To honor International Homesteading Education Month, Mother Earth News and GRIT are giving away $16,000 worth of homesteading supplies in the Holy Hee-Haw! Homesteader Giveaway
Enter once by October 31, 2013 for your chance to win one of four homesteading packages!
Link: Enter Mother Earth News' Holy Hee-Haw! Homesteader Giveaway
Grand Prize Winner retail value $15,710
•One (1) 921 pressure canner from All American Canners
•Beekeeping Kit from Brushy Mountain
•Two complete hives, each hive contains plastic hive stand with frame perch, cypress hive stand with landing board, bottom board with monitoring board, four cypress supers with all frames and foundation to fill them, metal queen excluder, inner cover, English garden copper top, plastic entrance feeder and entrance reducer.
•Protective clothing
•MasterBee beekeeping suit with a zip-on Clear Vue Veil
•Ventilated cowhide gloves
•Extra veil and gloves
•Tools
•Smoker and 1-lb of smoker fuel
•10” standard hive tool
•Bee brush
•Frame grip
•Harvesting and extracting equipment
•Two escape screens
•Cold knife
•Capping scratcher
•Multi-use straining system for uncapping with filter
•Four-frame extractor
•Bottling tank with a course filter
•Educational information
•Backyard Beekeeping
•One-year subscription to Bee Culture Magazine
•English Garden Hive DVD
•Enrollment in Brushy Mountain Bee Farm’s Beginner Class
•Large burn incinerator from Burn Right Products
•Cheesemaking kit from The Cheese Connection
•Deluxe hard cheese kit with Red Wax professional cheese mold with follower lid, cheese ripening cave, large dial thermometer, eight ounces Flake Cheese salt, two ounces Calcium Chloride, two yards Butter Muslin, two ripening mats, five doses of Mesophilic and Thermophilic culture, one ounce lipase and annatto, two ounces liquid vegetarian rennet, ten cheese wrappers and labels and step-by-step recipes with pictures.
•Three (3) chicken waterers and cleaning kits from ChickenWaterer.com
•Greenhouse and compost bin from Exaco
•Model No. 99 grainmill and dehuller from Grainmaker
•Five (5) Grow Boxes from The Grow Box
•One (1) wheel hoe from Hoss Tools
•Broadfork from Meadow Creature
•Large chicken coop from Quail Manufacturing
•One year’s supply of Happy Hen Treats from Randall Burkey
•12 Happy Hen Treat Mealworm Frenzy
•36 Happy Hen Treat Party Mix
•24 Happy Hen Treat Cakes
•4 Happy Hen Treat Balls
•6 Happy Hen Coop Cleaner
•$220 gift card from Rosie’s Workwear
•Wise Way pellet Stove from Smokey’s Stoves
•PowerSource 1800 solar generator from Solutions from Science
•Literature from Storey Publishing
•Put 'Em Up
•Beginner's Guide to Preserving Food at Home
•Homegrown Honey Bees
•Storey’s Guide to Keeping Honey Bees
•Build Your Own Beekeeping Equipment
•The Backyard Homestead
•The Homeowner's Energy Handbook
•Home Cheesemaking
•The Home Creamery
•Backyard Homestead Guide to Farm Animals
•Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens
•The Vegetable Gardener's Book of Building Projects
•Complete Compost Gardening Guide
•Break Making
•Homegrown Whole Grains
•How to Buy the Right Plants, Tools and Garden Supplies
•Mobile Poultry Slaughterhouse
•Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks
•Storey’s Guide to Raising Poultry
•Reinventing the Chicken Coop
•Storey’s Basic Country Skills
•Just in Case
◦Fresh Egg Cookbook
◦Reinventing the Chicken Coop
•$200 gift card for chickens from Stromberg’s Chicken and Game Birds
•Six (6) Patio Lanterns from ThermaCell
•Seed package from Southern Exposure
Second Place Winner retail value $1035
•One (1) 921 pressure canner from All American Canners
•Small burn incinerator from Burn Right Products
•Cheesemaking kit from The Cheese Connection
•Deluxe hard cheese kit with Red Wax professional cheese mold with follower lid, cheese ripening cave, large dial thermometer, eight ounces Flake Cheese salt, two ounces Calcium Chloride, two yards Butter Muslin, two ripening mats, five doses of Mesophilic and Thermophilic culture, one ounce lipase and annatto, two ounces liquid vegetarian rennet, ten cheese wrappers and labels and step-by-step recipes with pictures.
•Five (5) Grow Boxes from The Grow Box
•Five (5) Patio Lanterns from ThermaCell
Third Place Winner retail value $240
•Cheesemaking kit from The Cheese Connection
•Deluxe hard cheese kit with Red Wax professional cheese mold with follower lid, cheese ripening cave, large dial thermometer, eight ounces Flake Cheese salt, two ounces Calcium Chloride, two yards Butter Muslin, two ripening mats, five doses of Mesophilic and Thermophilic culture, one ounce lipase and annatto, two ounces liquid vegetarian rennet, ten cheese wrappers and labels and step-by-step recipes with pictures.
•Two (2) Grow Boxes from The Grow Box
•Two (2) Patio Lanterns from ThermaCell
Fourth Place Winner retail value $210
•Cheesemaking kit from The Cheese Connection
◦•large dial thermometer, eight ounces Flake Cheese salt, two ounces Calcium Chloride, two yards Butter Muslin, two ripening mats, five doses of Mesophilic and Thermophilic culture, one ounce lipase and annatto, two ounces liquid vegetarian rennet, ten cheese wrappers and labels and step-by-step recipes with pictures.
•One (1) Grow Box from The Grow Box
•Two (2) Patio Lanterns from ThermaCell