The Dirty Cowgirl Ranch
Backyard farming is the practice of using an average residential lot to grow food and sometimes even animals for consumption. Other common names for this practice are urban gardening or urban homesteading.
As food prices keep increasing and the quality of that food seems to be decreasing, more and more people are becoming interested in using their own backyards to provide for themselves.
You would be surprised how much homesteading can be done on a small residential lot!
In addition to three dogs and two cats, our backyard farm is home to four hens, two pullets and three chicks.
The hens and pullets can be found free ranging during daylight and warm and safe in their houses at night. The chicks stay in their house where it's always safe and warm and they have all the food they want.