Ready for tough times? These are the homesteading and survival skills you need to start working on right now.
Homesteading can offer an incredibly rewarding and healthy lifestyle. While living on a homestead, you’ll enjoy fresh and delicious food and get lots of exercise. That said, it’s certainly not for everyone. There are plenty of disadvantages of homesteading to consider. Homesteading is time-consuming and requires an enormous amount of labor. You’ll also have to […]
There is a calmness to the outdoors. There is peace when you start seeing how animals and food grow all on their own without much human interaction. It reminds you of our hope, promises, and
We've all seen them. Those huge listicles with ideas for making money on your homestead. A laundry list of things that could potentially bring in income, but mostly just a few dollars here or there.
Use some of the stuff you have collected around your home and turn it into a useful item that you can use for your garden, compost, goats, chickens, and more.
We've all seen them. Those huge listicles with ideas for making money on your homestead. A laundry list of things that could potentially bring in income, but mostly just a few dollars here or there.
Inside: How to design a homestead layout that works with the land, not against it, so your final result is anything but cookie-cutter. When I first moved here, I had grand visions of a storybook homestead with neatly laid-out gardens, orchards, and pastures. Apple trees lining the driveway. A huge vegetable garden with a white
Composting is a natural process we can use to our advantage in the garden. Take a look at some of the general guidelines so you can learn how to compost.
To be a successful homesteader, you need to have a variety of homesteading skills: gardening, food storage, animal husbandry, and more.
We’ll focus on 10 essential storage crops that will keep you well fed all winter and make you less reliant on the grocery store.
Discover 101 homesteading essentials: Key tools and skills for sustainable, self-sufficient living for urban or rural homesteaders.
Don't have a traditional homestead yet, but you're still wanting to feel like a homesteader?! Check out this list of 27 homesteading skills you can practice up on before you have an ACTUAL homestead. Please note: This post may contain affiliate links, for our full disclosure click HERE. Are you interested in jumping into homesteading, even
Discover essential tips and insights for starting your homesteading journey. Perfect for beginners looking to embrace self-sufficient living.
Self-reliant living starts with re-skilling, and unless you have a mentor handy, there's no better way than hitting the books. These are my favorite books for self reliant living, and they're taught me more than
In this post we’ll explore some basic homestead layout principles and share our 5 acre homestead layout as an example.
It’s 2024 and everyone loves the idea of homesteading. And what’s more natural than a beautiful homesteading design that incorporates houseplants that can benefit your home year-round! Houseplants offer much more than aesthetically pleasing greenery. They are essential elements in homesteading designs, providing a host of benefits that enhance your off-grid lifestyle. From improving indoor … Create a Off-Grid Oasis in 2024: Houseplants as Essential Elements in Homesteading Designs Read More »
When I first learned that there was someone successfully growing spices like ginger, turmeric, cumin and vanilla at home in North Carolina, my mind was honestly blown. I had honestly never considered it could even be possible to grow "exotic" spices like these at home in North America. But Tasha Greer, author of the brand
Inside: The best skills to master for homesteaders, wherever you live right now. Reading is fun, but practicing is a million times better. Roll up your sleeves and work on these now. It's so easy to wish away your whole life, waiting for your dream property, dream job, dream whatever. And when you're living in
Right now we are just a few hours away from the New Year- when this post comes out we will be a few days into the new year. For most of us a new year is a new opportunity to...Read More
Are you homestead dreaming? That dream might be closer than you think! Find out what homestead skills you can start practicing NOW, no matter where you are!
Food preservation methods go way beyond the modern techniques we use today. Older techniques like salting, fermenting, and dehydrating have their place, even in modern kitchens. Learn about all the different ways you can extend
Low maintenance farm animals promote sustainable practices and are a wise choice for beginners or those with limited experience in farming.
Avoid trips to the store, reduce your carbon footprint, and save heaps of money by learning to make your own household items.
There are a million ways to make money from your homestead. Find out the surprising number one way we make money online from our homestead!
Feeling the pull to simple country living but you're stuck in town? Here are 30 skills to build while you're homestead dreaming!
Come dig (or, don't dig!) into natural no-till gardening - what it is, how to do it, and the stellar benefits it offers to organic soil and plant health.
Looking for some homesteading books to help you on your journey to self sufficiency and food freedom? This list will help you!
American Amish communities use a different power grid: “God’s Grid.” Here are the skills they use to make it work.
Many of the things we use today won't be available after an economic collapse. Homesteaders need to become familiar with these rare skills.
Cheesemaking recipes can be hard to find these days, but they're becoming more common as this old-time skill becomes a popular hobby in the kitchen. Cheesemaking doesn't have to be difficult, and I've included delicious
Are you not sure if you can make homesteading work with the amount of land you have? Here are 28 farm layout design ideas to inspire you.
Can you really homestead on 1 acre of land or less? Yes! Here's how to make the most of your small homestead by choosing the best livestock and plants!
Don't have a traditional homestead yet, but you're still wanting to feel like a homesteader?! Check out this list of 27 homesteading skills you can practice up on before you have an ACTUAL homestead. Please note: This post may contain affiliate links, for our full disclosure click HERE. Are you interested in jumping into homesteading, even
Off grid living, many are intrigued by it and some dream about it. How about you, ever dreamt of living off-grid? If so then today’s topic is for you my friend. We’re talking about just
Homesteading isn’t a process that happens overnight. Purchase homestead tools as you need them until you have everything covered.
When I set the goal to eat only the veggies from my garden for a whole year, I had one big problem. I had no idea how many plants we needed to grow for a years worth of food! Since I grow for six people in a 3500 square foot garden with some space allocated for fruits, my amounts needed to be precise.
We've all seen them. Those huge listicles with ideas for making money on your homestead. A laundry list of things that could potentially bring in income, but mostly just a few dollars here or there.
15 Vintage Skills That Can Be Learned On YouTube! There are many skills you can taught simply by watching well done YouTube videos for homesteaders.
Homesteading Resources - Real food, food preservation, gardening, local food, natural health, homestead animals, homemaking, survivalism, preparedness.
Here are some great reasons to start raising ducks on your small farm. Raising ducks is a great choice and they are fun as well. Raising ducks ..
This post contains affiliate links. Full disclosure can be found here. A homestead pantry is one filled with homemade and homegrown ingredients,…
These are my all-time favorite books for learning about self-sufficient living and using once you are living the homestead dream.
Perennial vegetables - crops you can plant once, and harvest year after year - are relatively rare in the plant food world, but save you tonnes of money!
Advice on getting started with keeping honeybees by Linda Tillman of 'Linda's Bees'. Includes tips on hive location, equipment, books, and where to begin.
If you find yourself struggling to try to figure out how much to plant per person in the garden for a year's worth of food - look no further.
Don't throw away your sawdust! We found a few dozen uses in and around the homestead you'll be glad you learned.
In order to be successful as a homesteader, you need to realize that homesteading requires hard work and dedication.