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The Homestead Journey — 186 episodes

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S4E171 Season Finale: 2023:A Season of Change

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S4E170 11 Reasons Why Empty Nesting Hasn't Been As Traumatic As We Thought It Would Be

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S4E169 How Is Homesteading Different From Farming?

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S4E168 Why I Joined The Farm Bureau

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S4E167 Six Lessons I (re)Learned at the Fall Gathering of the Homesteaders of New England 2023

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S4E166 Lessons I've Learned From My WORST Garden EVER!!

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S4E165 Southern Adirondack Homesteading Festival: What Is Homesteading?

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S4E164 Steam Canning With A VKP (Harvest) Multi-Use Steam Canner

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S4E163 Five Reasons You Should Quit Doing Some Things

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S4E162 Lifesteading With Amy Dingmann - Empty Nest Homesteading

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S4E161 Empty Nest Homesteading: 3 Questions To Ask To Right-Size Your Homestead

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S4E160 Surving The Emotional Roller Coaster of Empty Nest Homesteading

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S4E159 Empty Nest Homesteading - 5 Steps To Rediscovering Purpose

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S4E158 Empty Nest Homesteading: Letting Go

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S4E157 Be A Teachable Homesteader

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S4E156 Be A Helpful Homesteader

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S4E155 Don't Let Them Take Your Animals

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S4E154 Does Your USDA Hardiness Zone Matter When Planting A Garden?

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S4E153 The Pros and Cons of The Mediterranean Diet

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S4E152 We Visited A Real Alaskan Homestead

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S4E151 How Is The Mediterranean Diet Impacting The Meat We Are Raising On Our Homestead?

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S4E150 How To Grow A Garden For The Mediterranean Diet

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S4E149 Can We Homestead In Upstate New York And Still Follow The Mediterranean Diet?

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S4E148 What Is The Mediterranean Diet?

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S4E147 5 Keys To Establishing Long Term Healthy Eating Habits

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S4E146 Coping With Change On The Homestead

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S3E145 How Successful Were We In Growing Potatoes?

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S3E144 Don't Do What You Hate

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S3E143 Was It A Success? Thoughts on HONE2022

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S3E142 How I'm Getting Ready For Next Year's Garden

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S3E141 It Hasn't Gone According To Plan

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S3E140 Food Preservation Methods And When To Use Them

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S3E139 Expectations Are Resentments Under Construction

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S3E138 Let the Weeds Grow.....

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S3E137 Is A Leatherman Super-tool 300 A Good EDC?

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S3E136 A HUGE Announcement You Don't Want To Miss

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S3E135 I Almost Blew It.......

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S3E134 Homesteading On An 8x10 Patio - With Clare from Start Small Homestead

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S3E133 Three Ways We're Growing Potatoes On Our Homestead This Year

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S3E132 Why Garden?

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S3E131 3 Things My Papa Taught Me

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S3E130 What's The Most Sustainable Way To Raise Meat Chickens?

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S3E129 100% of the Seeds You Never Plant Will Never Sprout

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S3E128 Reframe Your Mind

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S3E127 Do What YOU Can

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S3E126 Go Big Or Go Home: A Really BAD Approach To Homesteading

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S3E125 A Teenager's Perspective On Being Raised On A Homestead

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S3E124 Raising Kids on the Homestead: Lessons in Hard Work and the Value of Food

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S3E123 Raising Kids on the Homestead: Lessons in Responsibility

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S3E122 Raising Kids on the Homestead: Lessons In Death and Loss

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S3E121 Raising Kids on the Homestead - Lessons in Life

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S3E120 Raising Kids on the Homestead - Lessons in Resentment

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S3E119 Homestead Scale Maple Syrup Production W/Jack Pollner From The Mindful Homestead

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S3E118 Keeping It Real on the Homestead w/ Amy Dingmann from A Farmish Kind of Life

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S3E117 It's Time To Buy A New Farm Truck...... Help!!

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S3E116 Do I Recommend The Neversink Tools Proletariat Wire Weeder?

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S3E115 Don't Buy Seeds Until You Do These 5 Things

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S1E114 What's Next? Are We Done?

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S1E113 It's Time To Take A Break

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S1E112 Some of My Favorite Homesteading Related Books

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S1E111 He Saved 1000 Apple Varieties

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SE110 Are Regional Homesteading Conferences Needed?

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S1E109 Three Mistakes People Make When Winterizing Their Chicken Coop

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S1E108 Health Benefits of Fermentation

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S1E107 We've Had Our Kioti Tractor For 3 Years. Would We Buy It Again?

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S1E106 So You Want To Buy A Tractor

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S1E105 How To Safely Can Outdoors

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S1E104 Ethical Meat and Pure Charcuterie With Meredith Leigh

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S1E103 Charcuterie Intensive Conversation With Jack Pollner From The Mindful Homestead

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S1E102 Interview With Carl From The Self Sufficient Hub

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S1E101 Lessons I Learned From This Year's Garden

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S1E100 Lacto-fermentation As A Means of Food Preservation

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S1E99 I Almost Made A Huge Mistake - Homesteading Ain't The Most Important Thing

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S1E98 Talk On Modern Homesteading Given At The Washington County Fair 2021

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S1E97 When Dreams Don't Come True........ It's All Good

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S1E96 Review of The All American 921 and 930 Canners

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S1E95 Five Mistakes People New To Canning Make

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FMF14 Don't Be A Jerk

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S1E94 Homesteading With Special Needs Children - With Holly Stockley from Vintage Americana Podcast

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FMF13 Keep Asking Questions

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S1E93 Product Review: Winstrip Trays

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FMF12 What Am I Gonna Do With All That Zucchini??!!

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S1E92 My Dirty Little Secret

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FMF11 The Importance Of Understanding Your "Why"

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S1E91 Homestead Community

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FMF10 5 Homestead One Hit Wonders

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S1E90 Homestead Independence

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FMF9 4 More Useful And Versatile Items On The Homestead

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S1E89 Product Review: Premier 1 PoultryNet 12/48/3 and IntelliShock 60 Charger

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FMF8 Sometimes The Homestead Needs To Wait

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S1E88 A Conversation About Pole Barn Houses, Homesteading, Microgreens and The Cincinnati Reds w/Don Bradner from Little Mountain Life

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FMF7 The 5 Items I Find Most Useful and Versatile On The Homestead

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S1E87 How I Evaluate American Guinea Hog Piglets

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FMF6 3 Steps To A Weed Free Garden

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S1E86 When Things Don't Go According To Plan On The Homestead

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FMF5 Jams and Jellies: Beyond The Fruit

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S1E85 The Legacy of Homesteading

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FMF4 Getting Started Making Jams and Jellies

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S1E84 7 Things To Know Before Relocating To Homestead

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FMF3 Be A Quitter

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S1E83 Trading Dollars For Hours

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FMF2 Grow Up! (Thoughts On Trellising)

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S1E82 Should We Get Goats? Should You? With Special Guest Deborah Niemann

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FMF1 Introduction and the Importance of Soil Temperatures and Condition for Great Germination

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S1E81 Homesteading Is Under Attack

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S1E80 Pigs 101: Why We Notch and Tag Ears and Cut Males

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S1E79 Will Homesteading Save Me Money On My Grocery Bill??

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S1E78 How To Make $$ On Your Homestead

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S1E77 Small Scale Permaculture and Food Forests With Farmer Greg Peterson of The Urban Farm

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S1E76 Why I Plant Hybrid Varieties and Why I Think You Should Too

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S1E75 The Lumber Prices Are Too Darn High. What Should Homesteaders Do?

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S1E74 Should Your Homestead Make Money?

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S1E73 How To Properly Harden Off Seedlings

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S1E72 How We Start Seeds On 3B Farm and Homestead

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S1E71 The 6 Basic Things You Need To Successfully Start Seeds Indoors

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S1E70 Seed Starting 101: What, When, and How Much You Should Start

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S1E69 Don't Forget The Perennials!!!

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S1E68 How To Become More Sustainable This Year

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S1E67 How To Become More Self-Reliant This Year

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S1E66 How To Become More Self-Sufficient This Year

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S1E65 Should I Quit...... Social Media??

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S1E64 How to set SMART goals for your homestead

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S1E63 The Best Present I've Ever Received

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S1E62 Don't Put Off 'Til Tomorrow.......

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S1E61 The Homestead Journey of Red ToolHouse With Troy McClung

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S1E60 When Animals Die.... How To Handle Death On The Homestead

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S1E59 Embrace The Suck...... How To Deal With The Winter Blues

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S1E58 Counting My Blessings

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S1E57 The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Our First Year Using The Ruth Stout Method

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S1E56 A Conversation With Rod and Cora Wells (My Mom and Dad) From The HummingBee Homestead

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S1E55 Avoid The Auto-Suggested Homestead

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S1E54 Help!!! I Just Bought A Homestead, What Do I Do First?

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S1E53 Dealing With The WWW..... Winter Watering Woes

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S1E52 What's Really Important? Reflections After Witnessing A Motorcycle Accident

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S1E51 Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - Thoughts On Pig Fencing

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S1E50 What Kind of Pig Shelter Should You Build?

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S1E49 I’m Not A 4 Season Gardener And That’s Ok

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S1E48 The System Is Broken And What YOU Can Do To Help Fix It

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S1E47 A Conversation With Jack and Jackie of The Mindful Homestead

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S1E46 Ten Things You Can Do NOW To Set Yourself Up For Success With Next Year’s Garden

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S1E45 The Homestead and the County Fair

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S1E44 The Tools I Have Found Most Useful On The Homestead

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S1E43 If I Could Do It Over Again.... 6 Regrets I Have From Our Homestead Journey

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S1E42 How We Prepare Our Homestead So We Can Take A Vacation

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S1E41 A Conversation With Adam And Michelle From Farm Life Outfitters

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S1E40 From Beak To Butt: Using the WHOLE Chicken

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S1E39 You CAN Can: A Beginner's Guide To Home Canning

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S1E38 Beyond the Freezer: Homestead Meat Preservation

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S1E37 Bigger Isn't Always Better - W/Special Guest Brenda Scott

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S1E36 Homesteading Can Be Dangerous..... Do It Safely

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S1E35 What Equipment Do You NEED To Butcher Chickens?

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S1E34 Take Time To Enjoy Your Homestead

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S1E33 Do The Best You Can With What You've Got

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S1E32 One Homesteader's Journey With Heritage Breeds w/Guest Cathy R. Payne

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S1E31 Why Heritage Breeds Matter and How You Can Help w/guest Cathy R. Payne

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S1E30 Are Quail A Good Fit For Your Homestead? With Special Guest Harold Thornbro

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S1E29 Are Meat Rabbits A Good Fit For Your Homestead?

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S1E28 3 Ideas To Help Maximize Your Homestead's Potential

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S1E27 The Importance of Keeping Good Records On Your Homestead

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S1E26 5 Ways To Maximize Your Garden Harvest

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S1E25 Handling Adversity On The Homestead

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S1E24 10 Gardening Mistakes People Make And How To Avoid Them Homestead Preparedness Pt4

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S1E23 How To Raise and Grown YOUR Own Food Homestead Preparedness Pt3 BONUS EPISODE

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S1E22 Preparing DURING A Crisis Homestead Preparedness Pt. 2

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S1E21 Are Homesteaders Preppers? Homestead Preparedness Pt1

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S1E20 Is The American Guinea Hog The Perfect Homestead Hog?

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S1E19 Chickens 101 - Part 4 Seven Chicken Raising Mistakes and Misconceptions

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S1E18 Chickens 101 - Part 3 The Homesteader's Guide To Raising Chickens For Meat

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S1E17 Chickens 101 - Part 2 The 7 Breeds of Chicken We're Getting This Year w/Special Guest: Brian Jr

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S1E16 Chickens 101 - Part 1 So You Want To Get Chickens

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S1E15 Five Things To Consider When Adding Animals To Your Homestead

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S1E14 How To Homestead When Working A Fulltime Job

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S1E13 7 Homesteading Myths and Misconceptions

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S1E12 Dream, Decide, Do.... 3 Steps To Help You Have Your Best Homestead Ever

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S1E11 Ten Mistakes To Avoid When Setting Your Homestead Goals for 2020

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S1E10 You've Come A Long Way, Baby - A Year and Decade In Review

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S1E9 The War Against Weeds, Pests and Varmints

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S1E8 Should I Buy Or Start My Own Transplants

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S1E7 Where Should I Get My Seeds?

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S1E6 Preparing For The Harvest

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S1E5 What Gardening Method Should I Use?

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S1E4 Why Homestead?

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S1E3 How Do I Start The Homestead Journey?

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S1E2 What Is Homesteading?

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S1E1 An Introduction To The Homestead Journey

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