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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.

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

Does Cheap Land Still Exist?

There is a trend I have seen building in my state. No, it isn't associated with pop culture, fashion, or entertainment (quite frankly, I don't think I could spot a trend in those areas), it is a trend to find rural land. Several of my friends have stopped me at various random encounters and [...]

By |2017-11-30T23:03:57-05:00November 30th, 2017|Homesteading|0 Comments

Fall hog processing is a bittersweet time on the homestead

If I have said it once, I probably have said it 100 times - I love this time of year. There is something about the changing temperatures with cool evenings and brisk mornings. Our southern mountain that faces the house is covered in a variety of hardwoods. In mid-October, the trees slowly begin to [...]

By |2017-11-04T21:53:12-04:00November 4th, 2017|Homesteading|2 Comments
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