”
    • “Four Outstanding Cover Crops for Summer”
    • “Harvey’s Cover Crop Talk”
    • “Insects in the Garden”
  • The Homestead Greenhouse
    • “Greenhouse Basics”
    • “Growing in the Winter Greenhouse”
    • “Crops for the Winter Greenhouse”
    • “Chickens and Worms in the Greenhouse”
    • “A Hotbox for Super-Early Spring Plants”
  • The Homestead Orchard
  • Forest Garden
    • “Starting an Edible Forest Garden”
  • Living Fences
    • “Multifunctional Living Fences”
  • Fungi as Allies in the Homestead and Farm
    • “Fungi in the Homestead and Farm Ecology”
    • “Cultivating Mushrooms”
    • “Resources for Working with Fungi”
  • Homestead Tools
    • “With Scythe and Cart and Broadfork: A Meditation on Tool Use”
    • “Completing the Tool Kit”
    • “A Handcrafted Broadfork”
    • “The Scythe: Historic Tool on the Modern Homestead”
• Livestock
  • Livestock Overview
    • “Eating Meat: The Moral Question”
  • Poultry in the Homestead
    • Poultry Overview
      • “The Home Flock for Beginners”
      • “Poultry 101: Starting a Small Flock of Chickens”
      • “Poultry Husbandry in a Changed Energy Future”
      • “The Homestead Flock: Pets or Partners?”
      • “Moral Puzzles in the Backyard”
      • “The Industrial Broiler System: A Brief Debate”
      • “Icelandic Chickens: My Ideal Homestead Flock”
    • Feeding the Homestead Flock
      • “Feeding the Homestead Flock: It Ain't Rocket Science!”
      • “Making Your Own Poultry Feeds”
      • “Feeding the Flock from the Homestead's Own Resources”
      • “Alternatives to Soy”
      • “Sprouting to Enhance Poultry Feeds”
      • “Current Feeding Practice”
      • “The Challenge of High Feed Costs”
      • “Raising Earthworms to Feed the Flock”
      • “Protein from Thin Air: Breeding fly maggots for poultry feed”
      • “Cultivating Soldier Grubs to Feed the Flock”
      • “Feeding the Flock from Home Resources”
    • Housing the Flock
      • “When Life Gives You Lemons. . .”
      • “Making a Dustbox for the Poultry House”
      • “Discouraging the Rodents”
      • “Chickens in the Winter Greenhouse”
    • Pasturing the Flock
      • “Managing Poultry on Pasture with Electronet”
      • “Designing a Pasture Shelter”
      • “Building a Pasture Shelter”
      • “Going Mobile at the Small End of the Scale”
      • “Mobile Shelter: The Classic Polyface Model”
      • “Chicken Tractor: A Tribute to Andy Lee”
      • “Pasture Shelters for Market Layer Flocks”
      • “A Drown-Proof Waterer”
    • Waterfowl
      • “The Homestead Waterfowl Flock”
      • “The Silver Appleyard: A Great All-Round Duck”
    • Breeding the Homestead Poultry Flock
      • “Breeding Our Own Chickens”
      • “Brooding Chicks: Two Options”
      • “Brooding Chicks on Deep Litter”
      • “Working with Broody Hens: Let Mama Do It”
      • “Selecting for the Broody Trait: The Boxwood Broody”
      • “Working with the Cock(s) in the Flock”
      • “Breeding Your Backyard Flock”
      • “My Long Goose Breeding Saga”
      • “Making and Using Trap Nests”
      • “Trapnests for Improvement Breeding”
      • “Using the Clan Mating System: Low-Input Breeding for Maximum Genetic Diversity in Small Flocks”
      • “Flock Identification: Toe Punching, Numbered Bandettes, and Wing Bands”
    • Dealing with Poultry Predators
      • “In the Shadow of the Hawk”
      • “You Think You Have Predator Problems?”
      • “Getting along with Predators”
      • “The Usual Suspects”
      • “Purchased Aids for Predator Defense”
    • Butchering Poultry
      • “Homestead Poultry Butchering”
      • “The Whizbang Homemade Poultry Plucker”
      • “Building the Whizbang Plucker”
    • Producing for Small Markets
      • “Stepping Up to Production for a Small Broiler Market”
      • “Serving a Small Broiler Market: Three Examples”
      • “The Cornish Cross: What is wrong with this picture?!”
      • “Alternatives to the Cornish Cross”
      • “Caponizing: Reviving a Lost Art”
      • “Serving a Niche Market for Started Birds”
      • “Game Birds: A Niche Market Opportunity”
    • Poultry Miscellaneous
      • “New Kid in the Flock”
      • “Getting the Flock Ready for Winter”
  • The Homestead Dairy Cow
    • “Cowshare FAQ”
  • Pasture, the Heart of the Homestead
  • Bees
    • “Getting Started with Beekeeping”
• Resources
  • Announcing Harvey’s Book
  • In the Kitchen
  • “Ellen's Fabulous Chicken Broth”
  • “Making Duck Confit”
  • “Cutting Up a Duck”
  • “Rendering Fat”
  • “The Dalai Lama's Eggplant Parmesan”
  • “Harvey's Pilav”
  • Seeds and Plants
  • Tools and Accessories
  • Organizations
  • Books and Magazines
  • Book Reviews
  • “In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan”
  • Links
• Back Porch
  • Musings
  • Ellen's Little Soapbox
  • Questions
  • Boxwood Stories
    • “Doggie ESP”
    • “The Ides of March Storm”
    • “The Bamboo Flute”
    • “Meeting the Trickster”
  • Short Fiction
    • “The Goatherd”
    • “The Ballad of Bad-Ass Bob”
    • “Justifiable Sin”
    • “Small Injuries”
    • “The Suckling”
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