Homesteading is both a lifestyle and an attitude. It revolves around the idea of self-sufficiency and producing things yourself rather than purchasing them from stores and providers who mass produce or mass sourced products and consumer goods. Photo Source When you homestead, you look at something and figure out how you can create it yourself. Rather than buying a loaf ...
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Give Your Homestead Some Life And Personality
Whether you’ve just moved into a new house or you’re thinking of improving your current one, it can be hard to spruce up a big homestead. The key is to make sure it reflects the taste of you and your family members. It needs to feel like a comfortable and inviting space. Here’s how to give your homestead some life and personality. PImage by shadowfirearts on Pixabay Do ...
Is Homesteading the Right Choice for You?
Image Credit Homesteading is something that’s grown in massive popularity over recent years, and understandably so - it’s certainly one of the more natural ways for humans to live, and there’s always going to be something appealing about the ability to live off the grid surrounded by beautiful nature, and completely self sufficient when it comes to things like growing your ...
3 Things You Want to Know About Homestead Management
Homesteaders are some of the hardest working people you could ever know. Learning all the skills it takes to live as much off the land as we can takes a ton of hard work and dedication. There's no real way to separate homestead management from this lifestyle. The success of your homestead will stand or fall without homestead management. It is the most important component ...
How to Take Your Homestead from Sucky to Lucky
So your homestead sucks and you know it. Piles of this and that are all over the property. Your garden is doing ok, but not at all as well as you had thought it would. You don't think you'll be able to live off the canned and dehydrated foods in an SHTF situation for sure. Heck, you don't even want to eat it today. I get you. Boy, do I get you. And I've got just the ...
Avoid This One Big Modern Homesteading Mistake in 2019
Modern homesteaders kind of have it easy. Running water, central air and heat, grocery stores to shop at where plenty of businesses provide all we need make our lives easier and more full. We quite honestly have no need of canning food, making our own clothing, gardening, or even homesteading. We are a truly blessed people having everything available to us, but all this ...
Homestead Management: Why You Need to Stop Winging It
Homesteading is a topic that we all love to talk about, don't we? Raising livestock, gardening, self-reliance, herbal medicine, food preservation...it's all fantastic conversation fodder. But when it comes to homestead management, we tend to just wing it. Many of us don't start with a plan, and that leads to all kinds of issues. In this post, I'll show you exactly where to ...
Goal Setting: Working on Self-Reliance Skills
As we often do with the new year looming, there are goals to be set and met. Do you feel it? For some, like myself, the new year brings the feeling of "freshness" and "new challenge". This year, I feel challenged to make and reach some homestead self-reliance goals for 2019, and I thought I'd share those with you! If you are anything like me, you probably have a zillion ...