Victor Justin Rhodes lists ten winter projects for small farms: build garden beds, repair high tunnels, fix animal shelters, compost leaves, clean up debris, manage early lamb births, install fencing and water lines, clear fallen trees, stack firewood, and build a secret escape tunnel with kids. Do them now instead of scrambling in spring.
10 things you could do this winter to prevent spring fever. Go ahead and build your beds, cover them for spring, repair the high tunnels. How about structures for your animals? Time to collect leaves. Pick up— we don't want spring cleaning, we want winter cleaning. 6, we can beat better animals. Lamb babies, it's okay, we can have lamb babies in January. Number 8, how about fencing or animal systems being put in place? It's time to fix stuff like this tree that falling down in the creek. Up there we're clearing. Should I give you a bonus? Water line. It's time to put in water lines. Firewood. Time to do firewood. This be another bonus? How many we at? How many we at, Austin? Fun stuff for the kids. We built them a secret escape tunnel. This kind of stuff is hard to do in the busy growing months.
If I had to start my Homestead all over again, it could only pick one animal… 
