This Feral Life
Follow along with us in our adventures in homesteading as we share our tips, tricks, follies, and adventures. Become part of our virtual family and let’s grow together. We have many years of farming, self-reliance, DIY, canning and food preservation under our hats and we want to share it with you.
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Wednesday May 31, 2023
Wednesday May 31, 2023
Today we talk about various domestic fowl for the homestead, we talk about in this order:
Quail
Chickens
Ducks
Turkeys
Guinea Hens
Geese
and do a quick bonus round on Pheasants for $$
This is a pretty in depth podcast with tips on raising the various critters, cover some processing of the fowl. Feeding and housing, and tips to get them through those first few weeks of life where they are most delicate. There's a few funny anecdotes as well.
Chicken Plucker from a washing machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nqaCNKXFqY
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Monday May 22, 2023
Monday May 22, 2023
Today we cover various mammals for the homestead in this order:
Guinea pigs
Rabbits
Goats meat and dairy
Sheep
Mini Cows vs big cows
Pigs
We went long so our next episode we will talk about birds for the farm... then i guess we will talk about aquatic life for the farm.
We had a lot of fun this episode as it was our first live stream, so forgive any interruptions by our toddler and no cool music or sound effects as it was all just live.
Monday May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
Hello fellow humanoids!
Today we talk about food preservation, we cover a lot of topics from canning to freeze-drying, pickling, dehydrating, and fermenting. It's a fun episode although we did mess up a bit shortly after the quails and had to re-record it but such is life.
In this episode:
a George the chicken update
Freeze drying
Dehydrating and where to find cheap dehydrators
Canning and where to find cheap pressure canners
the best wide mouth fermentation lids i personally love
storing some dry food and why we add salt and spices
dry canning we touch on it a little
The tree of the day: Pakistani mulberry
Plant of the day: Thai Chili
Animal of the day: Coturnix quail
News of the day: The USDA is making over $100 million available in grants for folks to start small butcher shops in rural areas... you probably qualify.
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Monday May 08, 2023
Monday May 08, 2023
In this episode we cover pretty much every category of veggie and fruit we can think of off the tops of our heads. the most important thing to know is to grow what you want to eat, not just fancy things that no one knows what to do with. Covered in this episode:
Root veggies
Greens
Legumes
Grains
Squash
Melons
Fruit trees
We also touch a bit on the acquisition of the seeds, both with a recommendation for rareseed.com and what you can buy from the store and plant. We talk a bit about how long it takes to fruit, how to make sweet potato slips and pre sprouting your grains/beans.
The tree for this episode is the Housin Oriental Pear
The plant for this episode is the Patty Pan Squash
The skill for this episode is salt cured egg yolks and their uses
The news and things to watch out for in this episode are the purchase of grains and corn by the Chinese government from South Africa and bypassing the American market. Maybe part of BRICS?
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Monday May 01, 2023
Monday May 01, 2023
Hello world, welcome to This Feral Life! We are happy to have you, to help you and hopefully teach you. Thank you for listening! Hang in there its just our first episode a kinda introduction to us and our life.
Life Isn't Tame
The one thing that you can consistently control and count on in life is yourself and your reactions to situations. It is ultimately up to you to keep your family safe. The world isn't as tame and gentle of a place as one might think. Do not be an NPC in your own life, be different, be Feral.
Feral is a state of mind and being, it is not being easily governable it is being responsible for yourself and your loved ones. A human that has gone feral is a once domesticated passive creature that suddenly wakes up goes "living like this sucks" and makes a concerted, cognitive effort to better their position in life through self reliance and capturing the skills of past generations to increase their ability to choose what next major disaster not to participate in. Power goes out for a few days? Oh well I have food stored and alternative means of cooking/cooling. Economy going down the drain? I have food stored and the ability to make more for trade. Finding solutions instead of panic. That is This Feral Life.
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Life Isn't Tame
The one thing that you can consistently control and count on in life is yourself and your reactions to situations. It is ultimately up to you to keep your family safe. The world isn't as tame and gentle of a place as one might think. Do not be an NPC in your own life, be different, be Feral.
Feral is a state of mind and being, it is not being easily governable it is being responsible for yourself and your loved ones. A human that has gone feral is a once domesticated passive creature that suddenly wakes up goes "living like this sucks" and makes a concerted, cognitive effort to better their position in life through self reliance and capturing the skills of past generations to increase their ability to choose what next major disaster not to participate in. Power goes out for a few days? Oh well I have food stored and alternative means of cooking/cooling. Economy going down the drain? I have food stored and the ability to make more for trade. Finding solutions instead of panic. That is This Feral Life.
Join Us.