Federal Farmer

Articles in the Homesteading category

• Eat Zee Chickenz

  When my wife and I decided to shift from hobby homesteading to "real farming" in 2020, we knew our focus would be on animal-derived fats and proteins as opposed to market gardening.

  

  Don't get me wrong, gardens are great, but the Agenda 2030 crowd isn't gunning for your zucchinis - it's meat they're after. And if based boomer Joel Salatin has taught me anything, it's that rotational grazing is the ideal method to raise happy, healthy animals and build great soil in the process.

  So naturally, we built a chicken tractor:

  

  The idea behind a chicken tractor is simple: You raise …

• Hello Dystopia

  Obligatory Hello World post. Welcome to my blog!

  I'm a software developer and yeoman homesteader who's come to understand that there are no political solutions to the technocratic dystopia now facing the Western world. This website is an anthology of how I'm dealing with that reality, and moreover, how I feel these two particular skillsets (homesteading and software development) are uniquely poised to navigate our current societal, spiritual, and monetary predicaments.

  Of course, they're not the only two skillsets capable of altering the trajectory of mankind's rapid descent into despotism. But they're the ones I'm most familiar with, so that's …