Self Sufficiency on Small Acreage Homestead Tips | My Chicken Coop

Here you will find several tips on small acreage homesteading, plus a little tour of Ali's chicken coop. People are finding the desire and need to become more self sufficient these days to help provide food for themselves and rely less on the grocery stores. Learn new homesteading skills and tips to help you become more self reliant.

Raised Garden Bed Link:

Chicken Manure Compost Video Link:

Want to learn more about gardening? Check our websites blog out for more information on gardening, pest management, weed control, disease control and other organic gardening methods.

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Mailing Address:
760 Red Rock Road
St. George, Utah 84770

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I also write a blog geared for our zone 8, which I would love to write more often, but life is busy! however, you may find some good resources here.

Our CSA, where we provide food for families on a weekly basis and we also donate a portion of our produce to Elders or Someone in need in our community to provide healthy fresh organic veggies.
00:00 Self Reliant
00:27 Chickens & Chicken Coop
01:01 Chicken Winter Care
03:33 Chicken Coop
05:09 Garden
06:41 Preserving
07:22 Dairy Goats
08:31 Orcharding on Small Acreage

[jeffkey]

Do you like those metal raised beds?? Would you recommend them and where did you buy them?

[marilynH]

I pray that more people will discover your channel, Ali. Your content is always helpful and full of insights. More power to you. God bless!

[OurWeeTennesseeHomestead]

New subscriber here. I just found your wonderful channel. My husband and I have been struggling on our homestead due to health issues, and it's been so discouraging. It makes me happy and encouraged seeing others who are successful. Thank you for sharing your wisdom here.

[layspotatochips]

As always, a beautifully done video. To the point and packed full of information. I never thought of filling my empty jars with water. Just one more way to maximize storage. Thank you!

[suenavivedisfruta]

I love your homestead. 😊👍It looks beautiful with the drone images.

[samyu]

"An empty jar is just that." What wise words to fill it with water. It's the potential to be of use one day. Much like people. You have so much to share and I am so glad to have stumbled into your channel. Thanks!

[noraholmes]

You’re an amazing woman! I was blown away by all of your skills. Keep up the great work & sharing it.

[QRSTUVe]

How lovely.. God Bless You Always for this information. ❤ Its life giving!

[Root_and_Fleurish_Farm]

I really love your videos. We moved onto our farm a couple years ago. We have about 3.5 acres so it’s so refreshing to see how much you’ve jam packed onto your property!

[adrianteresa]

I love how much you've fit into1/2 an acre! Could you go through how you planned out your garden? I'm trying to fit fruit trees and lots of food into my yard and it looks like you have that all figured out. I would love chickens too, but my husband says no😭

[jimmason]

You have a great layout to your garden....the pathways look well use alot of hot beds here in the North....to get an early start.... we have horses....they give us alot of that " GOOD STUFF" 😊

[baileewilliams]

I love your very educational and informative videos. I have chickens and am wanting to plant fruit trees this year. I am wondering if you could give some more info or maybe a video about your goats and your set up for them. And how you store their milk. Again thank you so much for your wonderful videos!

[TimothyCollins-pxzl]

Great channel!! Lots of info, not fluff! Thx

[evelynrogers]

Just found your channel. Really like all your information.

[RhinoSmith]

I just found your channel. I'm from central Utah. I live your set up. I too am a small homesteaders and I love seeing and hearing ideas from others.

[stevenbertrand]

so well spoken, easy to follow and understand, also very helpful as we begin to build our homestead. Thanks for the information.

[debkincaid]

This is my first time raising chickens (6 in my flock). In the fall I started waterglassing the extra abundance until I reached 12 dozen stored in gallon jars in my basement. My hens crack me up--so fun! I've learned even more healthy hints from you today. Thanks so much for the video. Nee subscriber. ~ 🐓

[LeocenCadion]

I can't wait to start gardening and produce our very own food.

[This_Holy_Chaos]

I’d love to hear more about your spacing and pruning for your fruit trees. I’m eager to actually grow a decent crop of fruit but our dwarf trees aren’t cutting it. I’m heavily debating on getting some semi-dwarfs but I can’t find info on how to keep them smaller to manage the size better. I’d love to hear how to prune them to keep them smaller while not compromising on production 🤩

[teresam.]

Thank you for sharing such valuable information! Your homestead is beautiful! ❤