New Homestead Bundle With a New Book by Me!

The 2026 Permies Homesteading and Permaculture Bundle is here. It contains $382 worth of homesteading and permaculture resources for just $35. This is a special introductory price! 

My own offering for the bundle is something new 

Goat Tales: Adventures, Misadventures, & Lessons 

Learned in Getting Started with Goats

Of misadventures and lessons learned, I've had plenty! All written to be enjoyed by others who like goats but don't want the adventure. 🐐This will probably be a Permies exclusive.

Here's a list of everything in the bundle:

• The Permaculture Design Toolkit 
• Homestead Pastured Poultry course by Diego Footer
• Growing Gourmet Mushrooms course with Michael Judd 
• Extended Truly Passive Greenhouse movie 
• Low Tech Laboratory Movie: The Extended Interviews 
• solar food dehydrator with rocket assist plans 
• freaky cheap heat movie as streaming plus one set of rocket mass heater plans
• Mark Shepard - Restoration Agriculture: Designing Your Perennial Farm presentation 
• log picnic table plans 3.0
• Goat Tales by Leigh Tate 
• worm bin design plans 
• Diego Footer on Permaculture Based Homesteads - from the Eat Your Dirt Summit 
• Laundry Detergent that Grows on Trees ebook by Kathryn Ossing
• Willow Feeders ebook 
• Living Woods magazine - Issue 10
• Cheesy Recipes by Kate Downham ebook
• Native Bee Guide by Crown Bees
• podcast gob 601-640
• 24 podcast review of "desert or paradise" by Sepp Holzer

The ones I'm especially excited about are the permaculture design toolkit (regular price $75), the growing mushroom course ($47), and the ebook by Kathryn Ossing ($9.97). I've also been wondering about a solar food dehydrator, but have been concerned that our climate is too humid. The rocket assist plans ($19.99) would solve that problem!

Here's the link, where you can find more details about all the items included. 

2026 Permies Homesteading and Permaculture Bundle

The special $35 price will be in effect for about a week. After that, it goes up to the regular price of $65.

New Homestead Bundle With a New Book by Me!

© June 2026 by Leigh at https://www.5acresandadream.com

Baby Chick Update

 The count is now 5 baby chicks.

Mama Sussex is still on the nest and we haven't seen any more for a couple of days now. Maybe this is it? We have no idea how many eggs she's setting on. The chicks are all holding their own and doing well. 

Mama Buff isn't keen on me taking photos, but I did manage to get some. So far they are staying in the coop. 

Baby Chick Update © June 2026 by Leigh

at https://www.5acresandadream.com

The Mama Team (Chicken Edition)

Sometime last month, this hen . . . 

 . . . went broody. A few weeks into it, she went out for food and water, and this hen . . . 

. . . took over the nest and wouldn't give it back. 

Not be be deterred, the first hen (Mama Buff) just hunkered down and waited. A day or so ago the eggs started to hatch. As the chicks popped out of the nest, she simply claimed them. 

As of this writing, we've got three chicks so far, all yellow like Buff Orpingtons. 

Meanwhile, our lone Speckled Sussex continues setting on those eggs, so we may have more soon. Her next door neighbor is Mama Muscovy, so we may have ducklings soon too!

My parting shot is of the daddy.

This is our grown-up First Baby Buff who was hatched last November. He's integrated into the rest of the flock now, and actually gets along with our senior rooster, Schooster. Centex asked about him, so here he is!

The Mama Team (Chicken Edition) © June 2026

by Leigh at https://www.5acresandadream.com