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About Troy McClung

Troy desires to be the quintessential family man, although he ends up being Clark Griswold most of the time. He lives on a rural homestead farm in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains with his beautiful wife and two young boys. He loves everything outdoors and when he is not running his marketing company, he enjoys quiet family time at home on the farm.

Why I try to cut down SIX trees a day

Ok, that title may have grabbed your attention and some of you may be intrigued while others of you are searching for a stick and an old pair of underwear to fashion a torch. Before the pitchforks get sharpened and the fires start blazing, let me take a moment to quantify that statement. Yes, [...]

By |2020-11-17T09:27:57-05:00August 10th, 2020|Homesteading|3 Comments

Chicken Processing equipment is the biggest barrier to starting a poultry operation on your homestead

It appears that the demand for local, farm-raised protein is steadily increasing. Even prior to the pandemic which caused a run on grocery store meat supplies, we saw an increasing interest in our pastured products. During this pandemic, I think a person might consider knifing someone for a pound of hamburger (Walmart meat section [...]

By |2020-07-19T14:58:18-04:00July 19th, 2020|Homesteading|0 Comments

The Challenges of Farming Mud

So, before I get into this lament/satire about all the rain we have experienced in the past several months, I want to public recognize if I had to choose form having excessive rain or drought conditions like some of you regularly experience throughout the country, I would take the excessive rain every time. This [...]

By |2020-02-11T21:35:18-05:00February 11th, 2020|Homesteading|0 Comments

Is it ok to permanently “dispatch” predators on your homestead? (part 1)

So, we get a great number of comments on our Youtube videos and I try to respond to each one of them (even the one where the guy called me a hipster poser) in a timely and professional manner. Well, one comment that came through this week really got me thinking. The comment involved the [...]

By |2018-01-28T22:21:56-05:00January 28th, 2018|Homesteading|10 Comments

Join us for our 2018 Homestead Food Spending Challenge

As a homesteader, we have this romantic notion of sustaining ourselves completely from our homestead. We see a future where we don't need to purchase food and other items in order to maintain the freedom we want at home. While that is a noble dream, it is almost unreachable for most of us. Many of [...]

By |2018-01-01T16:02:32-05:00January 1st, 2018|Homeschooling|1 Comment
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