With My Hands Homestead - The Best Year Ever

Nov 29 2023 42 ep. 43 mins 15
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Join us (April and Nate) on our journey to make 2021 the best year ever on our homestead. We have big plans for our gardens, our sheep, and adding a few more animals this year. We would love to help you learn from all our mistakes and maybe you can make 2021 the best year ever for your homestead too!

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It’s Not Goodbye, It’s See You Later - New Podcast “Farm Belles”

Nov 29 2023 5 mins  
This is the final post on With My Hands Homestead Podcast BUT I am starting fresh with a new podcast cohosted with my best friend Molly from The Felts Farm. Find our new video podcast at Farm Belles on Spotify and YouTube

39. Springs has Sprung! Animal updates and rockin garden

Apr 30 2023 24 mins  
In this solo episode, April gives updates on the egg eating chickens, new chicks, broken electric fence and not pregnant pigs. It has been an amazing spring and the garden is blasting off! Follow us on instagram @withmyhandshomestead and let us know what you want to hear on the pod!

38. Winter Recap with Nate! Plus our plans moving forward

Dec 24 2022 30 mins  
Nate is finally back on the pod! The farmers talk about the freezing weather, overdue meat chickens, lamb baby boom, pig AI, and the future of With My Hands Homestead. Check us out on instagram for more regular updates!

37. Turkey Talk and Pigs Not Getting It In

Sep 17 2022 53 mins  
In this solo episode April gives some end of summer updates. We talk Turkeys, why people are back to eating Walmart meat, Corny went broody, and small garden update

36. Things Are Better: over (or almost) the hard humps of summer

Jul 21 2022 34 mins  
This is a quick solo episode to fill you in on some farm updates. We are so close to being done with meat chickens for the year yay! We also got our batch of turkeys and a new ram. Pigs are doing great and we are almost down to just our three breeders in order to prepare for farrowing

35. Trying To Be Optimistic: the REAL pig escape, hungry owl, biting off more than we can chew

Jun 23 2022 52 mins  
We get a tiny taste of Nate today, but April takes over the bulk of the pod. It has been the hardest year to date, but we are taking things day by day and just trying to make it through the summer. Pigs have escaped, birds have been lost to predators, given up on our Bresse and White Rock projects, and fearing for July

34. Car Cast - lambing season review, pig updates, meat chicken challenges

Apr 17 2022 50 mins  
Nate is back! Today we talk about our ewe with a prolapse, successes and failures of this year's lambing, challenges with the first shipment of meat chicks, and pig updates. Check us out on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/withmyhandshomestead/

33. Spring Has Sprung - new fruit trees, lambing issues, pig escapes

Mar 14 2022 44 mins  
You get the pleasure of hearing Nate talk for 4 whole minutes! April takes on the majority of this episode talking about the hard frost, new fruit tree and cane additions, new chicks, a lambing issue, and a pig escape. Go follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/withmyhandshomestead/

32. Animals 2021 Recap and Future Goals

Jan 03 2022 63 mins  
Bonus extra long pod this week! Nate got jealous that April did a pod without him and was suddenly available to make an episode. They review 2021 farm animal successes, challenges, and goals for next year

31. Garden 2021 Recap and Future Garden Goals - Was It The Best Year Ever??

Jan 02 2022 43 mins  
Another solo episode but nate will be back next time for an animal recap. April does a garden review. What worked well and what she wants to change