Entries by Welcome Back Woods

Automatic door for chicken coop and more!

Join us for an update tour of all our main projects. If there is something you are interested in, check the index below: New chicks @ 1:00 Chick Shaw @ 3:30 Maggot bucket @ 6:00 Mealworms @ 7:40 Garden @ 10:00 Justin Rhodes page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOSGEokQQcdAVFuL_Aq8dlg Grass-Fed Homestead: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc2ka-aGChwIiX0mEXzfmoA/featured?disable_polymer=1 SOURCE

Easy Method for Planting Purple Potatoes

Welcome back friends! Today, we are planting purple potatoes using the Back to Eden method. This consists of placing your seed potatoes on grass, covering them in a foot of bark chips, and thoroughly watering the whole thing. Supposedly, the grass dies under the thick mulch covering, which provides a nitrogen boost for the potatoes. […]

Sifting our DIY Mealworm Bins

Recently, I had the idea to raise mealworms as a supplemental protein source for our chickens. We started out with a small input of 200 mealworms, all of which we let grow into adult darkling beetles. We had just begun to see baby mealworms in the lower bin, so I decided to try to sift […]