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The Unbound Blog
Welcome to our blog! Here, you’ll find recipes for herbal remedies, chicken keeping, gardening tips, DIYs, and all the tips, tricks, lessons, and skills you’ll need to manage a homestead and become more self-sufficient. Whether you’re new to this lifestyle or you’ve been doing it for years, we hope you find our content entertaining as well as educational.
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5 Organic Soil Amendments for the Medicinal Garden
Spring is in the air, and while it’s still too early for many of us to plant, it is the perfect time to consider soil amendments to help...
Mar 253 min read
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Prepping Your Flock For Spring
As the snow melts, the days get longer, and shoots of green emerge from the earth, there's no denying that spring has finally sprung....
Mar 65 min read
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10 Things To Do On The Homestead In September
Oh, Autumn…how I’ve missed you. I’ve officially decided that fall is the season of my soul. Yes, summer has sunkissed days, but the heat...
Sep 23, 20244 min read
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12 Best Herbs for Chicken Health
Whether you’re new to flock tending or you’ve been raising chickens for years, you may be surprised that just as they can improve our...
Aug 7, 20245 min read
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8 Tips For Planting For a Fall Harvest
Summer feels like the busy season in the garden. Tomatoes, squash, and other summer-loving plants are in overdrive, and sometimes,...
Jul 23, 20245 min read
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What I’ve Learned after 3 Years of Growing Our Own Food
Since our move back to Colorado in 2019, I've been cultivating a garden. However, only when we settled on our homestead in 2021 did I...
Jul 9, 20245 min read
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Wild Harvest: 5 Tips for Beginner Foragers
Foraging is a wonderful pastime that connects you with nature while allowing you to tune in to something ancient and primal within...
Jul 2, 20245 min read
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Tending to Your Flocks Summer Needs
For most of the US, even though summer is still a few days away, the heat is already here. That means it’s time to discuss tending to...
Jun 17, 20244 min read
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Natural Pest Control in the Garden
It only takes garden pests a few days to decimate a garden completely and few things are more disheartening to a gardener. The reality is...
Jun 5, 20246 min read
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Transitioning Chicks from Brooder to Coop
Wondering when it’s time to begin transitioning your chicks from brooder to coop? The good news is if your chicks arrived in early...
May 28, 20247 min read
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How To Clean Foraged Plants
Foragable plants are abundant around our homestead, and harvesting them is one of my favorite pastimes. Whether for food or medicine,...
May 16, 20244 min read
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DIY Wall o' Water to Protect Your Tomato Seedlings
If you’ve been following us, you know that our Colorado homestead is in USDA planting Zone  5B, which has a short growing season. This...
May 15, 20242 min read
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Spring Enrichment For Your Flock
Warmer days are finally upon us. Days are longer, greens are emerging, bugs are waking, but we haven’t quite reached the bounty of summer...
Apr 16, 20245 min read
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Orange Cinnamon Chicken Coop Cleaner
We use all-natural homemade cleaners  around our homestead. I set time aside each month to whip up big batches of everything from pine...
Mar 14, 20243 min read
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5 Ways to Add Self-Sufficiency to 2024
More and more these days, thoughts of self-sufficiency are becoming top of mind for more people. When I look back on what feels like a...
Jan 5, 20245 min read
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Keeping Your Homestead Productive This Winter
The chill of winter is setting in here on our mountaintop homestead, and with cool temps comes a familiar shift in our everyday activity....
Nov 21, 20235 min read
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DIY Chicken Frostbite Balm
Winter is nearly here, and nighttime temperatures in Colorado are beginning to drop dramatically. It won’t be long before we see days...
Nov 1, 20234 min read
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Our 5 Favorite Things to Forage
Each season, one of my favorite things to do as the days get warmer is to forage for all the wild edibles and medicinals on and around...
Sep 9, 20236 min read
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8 Ways to Keep Your Flock Cool
The Dog Days of Summer are upon us, and it can be hard to figure out how to cool yourself off, let alone your chickens. Our fluffy little...
Jul 28, 20234 min read
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Preparing the Homestead for Winter Weather
Oh my, Spring, Summer, Fall, they all went by in a blur and it’s (probably beyond) time to prepare the homestead for winter weather. The...
Nov 1, 20228 min read
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