Homesteading Community Highlights #12

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Hello everyone, welcome once again to Homesteading Highlights!

For this edition, we'll be reverting back to the 'categories' format, as you'll soon see.

There is little in the way of news to go over, but I do want to dish out some thanks and an announcement before we get to this edition's features.

First, I would like to thank our founder, @jacobpeacock, as well as @bigorna1, @digital.bank, @diy-homestead, and @badge-767676 (and whoever controls these accounts!) for the incoming delegations! Between the community account, and my personal account, we now have enough combined voting power to get a post above the dust threshold. 😂 I know it's not much of a brag, but it still feels like an accomplishment!

Next, I would like to drop a little plug for the Off Grid Community. I know that many of you will also have an interest in off grid projects. There isn't much going on there yet, but over the next year I hope to be able to breathe some new life into that community, as we've done here at Homesteading. If you get some 'free' time, check it out.

Finally, I want to thank all of you community members, who post here, and vote here, and come here to learn. I appreciate every one of your ideas, experiments, and comments!

Now, let's move directly to this edition's featured authors...

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Building, maintenance, and repair

@solominer continues to share his journey with us, in this post about installing a fence to keep the deer out. Deer are a very common crop pest in the US, and they can jump incredibly high, so keeping them out requires unusually high fence!

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For our next feature, @crowblique shows us an interesting aquaponic experiment with potatoes. Let's show some love, and encourage them to share the results with us!

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Finishing out the category, @bigorna1 posts about upcycling to create a barrier that will keep out wild boars! We'll be wishing him the best in this battle with one of natures most destructive pests.

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Livestock

@steampunkkaja shares a wonderful story about some guinea fowl, that includes an unlikely adopted mother and teaches us the collective noun for guinea fowl.

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In an attempt to post photos even cuter than baby birds, @tobywalter talks a bit about his struggle to start a goat herd. We wish him the best, and hope to see more photos of the baby goats!

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Closing the category, @generikat tells us about the baby chicks she's been keeping in the bathroom, and the work that had to be done to get them out of there. If that description left you curious... check out the post!

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Planting and Growing

Starting off this category, @jasonmunapasee shares some great photos about how they use all the available land around his house for growing. It's a truly inspiring view of some very well-utilized property.

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Next up is a fantastic post from @alt3r, showing us a way to protect our trees without using modern poisons. This is a great article about tree care that I recommend to anyone with an orchard.

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Finally in this category, @danlop shares some of his uncle's teachings with us in a short post about planting 200 eggplants using natural fertilizer. He doesn't give us the details of the family fertilizer recipe, but it is still a good read.

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Harvest, Cooking, and Storage

Kicking off our final category, we have a great post from @agbogo about making tapioca salad from cassava. This doesn't look quite like the tapioca I'm used to, but as you can see, the kids sure seem to love it!

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In another show of self-promotion, here's a post from me about some outdoor storage for my empty food storage jars that I threw together.

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Finishing out this edition's highlights, we have a great post from @ajirdeal about manually harvesting a field of rice. The photos in this post can really make you feel the work that goes into it!

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Thank you once again for your time! I'm overjoyed to be getting another one of these out on time, I hope you're just as happy to be seeing another timely update from the Homesteading Community.

Until next time...