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Continue reading →: 2025 Fall and Halloween Activities in Cheyenne, Wyoming 🎃👻Cheyenne offers a fun mix of recurring annual events, family-friendly festivals, and other sweater weather activities to celebrate the fall season. Here are 2025 Halloween events happening in Cheyenne. I may earn commission through some of the links below. Cheyenne Halloween Events Ghost Tours in Cheyenne Cheyenne Frontier Days Costume…
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Continue reading →: Raising Meat RabbitsRabbits Are One of the Most Sustainable Foods You Can Raise When people think about sustainable food, their minds usually jump to backyard chickens, vegetable gardens, or maybe a small herd of goats. But there’s another animal that often gets overlooked—rabbits. And if you’ve got a little bit of grass…
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Continue reading →: Easy Recipes Using Goat MilkHere are recipes for chia pudding, yogurt, cheese, and smoothies that are goat milk based. The Wyoming Dairy Goat Association asked me to put together recipe cards they can hand out to children at an upcoming library event they have planned. These are some of the recipes I’m using for…
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Continue reading →: Herbal Goat Milk Soap RecipeHere’s my goat milk soap recipe for you try. I’ve received many compliments on this soap. It lathers well and doesn’t dry out skin. I like to make them as holiday gifts 🎁. Ingredients: The following links are affiliate links, meaning I may earn a small amount of commission from…
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Continue reading →: Goat Milk Shampoo Bar RecipeHere’s my recipe for goat milk shampoo bars. By cleansing without overly stripping natural oils, this shampoo bar balances moisture, leaving hair silky, smooth, and frizz-free. These bars produce an impressive lather and work well for thick hair. They’re also good for shaving your legs with, in my opinion. Ingredients:…
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Continue reading →: Tips for Butchering Meat ChickensWe were gifted 7 cornish-cross broiler chickens by a very kind friend in the neighborhood who has had unfortunate luck with his health. We had them for a few weeks waiting on the blistering cold wind to calm down. I thought that if they weren’t on high-protein feed, it wasn’t…
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Continue reading →: Why I Prefer to Raise Our FoodAs a kid, I never had a problem with the venison my father and step-mom would cook but I didn’t like eating meat after learning how commercially raised animals were kept. I avoided meat when I could once I was no longer eating mostly venison with my Dad. I ate…
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Continue reading →: Reuse Packing Material as Animal BeddingShred cardboard and packing paper to use as chicken nesting.
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Continue reading →: Solar Powered Chicken CoopAs the temperatures drop, keeping your chickens’ water from freezing can be a challenge. A solar-powered generator powering a lower-energy chicken water heater is the solution we went with. Running electrical cords from your home to the coop can be a potential fire hazard so I’m much happier with this.…


