YFM Blog

Today marks the first day of spring! With all the excitement of renewal, rebirth, green leaves poking up through frozen, muddy ground, also comes a daunting task - spring cleaning...

A Beginner's Guide to Doomsday PreppingPrepping, sometimes known as "doomsday prepping," often carries with it images of underground bunkers, stockpiles of canned goods, and survivalists preparing for a post-apocalyptic world....

Curing and Smoking: Traditional Methods of Meat Preservation Before refrigeration became commonplace, humans had to find ways to preserve food, especially meat, so that it would last through harsh winters...

Fat, tallow, suet, lard - whatever you call it, if you live on a farm it is plentiful and has 1,000 uses from frying the best fries ever to making...

  Tomato season - eagerly anticipated amongst all Northern gardeners - is here in all its bounty! You may be overrun with ripe, luscious, juicy tomatoes, which is a good problem...

There are so many great books out there on gardening and starting a homestead but The Rooted Life by Justin Rhodes is by far my favorite. Whether you have an...

Kombucha is one of the healthiest drinks you can consume. It's a great replacement for soda as it has a yummy carbonation without all those bad ingredients and sugars. Kombucha...

It is usually about this time of year that gardening comes to mind - dreaming of greens, growing things, and ripe tomatoes amid the winter lull. Seed-purchasing time was my...

Baby Chick season is almost here! I ordered my 16 Lavender Orpington's yesterday! This breed is friendly and very cold hardy. I am so excited to start keeping chickens as...

On our homestead located not far from Yankee Farmers we decided it was time to build a hen house (in the summer of 2016). It was a family project and...