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Homestead medicine was the medicine that man relied on to cure disease, treat infection, and encourage robust health for millennium. During the age of enlightenment, alchemy started playing with coal-tar and petroleum derivatives and industrial science and alleopathic medicine was born — beginning with mauve dye, an accidental invention that came from the search for [...]
You’ve probably seen this sunny, daisy-like flower growing on your homestead or in the surrounding landscape. It originated in the European alps and is an immigrant to North America. It likes poor soil and waste places at higher elevations. The next time you see it, remember where its growing because it is one of the [...]
Worms and parasites are the number one issue on any homestead, that keeps goats and sheep. Parasites harm the animals, reduce weight gain, and hinder health. Parasites can even kill your animal. Most commercial farms use veterinary anti parasite chemicals routinely, whether or not the subject animals actually have a worm load . Like antibiotic [...]
Why avoid chemical antibiotics in the barn: While factory farming makes extensive use of routine antibiotics in livestock feeding and animal husbandry, most homesteaders avoid the use of antibiotics in all but extreme emergencies. This is a good change. Routine use of antibiotics in food livestock has given rise to antibiotic resistant bacteria — deadly [...]
Whether you are raising llamas or alpacas on your homestead or you just have a few llamas as livestock guardians, you need to be aware of the danger that the common deer tick can pose to your camelids. A tick can harm a llama or alpaca. A bunch of ticks can kill a llama or [...]
In the last article I told you about several benefits of flax seed for your homestead medicine chest. In that article I only scratched the surface. In this article I’ll explore another use for flax — jelling it to use it as a base for homemade hand sanitizers. Since flax is rich in omega 3 [...]
Virgin Coconut Oil, Gold Label - 1 quart
