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The Elliott Homestead on The Great American Farm Tour

By Shaye Elliott 16 Comments

The Elliott Homestead on The Great American Farm Tour

We had the pleasure of welcome Justin Rhodes & Family to our farm this past week as they passed through on their Great American Farm Tour! See what they saw here…

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Filed Under: Farming & Gardening, Videos Tagged With: Family, Farm, Farming, Homestead, Homesteading, Travel

How to Milk a Cow

By Cris Daining 5 Comments

How to Milk a Cow

How to Milk a Cow Want to know how to milk a cow? Here’s a quick video of how we milk our family dairy cow including: how we clean her, the milking stanchion we use, and how we filter the milk. We’ve had experience milking our previous cows, but this is only a few day’s into

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Filed Under: Animals, Family Cow, Farm, Farming & Gardening, Videos Tagged With: Dairy Cow, Family Cow, milking a cow, video

Building a Goose Shelter

By Cris Daining 4 Comments

Building a Goose Shelter

We’ve got geese at The Elliott Homestead. So naturally, that means we had to do some research and work on building a goose shelter. Here’s our latest video showing us building a goose shelter. It’s super quick and easy to do!  Stay tuned for more awesome videos and future posts on geese!  Don’t forget: Subscribe to

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Filed Under: Animals, Farm, Farming & Gardening, Videos Tagged With: building goose shelter, goose, goose shelter, video

How to Butcher a Rabbit (and which breed we raise!)

By Cris Daining 5 Comments

How to Butcher a Rabbit (and which breed we raise!)

We are having fun making videos here at The Elliott Homestead. This latest video shows how to butcher a rabbit. Plus, we talk a bit about which rabbit breed we have here on the farm.  I’ve written before about how to harvest rabbits, so make sure you check out that post and then watch the video. Together,

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Filed Under: Farm, Farming & Gardening, Meat Rabbits, Videos Tagged With: Butchering, Rabbits, video

Ducklings and a New Bread Recipe

By Cris Daining 7 Comments

Ducklings and a New Bread Recipe

Our latest video is all about Ducklings and our new favorite bread recipe here at The Elliott Homestead.  Y’all probably know by now how much I love making my own bread. In the past, I’ve written about my traditional soaked wheat bread recipe, my einkorn cornbread recipe,  french-style baguettes recipe, einkorn puff pastry recipe, and so

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Filed Under: Animals, Breadish, Farm, Recipes, Videos Tagged With: Food, Poultry, video

To death with the nasty rock fireplace.

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To death with the nasty rock fireplace.

To death with the nasty rock fireplace! It’s time to replace this 70’s stamp with something much, much better.  Subscribe to us on YouTube HERE and never miss a new video!

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Filed Under: Animals, Farm, Farming & Gardening, Ponderings and Dreams, Sheep, Videos Tagged With: Demo, DIY, Farm Renovation, Home Decor, Renovation, videos

Putting the bees to bed in the winter

By Shaye Elliott 1 Comment

Putting the bees to bed in the winter

Follow us on YouTube HERE! We’re putting our bees to bed for the winter. Overwintering bees means…honey on the homestead! Check out our video here. We show you what beekeeping on the homestead looks like, plus, why we add a towel to the hive…Watch our Overwintering Bees video!    

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Filed Under: Beekeeping, Farming & Gardening, Videos Tagged With: Apiary, beekeeping, Bees, Harvest, Homestead, Honey

Hatching Chicks (in the middle of winter!)

By Shaye Elliott 5 Comments

Hatching Chicks (in the middle of winter!)

This year, we’re trying something a little bit different on the farm: we’re hatching chicks…in the middle of winter! We explain why we’re trying this in our video. So make sure to check it out and don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel! Follow us on YouTube HERE!     

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Filed Under: Chickens, Farming & Gardening, Videos Tagged With: Animals, Chickens, Chicks, Farm, Farm animals, Flock

Our First Farrowing

By Shaye Elliott 7 Comments

Our First Farrowing

Follow us on YouTube HERE! Check it out! Our first farrowing on the farm. It’s finally time to welcome our first litter of piglets and our first farrowing- and just in time for Christmas! Have you ever seen a pig give birth? You’re about to…Click here to watch our video.      

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Filed Under: Farm, Farming & Gardening, Pigs, Videos Tagged With: Birth, Farming, Farrowing, Heritage Pigs, Homesteading, Pigs

Farm Raised Pork Kebobs W/ Citrus Quinoa

By Shaye Elliott 11 Comments

Farm Raised Pork Kebobs W/ Citrus Quinoa

Food on the homestead tastes like sizzling skewers of homegrown pork kebobs.  Add garden fresh veggies and citrus quinoa for a mouthwatering meal any time of the year. Enjoy my recipes? Check out some more tasty down home cookin’: Fresh Lettuce Wraps Homemade Onion Rings Oven-Fried Zucchini with Garlic Aioli Simple Chocolate Mousse  

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Filed Under: Cooking Videos, Homemade, Main Courses, Recipes, Videos Tagged With: Pork, quinoa, summer, videos

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