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…
How to Grow Potatoes
Potatoes are important to the self-sufficient gardener and the gourmet gardener. Easy to grow, highly nutritious and are a great way to stretch a meal. Kids of all ages love to grow potatoes.
Must-Have Kitchen Items for the Homestead Kitchen
There’s nothing worse than trying to trying to make something and struggling to find it in a kitchen filled with gadgets, or to buy a bunch of items and never using them.
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.
Composting 101 For Beginners
Composting is a great gardening tool for the beginner gardener. Using household waste that would otherwise end up in a landfill, you can replenish the nutrients in your soil for an ever-growing, happy garden!
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”.
crafting a self-sufficient life
