Homestead Projects

  • How to Make an Herb Drying Rack (that won’t break the bank!)
    Preserving your harvest is one of the most important parts of the work. Your preservation technique can truly make or break your harvest. Whether drying vegetables, flowers, or wildcrafted goodies, having a good herb drying rack is essential. Thankfully there are many different methods to create your herb and flower drying rack, and they won’t break the bank!
  • 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.
  • How We’re Making a 1-acre Food Forest (Year 1)
    Crafting a forest filled with edibles goodies that will not only sustain our family for generations to come, but also many others. Learn what started it, and how you can use these methods to make your own food forest – even in a city lot!
  • 23+ Unique and Inexpensive Handmade Gifts From The Homestead
    These inexpensive, unique ideas straight from your homestead are great for those last minute gift ideas or to plan ahead and make the cutest themed gifts.
  • 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.
  • 3 Immune Boosting Berries to Plant in Your Garden This Year
    Building a food forest on our 5 acre property has become a dream of mind. Join me as I learn, make mistakes, and work my way to creating a sustainable food source for my family, for generations.
  • How To Build a Garden Planter in 10 Minutes
    Want an easy way to improve your garden in less than 10 minutes? This garden planter is the gateway for you to build just about anything!
  • The Top 5 Household Toxins to Get Rid of NOW
    Committed to getting rid of toxins but don’t know where to start? Me too! I remember that feeling all too well. I’m happy to say it wasn’t that painful or as confusing as it first felt to be. Here’s a cheatsheet crash course for ya!
  • Produce Bags: A Simple DIY Tutorial
    Have you ever felt like you can’t possibly make much a difference in the world when it comes to environmental issues? With this DIY produce bag tutorial, you can! Your friends are going to be all over your for them and you can even turn it into a little extra cash if you wanted to.
  • 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.