Suburban Homesteaders

So you live in a neighborhood with nosy neighbors or worse an HOA. The restrictions and the silliness of saying you can’t have this or that. I can understand big things like junk cars or letting grass grow crazy, but to say you can’t have itty bitty quail that don’t make hardly any noise is too far. I don’t see any reason to tell them and they won’t find out otherwise. Maybe add a water feature to your yard to drown out any possible noise. My hens coo a bit here and there and you don’t need roosters unless you want to reproduce. I guess what I am saying is where there is a will there is a way !

So you want fresh eggs at the minimum. You can keep Quail in small bird cages. Or keep them in a ground cage and put your garden around them. Put them Under a clever bench. Think outside the box! You can have fresh meat too. Quail can be cleaned with a simple pair of scissors and a bucket. No one would ever know! Bury the pieces in your garden to fertilize. Or maybe you just want meat and don’t care about eggs? Buy quail jumbo brown hatching eggs, incubate, grow and process. 8-10 weeks and done. If someone does notice, process and get them in the freezer before it becomes a tadoo! Maybe do this a few times a year.

Now is the time to prepare while the Lab meat is still on the horizon. Put meat in the freezer. Grow salad mixes in a pot. Grow tomato’s in a bale of straw. Grow potato’s in a bag. Just start with one thing. One thing to make you more self sufficient. One thing to know where your food comes from. And to realize how much cheaper it is than store bought.