Food Sovereignty
Flock size, housing and winter care, with the egg math run honestly.
How Many Chickens for a Family of 4? Honest Egg and Cost Math
Flock sizing from real laying rates, winter and molt gaps, feed cost per dozen and the break-even point against $6 store eggs — from a flock we have kept for 12 years.
10 minBeginner
Winter Chicken Care Without Heat Lamps: Ventilation and Deep Litter
Ventilation above roost height, deep litter management, water strategies and predator hardware for keeping a backyard flock healthy through a hard winter.
9 minBeginner
Matched packages
First-Harvest GuaranteeGarden
4.8 · 128 reviews
Four 4×8 rot-resistant cedar beds, corner hardware, landscape cardboard and a full season of drip line.
“I'd killed two gardens before this. The calendar told me exactly what to sow and when — we stopped buying produce in June.”
$689$749
First-Flush GuaranteeGarden
4.9 · 96 reviews
Sawdust spawn for 20 logs, an angle-grinder inoculation tool, wax and a marking system that survives the woods.
“Two beds and four hens. I stopped buying eggs in March and produce in June. My grocery bill is down about a third and my kids eat things they used to refuse.”
$168$189
Never-Again GuaranteeWater
4.7 · 57 reviews
Low-pressure emitters, filtration and headers designed to run off a tank at 4 psi — no pump anywhere in the loop.
“We lost power for five days in January. The neighbors drove to a hotel. We had light, heat, and water at 42 psi the whole time because it all runs downhill.”
$412
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