Forest Escape a chosen path

Chicken tea is a superfood for your garden! Why should you have chickens today? Basically you have four reasons to raise chickens, as they give you eggs and meat, and you can barter or trade with them, and they give you natural fertilizer for your plants! Learn how to make chicken tea and easily dispense it when needed. Forest escape homestead hacks include tree garbage! Noisy roosters always have something to say during any homesteading activity. Which rooster is the noisy one today? Make unlimited free fertilizer, instead of paying $10 to $12 for each bottle of liquid fertilizer concentrate at the store.

If you are homesteading in a forest escape, you have to consider whether or not you want free-ranging chickens. With bird flu and other threats like coyotes and raccoons as predators, an enclosure keeps the flock safe. Build your own chicken run on your coop. Watch the DIY Build a Chicken Coop video to see the first part. This is the second part, with a focus on building the chicken run. Decide if you want an 8' wide run that is 8' long or 16' long. Do you want to partition your flock? Do you have too many roosters? This concept design for a chicken run may help you decide what to do. Learn from mistakes and improvements! Also, we have a chicken cam! LOL

Simple idea for the homestead! DIY raised garden beds that will last quite a few years. Build your own raised beds, and also see what we did. What is a good approach - and what should have been done differently. Water eroding soil can be stopped. A hardware cloth bottom, and a rectangular design might work for you. Which wood lasts the longest? How wide should a raised garden bed be? Should you use weed block in a bed? This year, we are done fighting the weeds. Think about what design is best for your forest escape garden bed, and then have fun building it!

Build your own forest escape greenhouse with an affordable and simple concept design. Every homestead needs the ability to grow food, and indoors could be a good alternative or addition to a traditional garden. Find out what the perfect greenhouse plastic is and which ones to avoid! Use webbing and cushion tape for a long-wearing fit! Learn what we did - what was right and what was wrong. A good type of flooring is discussed, as well. Start growing plants earlier in the year - and longer in the year - with a greenhouse!

You can build it in the forest escape! Discover how to build a chicken coop on your homestead that accommodates a large flock, as well as supply storage, a brooding safe place or area for injured chickens, roosting bars and nesting boxes! Learn what flooring is best, and the type of roofing that will endure most storms. Protect against predators and more!

Communication is important and we rely on the internet and cell phones, but what happens when those fail? We can still communicate in the forest escape! We use ham amateur radios and CB base stations and mobile radios to have communication with people in our areas and around the world. Watch the antenna tower be installed, with a winch to raise and lower it. Old school CBs are making a comeback because everyone knows that the cell phones and internet can be unreliable. Learn about where to study and get information for your ham radio operator license, as well. See the radio frequencies for CB and ham communication. Walkie-talkies are also useful. Of course, the weather radio is good for in an emergency, too. Learn about an old-school pasttime that is making a comeback!

Forest escape homestead has work to be done. Birds are singing, watering plants, admiring the blueberries, and the rooster is crowing! Strawberries are growing and the apple tree is getting bigger. Identifying Virginia Creeper and Eastern Poison Ivy going up the tree. Cutting weeds and filling the compost bin. Chicken coop door needing repair and a taller door jamb. All in a day's work!

Forest escape birds are singing so loudly every morning! Making red syrup for the hummingbird feeder, sewing new chicken saddles and putting them on very uncooperative girls! Hens don't realize Blu-kote and saddles help them. Made the decision to put weed block in the raised garden beds, and used the iNaturalist Seek app to identify some wild grapes and summer grapes. Fun in the homestead!

Enjoying the green of spring at the forest escape homestead, cleaning out garden beds and hoeing, as well as adding fertilizer. Last year's veggies are growing LOL. How the raised garden beds were constructed. This year weed block is necessary. Wild berries get tied up, and lilies are growing and wild flowers are blooming. The iNaturalist Seek app was recommended by a friend and it is pretty cool.

When you follow God's path for your life, your life will change. In a forest escape we find peace and quiet, to study God's Word in the Bible. We work hard on our homestead planting, building, growing, raising animals and flocks, but there is also a spiritual part of life with God that is always present, so we grow and mature as people. Trust God. Don't be timid; be bold. Watch and pray. Christians love your neighbors. Live a wholesome life, use your gifts and do what God asks you to do!

Presenting the first hour of the day in a few minutes, with a suprise visit from a curious possum! Birds, dew on the leaves, wild grapevines, and more! From twilight to sunrise, it is a beautiful beginning of the day in the forest escape!

Update on Sparkle suffering from vent gleet, addressing the topic of ticks in Kentucky, testing the raised garden bed soil, potting plants, a strange little "dude" in the tomatoes, and some small improvements for the greenhouse, including something to scare away raccoons in the forest escape!

No electric power at the forest escape homestead this morning due to the storm, putting the feed and scratch in buckets, and a hen is not feeling well. Good treatment includes a spa day for Sparkle, as well as probiotics and electrolytes! Road is torn up from the storm, repurpose feed bags, natural treatments for vent gleet. Not exactly a typical day!

It is a green spring at the forest escape homestead! Today the chicken run jail for roosters needs improving, outfoxing the pesty moles, installing greenhouse shelving, and repurposing anything we can. Another hard day's work!

What is a normal day homesteading? In the forest escape using the Dremel to cut chain links for repairs, spraying on Blu-Kote and putting chicken saddles on the girls, as well as pests such as bees and mice! Just a normal day!

If you choose to buy a parcel of land, make sure you have a water source or can develop one. In the forest escape we have to have clean water for people, children, animals, pets, and chickens! See the spring my husband has developed and the animals that enjoy drinking this natural water source! We use the AlexaPure water filtration system. Consider home water filtration, short-term and long-term water storage, tablets, drinking straws and pouches of water for emergencies.

Chickens need protection from excessive mating, pecking and for other reasons. You can make chicken saddles for yourself, or to sell to others. Many people sell chicken saddles on Etsy, too, if you just want to buy them. It is easy to make chicken saddles. You can make summer styles and warmer winter styles. In the forest escape, we raise chickens, and the hens need chicken saddles!

It is past time to get the storm damaged trees, which were carried by the backhoe to an open area to be cut up for firewood. Also searching in the forest for storm damaged trees that can be used for firewood for the wood stove. We are using the Stihl chainsaw, the John Deere Gator, the Ford F-250 4x4, the Huskee wood splitter, and the Case Construction King backhoe to get the job done. Getting wood for next winter! Fun in the forest escape!

Have you always wants to write a book, create a coloring book, or make a prayer journal to sell? Do you want to write for adults or maybe for children? I am writing the God Really Loves You Book Series! Welcome to the world of POD print on demand! There is no need to buy a huge quantity of books or pay a publisher, if you don't want to. Learn about IngramSpark and writing books. If you live in a forest escape, you have time to think and a peaceful environment to write in. You can start today!

Many people talk about stress, fear, overwhelming bad news, long work hours and a difficult future. It is time for a lifestyle change. There is great hope in God, a good life to live, and the anticipation of the return of Jesus! When times are darkest our hope shines through brightest! Enjoy the forest escape quiet and solitude, so you can be closer to God. We are called to love God, ourselves, and our neighbors. If we can manage to do that, through our circle of influence, we can change lives. Watch and pray. This is the time for great hope! God bless!

The wood stove needs to be cleaned out, and the glass in the door is blackened with soot because logs touched the glass while burning. What easily cleans the glass clear as new? What are wood stove ashes good for? Find out as we clean the wood stove in our forest escape!

Forest Escape Christian Learning Craft Kits presents a potholder design with Christian Scripture. You can design fabric, put together craft kits and make money. Explore the idea of designing fabric with hand-drawn art, watercolor paintings, software, or a photograph! Spoonflower will print your designs on many types of fabric. Make pillows, tote bags, quilts and more! Forest Escape Fabrics is on Spoonflower. Design a quilt or design a design to be repeated on fabric.

Craft kits are something you can put together to sell online, to make money. Everyone loves to have a kit to make something, with everything they need included! God works through your hands to make wonderful things that bring you joy, and bring joy to others! Use your gifts to bring glory to God. Have fun with your Forest Escape Christian Learning Craft Kits™ that you purchase, or create your own craft kits to sell to others. Sell products on Etsy! Make money in your forest escape!

The greenhouse door was made with regular plastic that didn't hold up. See the type of greenhouse plastic that is more durable, and a type of greenhouse door with a specific type of door latch. Also the escape cord! I had to disassemble the door to fix all the brittle and ripped plastic. It was a project that took over an hour, but see the outcome that was worth it!

The greenhouse was serving as a winter barn for straw and hay, and chicken feed and scratch. For spring, the greenhouse had to be emptied, the gazillion ants had to be sent packing, and the blueberries had to be planted! Seedling progress and getting ready for greenhouse plant potting! Five hours later, all will be functional. Potting will be April 7th.