On the Homestead

  • How to Make a Food Forest to Feed Your Family For Generations
    Having an abundant food forest on your own property can be a win for sustainability and permaculture gardening, and fill your cellar with delicious and nutritious foods, all year long.
  • What Does It Mean to Homestead: A Perspective Collaboration
    More and more, especially this last year, we’re hearing about homesteading and providing for one’s self. But what does it mean to homestead?
  • 5 Old-Fashioned Skills to Teach Your Kids
    Our grandparents grew up learning these old-fashioned skills but they started to get lost in the generation of our parents and are just about completely lost with millennials. Time to bring them back!
  • 2021 is the Year of Self-Survival
    Survivalist, self-reliant, self-sufficient – however you want to look at it or whichever path you want to go down, 2021 is the year of people relying on themselves and their abilities to get by.
  • Homestead Reflection and Goal Setting
    Do you set goals and action plans for your year? It is so incredibly helpful to making progress on your homestead, or really anywhere in life.
  • How to Set Goals For Your Homestead
    You have a million ideas for what you want your homestead to be and you want it NOW but everything seems to take too long and it’s just so overwhelming. Where do you even begin?!
  • How To Review And Evaluate Your Homesteading Goals For Success
    If you want to reach your goals you need to know where you’ve been, and when to pivot. This quick list will teach you what you need to know to rock your homesteading goals. Progress over perfection!
  • 12 Homestead Skills to Learn This Winter
    You know that feeling of overwhelm when you look at everything you want to learn about homesteading, and you want to know it all NOW? Winter is the best time to learn the skills you need come summer, and its possible.
  • Homeschooling For Beginners
    Homeschooling is as complicated or as simple as you want to make it. Preschoolers are the easiest and most fun!
  • How to Start Your Homestead
    Whether buy your food from a local farmer’s market, use cloth napkins, compost, or go fully off grid, homesteading can happen anywhere and on any scale.
  • What is Homesteading?
    A cellar full of shelves lined with canning jars of homegrown harvests, chickens in the yard and a big, beautiful garden… that’s usually what people think of “homesteading”.