Country Living / Rural Lifestyle
If you enjoy the benefits of a rural lifestyle, Southern States offers quality products and trained professionals to meet your needs. Our wide selection of products is sure to meet all of your country living needs from lawn and garden activities to pet care. Visit our web site regularly for valuable educational information and inspiration to help you fully enjoy the country lifestyle.
Feature Article: Well Maintenance Tips
Acreage living brings great benefits but also great responsibilities. Of these, perhaps the biggest of all is taking over the responsibility of your own water supply. You are a new acreage owner or perhaps you are considering country living where there is an existing water well on the property. The learning curve that goes with being your own water utility is interesting and sometimes challenging.
Starting a Small Hobby Farm
You’re about to buy a house in the country with a few acres and are looking forward to starting a small hobby farm. You’ve never raised livestock, but it’s been your American Dream to enjoy the lifestyle. How do you get started?
An Introduction to Raising Meat Goats
Goats are ideal for those new to keeping livestock as they are small (therefore requiring less land per head than cattle), fairly easy to handle and multi-purpose; potentially providing milk, meat and land management. For the hobby farmer, raising meat goats for showing is an ideal way to enjoy goats.
Feature Video: Water Bath Canning Demo
Unsure what to so with that bumper crop of vegetables and fruits from the garden this summer? Southern States will guide you through preserving your fruits and vegetables using water bath canning to enjoy year round.
Training Hunting Dogs
Trying to sum up the requirements needed to train a good hunting dog in a few hundred words is almost impossible. There are so many factors to consider. Breed, sex, quarry, type of hunting, the individual temperament of the dog and whether the dog will be working alone or with others, will all have an effect on the relationship and how the animal needs to be managed.
Chainsaw Maintenance
Gas engine powered chainsaws come in a variety of models made by many different manufacturers for anything from light garden use to heavy industrial machines that are used by professional loggers. There are things that you can do that will keep your chainsaw in serviceable condition and ready to work when you want it to.
