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Classic Homesteading Practices
by Christi B. Commentary
Homesteading skills and knowledge for you to use in your everyday life, from gardening, to raising live stock, even to making your own clothes, when your ready to learn come one over I have lots to share.
Episodes
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Behavior and welfare of pigs pt.2
This is the second part of pigs behavior and welfare explaining signs of fear and stress in pigs and how to reduce it, pen size and exploring habits, along with cleanliness behaviors and rooting around.
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Behavior and Welfare of pigs pt. 1
This is an in depth reading and commentary or the book farm animal behavior from Ingvar Ekesbo and we are staring off with pigs! I'm so excited to share this knowledge with you
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Trailer for Next Season! Farm Animal Behavior, health, and Care
It's time for the next season of Classic Homesteading Practices where I commintate and share information on farm animal behavior, health, and care from the book, Farm animal behavior by Ingvar Ekesbo. Im so excited to share all this wonderful information to help you and your animals in your…
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Growing Zuchinni
This is my experience in growing zuchinni from supplies, to length of growth, northern vs. Southern watering practices and of course, eating ideas. May this prepare you for anything . . . zuchinni related!
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Growing tomatoes
This is an episode on growing tomatoes from beginning to end
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2 Alternative Building Materials
This is talking about growing or making building materials that can help you with an alternative to spending money at the store for lumber. Living off your own resources in your backyard or for a really low price
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Cloning your Plants
This is for people who want a faster way to grow plants or a different way than seed starting to grow their garden.
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Succession Planting your garden
This episode talks about interval or succession planting which helps keep you growing and harvesting through the entire season.
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Bug Control in the Garden
For anyone who has had to deal with these pesky leaf eaters, this is my help for you. Aphid, slug, horn worm, and earwig control for your garden. Good luck, and may you be prepared for anything!
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Intro to Raised Garden Beds
This is an episode specifically for making and filling raised garden beds.
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Potted Gardening: the most versatile style
Gardening pots are something I took for granted until I needed them to keep my gardening dreams alive. For those eof you who wish to grow and feel like you can't, I made this episode for you and everyone else. Because truly potted gardens are the most versatile of garden styles.
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Intro to dirt
Picking out dirt for your garden can be hard at times let alone expensive. This is to help you understand dirt and why see which one you might want to have.
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My recommended garden tools & their uses
It may not seem like a topic worth talking about but garden tools are important, but you don't need them all. Here are my favorites plus I wanted to talk to you about other tools and their purpose.
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Spring Gardening & Plants
This is basic information on Spring planting and the plants that you can grow. Why it may be better to grow these crops in spring rather than summer.
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Intro to seed starting
If you want a green thumb or have one and want a little bit more material this is my knowledge on seed starting.
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Intro to Composting
This is for all the gardening and animal folk looking for a better route to either getting dirt or making it for their homestead.
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Intro to Beekeeping
Bee keeping is a wonderful way to bring sweetener on to your homestead needing sugar. For anyone interested in learning a little on bee keeping this is for you.
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Introduction to worm farming
Make fertilizer from worms!
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Introduction to sheep
I will be talking to today about sheep and why you would have them. How to take care of them through housing, feeding, and steering them, along with processing the wool (fleece).
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Intro to rabbits (some graphic detail)
This is an intro to rabbits with a more meat leaning education so if that makes you squeamish I understand you might not want to listen other than that, let's get to learning.
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Podcast update for season 3
Just an update to let you know whats going on. Also I'm going to put up a Facebook page to start a homesteading community where I can answer your questions and you can talk to each other.
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Introduction to Gardening
This is the final episode of Season 2 and what a great way to end it with Gardening. I'm talking about the very foundation of building a garden and the info you need to know to start one whether its indoors or outside make sure to study up, and I hope this helps you out.
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Introduction to Animal Husbandry
I wanted to share with you the basics in Animal Husbandry, really the outlining of what in entails and the reason why its so important and fun.
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Introduction to Building
Learning the basics of building a structure is important and I want to share with you my informations on crafting through learning about your tools, your materials, and building plans.
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Introduction to Cooking
This is for people who are beginners, or brand new to cooking homesteaders and independent people a like. Not a tutorial but giving basic knowledge on cooking and the tools to use.
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Introduction to Sewing
Let's talk about the tools and the 3 most important stitches when it comes to sewing.
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Introduction to beef and dairy cows
This is the last episode of the season! And what better way to end it than with cows! We will be discussing 3 different types of cows plus a specialty breed on both beef and dairy for you to understand the range that cows come in!
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Introduction to Pigs
Yes, its pigs and I love the bacon talk so bare with me and my bad stories while I tell you a little about pigs
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Introduction to Goats
Basic information on goats without diving to deeply into the different types, but giving you a general understanding of what you'll need, what to expect, and some dairy tips at the end.
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Ripening Green Tomatoes
This is for the fellow tomato grower, with green tomatoes that need ripening. It's that time of year folks, and I'm not the only one who want tomato sauce!
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Basic homesteading skill part 2: sewing & carpentry
Today I'll be discussing sewing and carpentry on a basic level and what you should have and I have researched on to make my skills better over time.
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Homesteading: basic skills part 1
In this episode we will be discussing cooking, gardening, and animal farming (husbandry)
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Homesteading: Starting a basic idea
Let's talk about starting a basic idea of what you need to start a homestead.
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Introduction to turkeys
For people wanted to know the beginner parts to turkeys, I will be talking about commercial vs. Heritage how to raise the, mentioning how long until the will be butchered, a couple of thing you need to realize about each different kind and the duality of turkeys.
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Intro to raising ducks
This is the basic information to raising ducks. Going through living space, supplies, different types of ducks, theyre nature and integrating them into a chicken flock or having them by themselves.
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Introduction to chickens
For chicken basics you need to think about infrastructure, supplies, basic knowledge on what kind of chickens you can get and what way you're going to use them.
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Classic Homestead Practices
This is the beginning of a knowledge bank for anyone who wishes to learn about homesteading and how to integrate these skills into they're everyday life style, your don't need a farm to live this way, it's about learning and applying the tools to your life. Merry Homesteading friends! #homestead...
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Homesteading skills and knowledge for you to use in your everyday life, from gardening, to raising live stock, even to making your own clothes, when your ready to learn come one over I have lots to share.
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Classic Homesteading Practices is created and hosted by Christi B. Commentary.
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