The quick answer is to grow slowly. Pick one or two things to work on each season that will fit within your budget. You don't need to grow and produce everything on your own, start small, support other farms, greenhouses, and homesteads and you will find yourself growing more and more self sufficient. While we… Continue reading Starting a Productive Garden without Spending Heaps of Money or Having Acreage
We are getting into garden planting season, and those big bags of quality compost can sure add up on the $$$ front. One cubic foot of quality compost around here can run up to $15 if you aren't buying in bulk! Just topping of your beds can cost a pretty penny. Building and maintaining your own… Continue reading A Quick and Easy Guide to Get You Started with Composting – Do’s and Don’ts of Composting – Composting Quickie – Lazy Composting
Learning to cook and bake from scratch is an essential part of the homesteading journey, and it is a huge step towards self sufficiency. It is simultaneously one of the easiest and most difficult parts as well. Developing a skill set in the kitchen will set you up for easy and stress free meal times… Continue reading Benefits of Cooking from Scratch and 5 Ideas to Teach Yourself How!
I really like to keep this blog filled with tips, tricks, and ideas to help you better your homestead, or to help you move further along in your homesteading dreams, but today I thought I would share with you the big step that our family has taken to do just that. My life has often… Continue reading More time on the homestead!
If the last three years has taught us nothing else, it has taught us that we need to take steps to rely more on ourselves and less on corporations. We need to be producers over consumers. There are some affiliate links in this article. Clicking on these links does not cost you any extra money,… Continue reading The Modern Urban Homesteading Movement Towards Self-Reliance and Self-Sufficiency
When we first set out on our homesteading journey we didn’t have much experience with the homesteading lifestyle, but we definitely had homesteading dreams. Both of us grew up in homes with moms that cooked from scratch, and did a small amount of outdoor vegetable and flower gardening, but neither of us had much experience… Continue reading 5 of the Easiest Changes you can make NOW to Start an Urban or Suburban Homestead without any Experience
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