Welcome to Small Farm Life.  This blog covers the growing movement of people, like you, who seek to live a different life.  For some, it is simpler, greener, and more organic.  For others, it’s rediscovering memories of a rural childhood.
Our “farms” take many forms.  Some are ranches, some are a cabin in the woods. Some
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There is potential to re-use shipping containers.  Not the boxes from your eBay purchase, but the metal cargo containers.  July’s Mpls StPaul Magazine includes a great find by Dale Mulfinger.
The showcase cabin in Mulfinger’s Cabin Fever column sits on 40 acres and includes two of the 8 by 20 foot containers in the design.
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Raising pheasants is a challenge.
I began this year’s group on the 14th of June with 52 pheasants from McFarlane. Adjusting the heat in my brooder box proved to be more challenging that I expected and over the first two weeks, I lost about 16 chicks. Which is a much higher mortality rate than expected
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