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Thanks for asking me, i feel so cool haha. I’m gonna publish this, I hope you don’t mind! (This is long lol)

Here are some basic tips: 

I’m very very poor, so a lot of what I do revolves around the cheapest and sturdiest options. I want to use what I have and make it last! Learning how to reuse literally everything is a big skill. And being unafraid to let things be ugly or to pick up “trash” and reuse it is priceless. My coop is JANKY af, but it works and it was free! 

Know your land! If you’ve been there for a while, A+. If not, try (if you can) to wait a full year and really get a feel for how your land functions on its own. Work WITH nature, not against it. (Don’t put your coop on the shady side of your workshop where it floods every winter PRO FUCKING TIP). 

Start from seed when possible! Getting a good system for starting from seed indoors saves SO MUCH MONEY. I always feel cheated when I see people with big luscious gardens at the start of May - then I remember a lot of them shelled out literal hundreds on started plants when my babies were only maybe 20$ cumulatively and I have triple the amount of plants. Just takes a little longer. 

Don’t get more animals until you have the infrastructure! Haha, this is something everyone’s done. I was up in my goat pen ripping up rotted floors in 95 degree weather cuz I knew my goats would be ready the next day and I was NOT ready. Very stressful. One of the most stressful days of having goats and I hadn’t even had them yet LOL. 

Enjoy your animals and your garden! Take photos! Post them online! The little feedback I get from here (including asks like this) totally fire me up. It’s important to have pretty things, they keep you going on muddy shitty days when all you want to do is sleep. There’s loads of edible flowers that will help your garden and attract pollinators! (Like nasturtiums, cone flowers, marigolds, thyme ETC). 

I learned everything I know pretty much from Youtube. Hopefully that doesn’t sound like a copout, but I want to be honest! 

I love the channels Roots and Refuge Farm , Justin Rhodes and Weed em and Reap.  (In that order haha. Jess from Roots and Refuge is the BEST. Everyone else is either kinda rich or trying to sell you something, but the information is useful). 

PS Thanks for the tip on mint! I planted a bunch of starts I splurged on (Some things are just impossible to start from seeds without a fancy setup, mint is one of them.......) all around my coop and they’re taking off. It’s super invasive, but in this area I’d be totally fine with it taking over. My goats don’t love them, which is ideal so they’re leaving them alone. In a few years the whole coop will smell minty fresh! My rat problem HAS gone down, but I think that has more to do with my brothers cat.... But the mint definitely threw them off! Totally if you’re going to have chickens get a head start on planting herbs and flowers for them to eat. I have a whole chicken flower garden going where they love to take dust baths and it’s such a joy. 

Growing Food:

The basics of Growing Food

Seed Starting Plan

Grow transplants for free

How to get Seeds for Free

How to find good soil for Free

Amending the Soil

How to Collect Seeds

Re-potting and care for tomato transplants

Growing dry beans

Growing Garlic

Plants going to Seed Explained

Food you can grow and eat in the Winter

Climate change and Food Security

Plant Lemon Trees from Seed

Stashing Food

Storing the Food from your Garden

Living in nature and food conservation

Making a Meal from foraged and Garden Food in Winter

Sun-drying Strawberries

Sun-drying Cherry Tomatoes

Citrus Tips

Canning

Blackberry Jam

Strawberry Jam

Salsa (tomatoes, peppers, onion, garlic)

Đuveđ (mixed vegetables preserve)

Ajvar (preserved peppers)

Preserved sugar Cherries

Foraging: 

Edible Mushrooms that grow on trees

Edible Wild Plants to Forage for in Spring

Make Honey out of Dandelions

How to cook with Nettle

Incredible value of Pine Needles

Herbalism

Rose Water

On herbal infusions and poison tea

Herbs to Collect for Tea

How to safely make Elderberry Syrup

Yarrow and Lemon Balm

Tree Care:

How to grow trees

Where are the Tree Roots?

What is Root Flare

Tree Pruning Mistakes

Types of Pruning cuts

How to Prune Correctly

Other:

Building a Cob House

How to make Earthen Floors

Cooking with minimal use of heat

Processing Forest Clay

How to hand-work clay

How to make laundry detergent out of conkers

Creating baskets out of Newspapers

How to keep your space cool during heat waves

How trees create a living atmosphere

How to get rid of ants

Survival Recipes