{"id":1212,"date":"2026-07-31T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/?page_id=1212"},"modified":"2026-10-06T23:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:00:42","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/","title":{"rendered":"Panimalay"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"pgamo-hero\" id=\"top\" style=\"min-height:46vh;background-color:#572e2e;\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-hero-side pgamo-hero-side--left\">\n<span class=\"pgamo-hero-side__label\">New Here?<\/span>\n<h3 class=\"pgamo-hero-side__heading\">Start Free Today<\/h3>\n<p class=\"pgamo-hero-side__text\">Enroll in the Ministerial Bible Study Series &#8212; 66 books, 251 lessons, completely free forever.<\/p>\n<a class=\"pgamo-hero-side__btn\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/courses\/bible-study\/\">Enroll Free &rarr;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pgamo-hero__inner\">\n<h1 class=\"pgamo-hero__heading\">PGAMO Homestead Living<\/h1><p class=\"pgamo-hero__subheading\">Christian homesteading, preserving and foraging \u2014 stewarding the gifts of God&#8217;s creation, together. Free tools and a community for every family that grows, raises and gathers its own food.<\/p><div class=\"pgamo-hero__buttons\">\n<a class=\"pgamo-btn pgamo-btn--primary\" href=\"\/ceb\/start-here\/\">Start Here<\/a>\n<a class=\"pgamo-btn pgamo-btn--ghost\" href=\"\/ceb\/homestead\/\">Open My Homestead Tools<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pgamo-hero-side pgamo-hero-side--right\">\n<span class=\"pgamo-hero-side__label\">From Our Authors<\/span>\n<h3 class=\"pgamo-hero-side__heading\">Meet Our Contributing Authors<\/h3>\n<p class=\"pgamo-hero-side__text\">Read devotionals and Bible studies shared by members of our community.<\/p>\n<a class=\"pgamo-hero-side__btn\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/groups\/contributing-authors\/forum\/\">Read Their Articles &rarr;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<nav class=\"pgamo-section-nav pgamo-section-nav--sticky\" aria-label=\"Page sections\">\n<ul class=\"pgamo-section-nav__list\">\n<li><a href=\"#paths\">Choose Your Path<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#tools\">Free Tools<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#this-month\">This Month<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#devotion\">Devotion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#community\">Community<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav>\n\n\n<section class=\"pgamo-feature-cards\" id=\"paths\">\n<h2 class=\"pgamo-section-heading\">Choose Your Path<\/h2><div class=\"pgamo-feature-cards__grid\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card__image\" style=\"background-image:url('https:\/\/pgamo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/homestead-garden-raised-bed-300x300.jpg')\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card__body\">\n<h3>Just Starting Out<\/h3>\n<p>Fifteen steps to a working homestead, from your first garden bed and laying hens to a full pantry.<\/p><a class=\"pgamo-feature-card__link\" href=\"\/ceb\/start-here\/\">Start here &rarr;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card__image\" style=\"background-image:url('https:\/\/pgamo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/homestead-chickens-in-coop-300x300.jpg')\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card__body\">\n<h3>Raising Animals<\/h3>\n<p>Chickens, rabbits, goats, sheep, pigs, cattle, ducks, turkeys, geese, quail and bees \u2014 from birth to harvest or sale.<\/p><a class=\"pgamo-feature-card__link\" href=\"\/ceb\/homestead\/#hs-livestock\">See the animal trackers &rarr;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card__image\" style=\"background-image:url('https:\/\/pgamo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/homestead-canning-pantry-300x300.jpg')\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card__body\">\n<h3>Growing and Preserving Food<\/h3>\n<p>A planting calendar from your frost dates, then canning, curing, cheese, fermenting and the root cellar.<\/p><a class=\"pgamo-feature-card__link\" href=\"\/ceb\/preserving\/\">Kitchen and pantry &rarr;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"pgamo-feature-cards\" id=\"more-paths\">\n<h2 class=\"pgamo-section-heading\">Every Season of Homestead Life<\/h2><div class=\"pgamo-feature-cards__grid\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card__body\">\n<h3>Ready for Hard Times<\/h3>\n<p>Stored water, a preparedness plan, foraging, and hunting, fishing and trapping.<\/p><a class=\"pgamo-feature-card__link\" href=\"\/ceb\/self-reliance\/\">Self-reliance &rarr;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card__body\">\n<h3>Teaching Your Children<\/h3>\n<p>A free K\u201312 homeschool planner, kids&#8217; 4-H project records and seasonal devotions.<\/p><a class=\"pgamo-feature-card__link\" href=\"\/ceb\/faith-learning\/homeschool\/\">Homeschool &rarr;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card__body\">\n<h3>Selling from Your Farm<\/h3>\n<p>Your own farm stand, customers and orders paid at pickup, and the selling rules for your state.<\/p><a class=\"pgamo-feature-card__link\" href=\"\/ceb\/homestead\/farm-stand\/\">Open a farm stand &rarr;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"pgamo-feature-cards\" id=\"tools\">\n<h2 class=\"pgamo-section-heading\">Popular Free Tools<\/h2><div class=\"pgamo-feature-cards__grid\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card__body\">\n<h3>Chores &amp; Reminders<\/h3>\n<p>A daily list for every animal and the garden, with email and phone-calendar reminders.<\/p><a class=\"pgamo-feature-card__link\" href=\"\/ceb\/homestead\/chores\/\">Today&#039;s chores &rarr;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card__body\">\n<h3>Chicken Tracker<\/h3>\n<p>Daily egg log, lay rate, feed cost and what each dozen really costs you.<\/p><a class=\"pgamo-feature-card__link\" href=\"\/ceb\/homestead\/chicken-tracker\/\">Track your flock &rarr;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card__body\">\n<h3>Homestead Calculators<\/h3>\n<p>Feed, hay, meat, eggs and milk for your family, breeding dates, and canning and freezing.<\/p><a class=\"pgamo-feature-card__link\" href=\"\/ceb\/homestead\/calculators\/\">Open the calculators &rarr;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"pgamo-hs hs-month\" id=\"this-month\"><h2 class=\"hs-month-title\">This month on the homestead: Oktubre<\/h2><div class=\"hs-month-grid\"><div class=\"hs-card\"><h4>In the garden and orchard<\/h4><ul class=\"hs-month-list\"><li><strong>Pick tender crops before frost<\/strong><span>Bring in tomatoes, peppers, basil, squash and melons; green tomatoes ripen indoors.<\/span><\/li><li><strong>Put beds to rest<\/strong><span>Pull spent plants, sow a cover crop or mulch with leaves; note what grew where for next year\u2019s rotation.<\/span><\/li><li><strong>Clean up dropped fruit and leaves<\/strong><span>Rake up fallen fruit and diseased leaves to cut down next year\u2019s pests and scab.<\/span><\/li><li><strong>Guard young trunks for winter<\/strong><span>Put on tree guards against rabbits and voles and paint south-facing trunks white against sunscald.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><a class=\"hs-hub-go\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/homestead\/garden\/\">Open the garden \u2192<\/a><\/div><div class=\"hs-card\"><h4>With the animals<\/h4><ul class=\"hs-month-list\"><li>Hens molt and slow down laying \u2014 give extra protein<\/li><li>Winterize waterers and check heater cords<\/li><li>Bring animals off pasture before it\u2019s grazed out<\/li><\/ul><a class=\"hs-hub-go\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/homestead\/chores\/\">Today\u2019s chores \u2192<\/a><\/div><div class=\"hs-card\"><h4>With the bees<\/h4><ul class=\"hs-month-list\"><li><strong>Winterize the hives<\/strong><span>Entrance reducers and mouse guards on, a slight forward tilt, and a quilt box or insulation where winters are cold.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><a class=\"hs-hub-go\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/homestead\/bees\/\">Bee tracker \u2192<\/a><\/div><div class=\"hs-card\"><h4>Wild foods in season<\/h4><div class=\"hs-forage-grid hs-month-chips\"><a class=\"hs-forage-chip\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/foraging\/seasonal-guide\/?item=chicken-woods#chicken-woods\">Chicken of the woods<\/a><a class=\"hs-forage-chip\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/foraging\/seasonal-guide\/?item=hen-woods#hen-woods\">Hen of the woods (maitake)<\/a><a class=\"hs-forage-chip\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/foraging\/seasonal-guide\/?item=dandelion#dandelion\">Dandelion<\/a><a class=\"hs-forage-chip\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/foraging\/seasonal-guide\/?item=chickweed#chickweed\">Chickweed<\/a><a class=\"hs-forage-chip\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/foraging\/seasonal-guide\/?item=wild-grape#wild-grape\">Wild grapes &amp; muscadines<\/a><a class=\"hs-forage-chip\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/foraging\/seasonal-guide\/?item=pawpaw#pawpaw\">Pawpaws<\/a><a class=\"hs-forage-chip\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/foraging\/seasonal-guide\/?item=persimmon#persimmon\">Wild persimmons<\/a><a class=\"hs-forage-chip\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/foraging\/seasonal-guide\/?item=black-walnut#black-walnut\">Black walnuts<\/a><a class=\"hs-forage-chip\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/foraging\/seasonal-guide\/?item=hickory#hickory\">Hickory nuts<\/a><a class=\"hs-forage-chip\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/foraging\/seasonal-guide\/?item=pecan#pecan\">Wild pecans<\/a><a class=\"hs-forage-chip\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/foraging\/seasonal-guide\/?item=acorn#acorn\">Acorns<\/a><\/div><a class=\"hs-hub-go\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/foraging\/seasonal-guide\/\">Seasonal foraging guide \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div><p class=\"hs-hint hs-month-note\">Garden, orchard and bee jobs are timed from typical mid-April and mid-October frost dates. Members who set their location get jobs timed to their own frost dates.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"pgamo-hs hs-home-devotion\" id=\"devotion\"><aside class=\"hs-devotion\" aria-label=\"Seasonal devotion\"><span class=\"hs-hub-kicker\">Oktubre devotion<\/span><h4>Laying Up in the Good Years<\/h4><blockquote><p>\u201cAnd let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.\u201d<\/p><cite>Genesis 41:35 (KJV)<\/cite><\/blockquote><p>Joseph stored grain in the plenty so that many lived through the famine. Wise storage is not fear; it is stewardship, and it lets us help others in hard times.<\/p><p class=\"hs-devotion-week\"><strong>This week:<\/strong> Count what is in the pantry, freezer and woodshed, and fill one gap before winter.<\/p><a class=\"hs-devotion-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/faith-learning\/devotions\/\">All seasonal devotions \u2192<\/a><\/aside><\/div>\n\n\n<section class=\"pgamo-feature-cards\" id=\"community\">\n<h2 class=\"pgamo-section-heading\">Grow Together<\/h2><div class=\"pgamo-feature-cards__grid\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card__body\">\n<h3>Homestead Groups<\/h3>\n<p>Homesteading, gardening, livestock, food preservation and foraging \u2014 ask questions and share what works.<\/p><a class=\"pgamo-feature-card__link\" href=\"\/ceb\/community\/#homestead\">Join a group &rarr;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card__body\">\n<h3>Trading Post &amp; Seed Swap<\/h3>\n<p>Buy, sell, trade or give away livestock, seed, hay and equipment with members near you.<\/p><a class=\"pgamo-feature-card__link\" href=\"\/ceb\/community\/trading-post\/\">Browse listings &rarr;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-feature-card__body\">\n<h3>Farm Stands<\/h3>\n<p>Buy eggs, meat, vegetables and honey straight from members&#8217; homesteads and pay at pickup.<\/p><a class=\"pgamo-feature-card__link\" href=\"\/ceb\/community\/farm-stands\/\">Find a farm stand &rarr;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"pgamo-text-image pgamo-text-image--right\" id=\"about\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-text-image__inner\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-text-image__media\" style=\"background-image:url('https:\/\/pgamo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/homestead-garden-raised-bed-683x1024.jpg')\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pgamo-text-image__content\">\n<h2>Seedtime and Harvest<\/h2><div class=\"pgamo-text-image__text\"><p>\u201cWhile the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.\u201d \u2014 Genesis 8:22<\/p>\n<p>PGAMO Homestead Living is a Christian community for families who want to grow, raise, gather and put up their own food \u2014 on acres in the country or a backyard in town. Every tool here is free for registered members, your records stay private to you, and the fellowship is open to all.<\/p>\n<\/div><a class=\"pgamo-btn pgamo-btn--primary\" href=\"\/ceb\/register-2\/\">Create a Free Account<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"pgamo-text-image pgamo-text-image--left pgamo-text-image--dark\" id=\"faith\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-text-image__inner\">\n<div class=\"pgamo-text-image__media\" style=\"background-image:url('https:\/\/pgamo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Design_sem_nome-2026-06-17T144717.579-704x1024.jpg')\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pgamo-text-image__content\">\n<h2>Faith &amp; Learning<\/h2><div class=\"pgamo-text-image__text\"><p>The Bible college continues: the Ministerial Bible Study Series walks through all 66 books of Scripture in 251 lessons, free to enroll and yours to keep, with Master&#8217;s and Doctorate in Theology programs, a reading library, scholarships and mission grants for those who want to go deeper.<\/p>\n<\/div><a class=\"pgamo-btn pgamo-btn--primary\" href=\"\/ceb\/faith-learning\/\">Explore Faith &amp; Learning<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1212","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9227,"href":"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1212\/revisions\/9227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pgamo.com\/ceb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}