How Our 15-Acre Homestead Feeds a Family of 7 (Spring 2026 Tour)

This is how our 15‑acre homestead feeds our family of seven and today a guest family tags along so you can learn through their questions and hands‑on chores. As we move mobile coops, harvest eggs, and soak and store feed right by the chickens, I explain why everything here is designed to work together: deep‑bedding runs that self‑clean, chickens on wood chips making compost next to raised beds, and front‑yard gardens that return three times their cost in food using intensive planting.

We walk from the 1,400‑square‑foot front‑yard homestead (seven raised beds, herb garden, comfrey, and a chicken tractor you can build from our Homestead Builds plans) out to the greenhouse, cows, sheep shelter, and broad‑acre pastures, talking about pecking order, how often to replace laying flocks, where to plant fruit and shade trees to “forest the pasture and pasture the forest,” and how we run water and temporary fences until they prove themselves over years. You’ll also see the boys’ milking station setup, how we skim cream and manage raw milk, how chickens and ducks turn woodchips plus manure into hot compost with nothing more than carbon, nitrogen, air, and water, and why delayed gratification is the mindset that makes a small homestead truly productive.

If you’re starting (or scaling) a homestead and want a practical, numbers‑backed look at how systems, proximity, and kid‑powered routines can actually feed a big family, this walkthrough is for you—like, subscribe, and share it with someone dreaming of turning their acreage into abundance.

Links mentioned
• Homestead Builds book (Chickshaw, chicken tractor, and other build plans)https://www.amazon.com/s?k=homestead+...