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Season Six Kick Off! Homesteading with Andrea: Life Off-the-Grid in British Columbia

This week, Caite and Arlene are back with Season Six and kick it off with a conversation with Andrea from Three Birch Homestead in British Columbia about what she’s “growing” on her off-grid homestead: garlic, two milk cows, goats (now planning to sell them), pigs, a few chickens, and turkeys. She describes using milk for cheese, yogurt, and butter, feeding skim milk to pigs, and plans to expand pork production due to demand. Andrea explains her path into homesteading, their off-grid systems (solar plus propane and wood heat), and challenges of farming with limited power and infrastructure…

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