Raising quail for meat and eggs in your backyard has become a fun hobby for many urban homesteaders. Backyard quail are small, take up little precious room, and you can have eggs and meat year round. Quail can go from hatch to butcher weight in 6 weeks. During that time, they eat much less than… [read more]

Learning how to hatch quail eggs isn’t hard, but it DOES need a bit more thought in the beginning. With our newest edition to our homestead, we have become “masters” at the art of incubating. Well, maybe masters isn’t the right word. BETTER at it, I should say. When we got our first batch of… [read more]

Do  you live in an area that ISN’T friendly to the idea of being self-sufficient? Are you relegated to only being able to dream of fresh eggs daily, or raising your own food? Do you have to fight with zoning or HOA rules that seem outdated? In an urban area, not everyone has neighbors like… [read more]