There's something amazing about having dirt under perfectly manicured nails, amazing highlights hidden by a cowboy hat, a strong, healthy body obscured by overalls and rain boots.
Take off your shoes, feel the earth under your toes. Feel the sun on your face. Come on back, it's time to feed the chickens!
A Little Dirt is Good for You
Wash the makeup off your face, but leave your hands dirty. Take off your fancy clothes and replace them with overalls and the shirt you worked out in yesterday. Get outside. Soak up some sunshine. Sing to the chickens, feed the birds, turn over a rock and see what's under it. There's no right way to do it. Just get out there and do it.
The Dirty Cowgirl
Backyard farming is the practice of using an average residential lot to grow food and sometimes even animals for consumption. Other common names for this practice are urban gardening or urban homesteading.
You would be surprised how much homesteading can be done on a small residential lot!
In addition to four dogs and two cats, our backyard farm is home to four hens, two pullets and three chicks.
The hens and pullets can be found free ranging during daylight and warm and safe in their houses at night. The chicks stay in their house where it's always safe and warm and they have all the food they want.
