Whether making cheese products or raising cows for meat on your family farm, choosing the best cow breed for milk and meat will make a world of difference.
Some may know me as the crazy chicken ninja, but that’s not how my story started.
Many years ago, the Beautiful One (aka, my wife Rebekah) and I brought home four chickens and placed them in a vacant horse stall. Within the first hour, two of them literally “flew the coop” and were gone forever.
Doubts quickly set in at what we had gotten ourselves into.
With determination and massive (perhaps ungodly) amounts of effort, time and money, something surprising happened… I got really good at raising chickens for both meat and eggs.
Fast forward and our 140-acre farm has expanded to include cows (both meat and dairy), sheep, pigs, rabbits, turkeys, and countless other livestock, all with a steep learning curve of their own.
Join me on this homesteading journey and learn from my countless hours of research and “trial by fire.”
This life may not always look perfect, but it’s perfectly fitting for us, and we’re enjoying the journey.
24 Hours Without Food + Running a Farm Without my Oldest Son
1st Class Daddy Daughter Date, But I Lost the Vlog
We're Back (WITHOUT My Oldest Kid)
Healing Goals for Jonah + Prepping the Crop Gardens for Winter
Gardening with Sheep | Planting Cover Crop + Jonah’s Pain-Free
Surpise Farm Babies | 1st Time Milking the New Cow + Jonah’s Recovery
Son Comes HOME After Three Days in Hospital
2nd Hip Surgery for My Son
DirtBike ACCIDENT Puts My Son in the Hospital
Our BIG Idea for a Permaculture DREAM HOME
Turkey Butchering | So Big I’m Afraid They Won’t Fit in the Bag
Lily's 11th Birthday: Horse Crazy
Learning to homestead is difficult. You don’t know what you don’t know and there’s a whole lot of learning to be done. We’re here to help maximize your efforts, reduce the questions and uncertainty, and come alongside you as you realize your homesteading dreams.
Justin Rhodes shares the skills and the delights of becoming a part of your own food story in this inspiring and accessible and beautiful four-color invitation to a more abundant, healthy, and connected life.