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20 Creative & Inspiring Milk Jug Crafts: Upcycling Ideas

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20 Creative & Inspiring Milk Jug Crafts: Upcycling Ideas

Flax seed crackers arranged on a wooden plate with a wooden spoon full of flax seeds.

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A Recipe for Healthy Flax Seed Crackers in the Dehydrator

Make Your Own Herbal Goat Treats with Flax & Supplements

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Make Your Own Herbal Goat Treats with Flax & Supplements

Anyone can plant pretty flowers, but it takes time and effort to maintain a garden and keep it looking beautiful day after day.

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How to Keep Your Garden Looking Great

Slicing tomatoes growing on the vine in my garden.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

10 Tips for Growing Lush, Bountiful Tomato Plants

I’ve been experimenting with natural ways to keep mosquitoes away for a few years, and I’ve found a few things that work for me.

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Ways to Keep Mosquitoes Away Naturally

A stack of homemade butter blocks.

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4 Ways to Make Homemade Butter from Raw Milk (Cow or Goat)

I really, really don’t like ants. That being said, as a lover of bees and other beneficial insects, I am always incredibly reluctant to use pesticides.

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Get Rid of Ants Naturally With These Tips

Are you getting ready to add fiber rabbits to your backyard farm? Rabbits are the perfect choice for someone who wants to start producing their own fibers.

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Raising Fiber Rabbits – What You Need to Know

Gardeners and farmers have hard-working hands that need TLC. This homemade hand cream helps moisturize and soothe rough, achy hands.

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Soothing & Healing Hand Cream for Farmers/Gardeners

A bottle of hard apple cider on a wooden table with apples around it.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Brewing Hard Apple Cider at Home

A teapot pouring hot water into three minimalist white teacups with steam rising, set on a wooden table.

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Detox Teas and Hot Drinks for a Healthier, Refreshed You

Disbudding, the procedure of burning off the horns, is unpleasant. Every time we disbudded our goat kids we would ask ourselves, Is this necessary?

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Pros and Cons of Disbudding Your Goat

A ripe banana with its peel partially open, a rustic knife, and a glass bowl containing mashed banana and honey on a wooden surface.

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6 Easy Homemade Face Masks for Glowing, Healthy Skin

Hyssop: Why You Need to Make Some Space for This Herb

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Hyssop: Why You Need to Make Some Space for This Herb

A collection of essential first aid supplies, including gauze, adhesive tape, scissors, thermometer, bandages, and medication, displayed on a rustic wooden surface."

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Essential Guide to Assembling a First Aid Kit for Your Homestead

Many people see polenta in the health food store and just keep on walking, but you don't want to miss out on this awesome side dish substitute.

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Polenta: A Gluten-Free Alternative to Grains

Solar cooking is an energy-efficient, set-and-forget method of cooking. Learn how to get started and what to expect from your solar oven.

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Cooking With Help From the Sun {Solar Cooking}

Back to Eden Container Gardening: Small-Scale Permaculture

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Back to Eden Container Gardening: Small-Scale Permaculture

Two Californian meat rabbits on a wooden table with bushes in the background.

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A Homestead Guide to Meat Rabbit Breeding Stock Selection

How does the modern homesteader manage to balance everything that needs to be done? Amazing organization. Simple living doesn't have to be hard.

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Organization for Busy Homesteaders {Printables}

Open book and cozy mug on a windowsill with a snowy background.

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15 Must-Read Homesteading Books for Every Skill Level

Plant your produce in rich, healthy soil. Go a step further and choose organic and natural amendments to enhance your soil quality and correct imbalances.

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Organic Amendments for Healthy Soil

12+ Fun Ways to Upcycle Holiday Cards After the Season

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12+ Fun Ways to Upcycle Holiday Cards After the Season

I eat applesauce not only as a snack, but I also enjoy recipes using applesauce. Homemade applesauce is delicious, but I like to give it some pizzazz with add-ons.

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Homemade Applesauce & Recipes Using Applesauce

Ducks actually have a couple of molting phases and each one looks different. The effects are most obvious in drakes. Spring, summer and fall molts.

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Your Seasonal Guide to Duck Molting

How to Make Homemade Fire Cider for Cold & Flu Season

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How to Make Homemade Fire Cider for Cold & Flu Season

Black gold. It's essential in the garden. Most choose the bovine poo, but there are many manure options to choose from, each with their own unique benefits.

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What a load of… Manure

Me holding a house bunny in my hands against my chest.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

Why You Should Consider Rabbits as Your Next Pet

A cheerful woman in denim overalls raising her finger as if making a point, with a hand holding a microphone toward her.

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You Might Be a Homesteader If… (No Need to Say It)

A closeup of a dirty stovetop.

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

Clean Your Stovetop and Oven Without Harsh Chemicals

Gardening supplies laid out on a wooden table.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

20 Gardening Hacks That Will Save You Time and Effort

This pumpkin dip turns ginger snaps into tiny little bites of pumpkin pie. It is beyond delicious and incredibly easy to make.

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Ginger Snaps & Harvest Pumpkin Dip

A cracked open coconut with a jar of coconut oil and a spoon.

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42 Real-Life Uses for Coconut Oil Beyond the Kitchen

Mason jar feeders and waterers are great, but they can be hard to hang. Here is an easy crochet holder that will keep your feeder and waterer off the ground.

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DIY Poultry Feed & Water Hanger

Like peas and carrots, chickens and gardens belong together (though not occupying the same space). Chickens want to work. Why not harness that natural instinct?

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Let Your Chickens Do Your Composting

A wooden crate filled with fresh red and green apples, ideal for winter storage.

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Winter Food Storage: Keep Produce Fresh Through the Cold Months

I'm an outdoor garden person. It's where my thumb shines the greenest. These five tips have helped me keep my houseplants happy and healthy.

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Your Guide to Healthy Houseplants

Jars of homemade jelly flipped upside down on a red cloth as part of the inversion canning method.

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Inversion Canning: Why “Old-Fashioned” Methods Aren’t Safe

A quirky quail chick looking at the camera.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

What Is My Quail Doing? Quail Behavior That Might Freak You Out

My wife and I live an off-grid homestead lifestyle in Alaska because we prefer to live closer to nature, at a different pace from most of society.

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Off-Grid in Alaska: Mark’s Story

Wooden clothespins on a cotton clothesline.

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

Clothesline Efficiency: How to Dry Your Clothes Outside Like a Pro