Best Garden Tools Ever

This is our Dewit Cultivator.

I purchased both the shovel and the cultivator. Here are some reasons why I love these tools:

1. Lifetime warranty
2. Won't bend when I use them
3. Hand made from Holland
4. Made with steel
5. Is crafted for the Job.

Here is where I purchased my tools. Gardentoolcompany.com

These people have all the tools you would ever need. They are legit.

ps. I don't get any compensation for this review. I only want to pass on the best tools to help you out.

Some pics of the Cultivator:

Flower Bed Gardening

We planted 24 dozen tulips last fall and now we are starting to reap the rewards. Other than some weeding, our flower beds look great.

Food Storage is Great, but a Living Storage is Better

Procrastination is the enemy of action. Watching the news, reading the paper and even visiting with neighbors constantly reminds me to be self-reliant. In my search for self-sufficiency, I have discovered a different idea of sustainability. People believe that if they have food storage they can withstand the trials of life (unemployment…). They are right; we can prepare ourselves for those inconvenient times where we just don’t have the means.

The type of self-sufficiency that is on my mind is more of a living idea instead of a food storage (stagnant) idea.

What if we could grow our own food, not just collecting food storage but, having something that can subsidize your life in the present, not just for some future trial? What if we could better understand how to create food, how to grow it, how to cook it? We would be better off if we understood.

Build your knowledge of self-sustainability by developing the systems that can help sustain life. Not relying so much on the grocery system for survival. Why wait for the trial before you set up the process. You can do it now while the going is good, while you have employment, and while you have the ability to prepare. In time of great need, the government won’t be there for you. If a natural disaster, war or even an Solar Flare does happen, government will be to concerned about the welfare of their own families to respond to the needs of yours, and rightly so.

Here are a few projects that everyone should think about doing:

1. Water Collection System / Rain Harvesting System
2. Buy a wood burning stove "heat for your house"
3. Grow food instead of a lawn "at least in the backyard"
4. Raise egg laying chickens
5. Have a beehive
6. Have fruit and nut trees

How to treat a baby chick with diarrhea

Today I cleaned my baby chicks. They had crusted over poop on their tails to the point that they where all clogged up. This could be a gross video for some viewers.

How to build a Rocket Stove

Check out my rocket stove design in this video. Super easy instructions to help you create your own.



Benefits:

1. Cheap "if not free to build"
2. Low smoke exhaust due to high temperature burn.
3. Take minimal wood to operate. Literally cool meals with twigs.
4. This stove took me about 1 hour from start to finish, including breaks to film my progress.

Some pictures of the process:

Types of Chickens on my Homestead

I recently purchase some chickens. Let me show you what they look like:

Golden Sex link: Purchased 2

Road Island Red: Purchased 7

Ameraucana: Purchased 4

Australorp: Purchased 2

Black Sex links: Purchased 1

Raising Urban Chickens

A couple things to remember when raising chickens:

1. Chickens can live over 24 hours without food and water right after hatching. Once they get food and water they can no longer go without.
2. During the first week of life chickens need to be kept at 95 degrees. Every week thereafter, chickens need less subsidized heat. Using a heat lamp is an easy way to provide heat.
3. New chickens need chick starter. Adding grit to the feed can also help with digestion.
1. If you are against medicated feed, simply pull some weeds "roots and dirt intact" and give that to the chickens with their organic feed. This will help build immunity to disease found in their environment.
4. Keep your water far away from the heat source. This reduces the risk of bacteria forming in the water. It also keeps the water cool.
5. You can see eggs as early as 4 months from when you get your birds. That's if you purchase birds in February, but if you purchase chicks in May then you might not see eggs for 6 to 8 months. It all depends on how much sun light the chicken gets.