A Bamboo Salt Lick Holder for Our Goats
We made a simple salt lick holder from bamboo, using its natural node as the base and a stainless-steel chain for strength and durability.
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The real story, one lesson at a time.
This is where we share what happens on the homestead: the good, the bad, the funny, the useful, and the things that didn't go according to plan. We don't want polished marketing. We want honest stories.
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Goats, food, garden, music, and the everyday work of building a homestead.
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- Bread, Cheese, and Old-School Food
- Self-Sufficiency Systems
- Mistakes and Lessons
- Harvests and Preserving
- Building the Homestead
- Family Life at De Klomp
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Honest stories from the land.
Healthy Goats Are Happy Goats
Our goats browse Napier, leaves and local fodder plants from our land. For lactating does we also add concentrates, protein, pollard and minerals so milk never comes at the cost of health.
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What We Make With Our Smoked Bacon Trimmings
The trimmings from our home-smoked bacon never go to waste. We slowly turn them into a rich bacon jam with onions, brown sugar and Jack Daniel’s.
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Building Our Goat Milking Stand
Milking close to the ground is hard on the back, so we built a raised goat milking stand from bamboo, reused coco lumber, and laminated marine plywood at a working height designed specifically for Jenalyn.
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How I Trim and Portion a Whole Beef Tenderloin
A whole beef tenderloin looks expensive and intimidating, but breaking it down at home is easier than many people think. This is how I remove the silver skin, clean the meat and cut it into steaks.
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Why We Pick Mangoes Green in the Philippines
In Europe and the United States, mangoes are usually sold ripe, soft, and sweet. In the Philippines, green mangoes are a food in their own right—crisp, sour, and eaten with salt, vinegar, fresh chili, or bagoong.
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How We Made Napier Grass Silage in a 47-Liter Drum
At De Klomp Homestead we turned fresh Napier grass into goat silage in a 47-liter drum, packing it layer by layer and compacting each layer by foot.
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Jenalyn Sings
Our second homestead album is here: Jenalyn Sings — fourteen Tagalog songs about family, love, challenges, hope, and everyday life at De Klomp.
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Why Every Homestead Needs Music
Music motivates our work, softens our rest, and shapes the energy of daily life at De Klomp — and it led us to release our first album from the homestead.
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Home-Smoked Bacon: Seven Days of Cure, Eight Hours of Smoke
We dry-cure pork for seven days, smoke it for eight hours over a carefully selected woodchip blend, then vacuum-pack and freeze our homemade bacon.
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Our First Dragon Fruit Harvest at De Klomp Santander
We harvested the first dragon fruit grown on our land at De Klomp Santander. A small but meaningful milestone in building our productive Cebu homestead.
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Why We Are Growing a Feeding Forest for Our Goats
We are growing a feeding forest in Santander, Cebu, to provide our goats with fresh, local and renewable fodder from our own land.
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