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    • Poultry Overview
    • Feeding The Flock
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  • Home
  • Overview
    • The Integrated Homestead
    • Life on the Homestead
  • Grow It!
    • Soil Care
    • Composting
    • The Homestead Garden – And More
    • Fungi
    • Greenhouse
    • Homestead Tools
  • Poultry
    • Poultry Overview
    • Feeding The Flock
    • Housing the Flock
    • Ranging the Flock
    • Breeding the Flock
    • Dealing With Predators
    • Butchering Poultry
    • Producing for Small Markets
    • Poultry Miscellaneous
    • Livestock
  • Resources
    • Downloads
    • Harvey’s Book
    • Harvey’s Presentations
    • The Homesteader’s Resources
    • In the Kitchen
  • Back Porch
  • Contact Us

Overview

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This section attempts to give a broad overview of the homesteading endeavor. It contains The Integrated Homestead, the flagship article, you could say, for the entire site.

It will also look at broader issues—of food and health, agricultural practice, and the emerging crises of industrial civilization, particularly where use of energy is concerned.

Table of Contents:

  • The Integrated Homestead (The “flagship” article of this website)
  • Life on the Homestead
    • My Responses on Mother Earth News Forum
    • How We Eat. . .
    • Our Tastes Are Simple
    • What Can You Do with Two Acres (or Less)?
    • Industrial Food and Its Discontents

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