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Homemade cleaning products and cloth cleaning rags in a wooden crate.

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

Make Your Own Cleaning Products with Common Household Items

Solar panels installed on the roof of a homestead surrounded by vibrant greenery and wildflowers on a sunny day.

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

Solar Power for Your Homestead: Reliable Energy in Any Climate

Depending on where you live, any number of these predators may pose a problem for your flock. However, there are a number of ways to protect your chickens from the creatures.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

How to Protect Your Backyard Chickens from Predators

Carrots in a burlap sack sitting out in the garden.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Rooted Success: Growing Carrots with Open-Weave Burlap

Discover how to make "Little Devil" deviled quail eggs as well as other recipes made just for these tiny eggs. The rich flavors will have you begging for more.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Little Devils & Other Quail Egg Delicacies

Two coturnix quail on the ground with a clutch of eggs.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

Raising Quail on the Ground In a Coop + Pen or In an Aviary

Bright yellow marigold flowers growing in a decorative pot.

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

Natural Insect Repellents for Your Homestead

Often you see bloggers glorifying homestead living. I mean... simple living. How hard can it be to live simply? Maybe harder than you may think.

Explore Real-Life Inspiring Homesteads

A Day of Homestead Living

A black Polish chicken out in the yard.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

How to Find Out What Breed Your New Chicken Is: Combs + Feather Patterns

Powdery mildew is one of the most common garden problems and it affects gardeners from coast to coast. Enjoy these natural powdery mildew treatments.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

A Natural Guide to Powdery Mildew Treatment

Two ladybugs perched on a green plant leaf, showcasing their vibrant red shells with black spots.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Natural Garden Pest Control: A Guide to Beneficial Bugs

I've discovered there are loads of foods that can be cooked on the grill. Think beyond the dogs and burgers. Here's some grilling recipes to get you started.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Sizzlin’ Summer Grilling Recipes

An older baby asleep in a bed of cabbage leaves.

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

Suppressing Lactation: How Cabbage Leaves Can Help

Wild harvested dandelions with the roots still intact.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Foraging Edible Plants Right Outside Your Door

A decorative SAVE SEEDS sign.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

An Encyclopedia of Seed Saving with Printable Seed Packets

A wire basket of potatoes spilling out on a wooden table.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

A Guide to Planting Potatoes in a Back to Eden Garden

The word Ebelskiver is Danish for apple slices, but the meaning is a dessert or snack similar to a pancake, but with a flakier texture and round shape.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Ebelskiver {Pancake Puff} Recipe Roundup

World Naked Gardening Day is an occasion that allows me to really bond with the family. Sometimes even the neighbors come by to join in the fun.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

World Naked Gardening Day

An herb crusted chèvre with a slice cut from it.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Homemade Chèvre: A Homesteader’s Guide to Crafting Cheese

A man shearing a sheep.

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

DIY Men’s Products: Prepping & Homesteading for the Modern Man

Succession planting is basically growing one crop after another. It's easy in warm climates, but even those of us up in Maine can do it.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Succession Planting: Growing More In the Same Space

What my chickens consume, my family consumes. That's why I prefer to try herbals, essential oils, and natural remedies before bringing out the big guns.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

Using Herbs & Essential Oils with Your Backyard Chickens

Angi refers to herself and her family as lazy homesteaders. And that is okay. Homesteading doesn't have to be all or nothing.

Explore Real-Life Inspiring Homesteads

The Lazy Homesteaders: Angi’s Story

A white pulled perched on a garden planter.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

Adding Started Pullets to Your Flock

A honeybee pollinating light purple daisies with yellow centers in a wildflower meadow.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Grow a Bee-Friendly Wildflower Meadow on Your Homestead

An honest conversation about the struggles and discouragement of learning to homestead. It's not all rainbows and sunshine people!

Explore Real-Life Inspiring Homesteads

Struggles: Because Homesteading Can Be Discouraging

Learn neat tricks to improve your garden with items found at the grocery store. Grocery gardening is an inexpensive way to transform your garden.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Grocery Gardening for Healthier Plants

Covering everything from choosing an incubator or broody, what's going on in the egg, tricks to make things run smoothly, hatch day and then caring for your new fluffy friends.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

How to Prepare to Hatch: Broody Hens, Incubators and Eggs

The homesteader, the chicken, and the Jehovah's Witness. A funny homesteading story, because you can't make this stuff up.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

The Homesteader, The Chicken & The Jehovah’s Witness

Close-up of Swiss chard leaves coated with frost in a garden.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Understanding Gardening Zones & Frost Dates for Better Planting

16+ Enchanting Mason Jar Craft Ideas You’ll Love to DIY

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

16+ Enchanting Mason Jar Craft Ideas You’ll Love to DIY

Breakfast cookies are, of course, always a big hit with kids. With applesauce and flax seed, the kiddos have no clue that what they're chowing down on is H-E-A-L-T-H-Y.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Oatmeal Raisin Breakfast Cookies

Kelli and her husband are urban homesteaders living on 1/3 of an acre in Iowa. She is the author of homesteading site, The Sustainable Couple.

Explore Real-Life Inspiring Homesteads

The Sustainable Couple: Kelli’s Homestead

A close-up of a barred rock chicken in a shaded grassy area.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

Can Chickens Catch Colds? Chicken Respiratory Health

Oven crepes are super easy to make and hard to mess up. You'll love them even more if you fill them with this delicious maple cream cheese filling. It's our family favorite.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Oven Crepes Recipes & Maple Cream Cheese Filling

A snow-covered garden in the backyard.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Winter Sowing Tips: Seed Starting by Zone + Additional Info

Pouring a glass of milk in front of a dairy goat.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

A Simple Trick for Great Tasting Goat’s Milk

A vibrant container garden featuring marigolds, lettuce, and herbs arranged on a patio with a white picket railing.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Small Space Vegetable Gardening: Tips for Growing More in Less

A striped sweater hung on a clothesline with snow in the background.

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

The Secret of Line Drying Clothes in Winter (even in Maine!)

Teri lives on 10 acres in Missouri with her family of four. She is the writer of Homestead Honey and today she is sharing her homesteading journey with us.

Explore Real-Life Inspiring Homesteads

Starting from Scratch: Teri’s Homesteading Journey

This lovely honey-rosemary brine gives a wonderful flavor to not only wild onions, but to garlic cloves, sliced shallots, green onions and other vegetables, as well.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Pickled Wild Onions in Honey-Rosemary Brine

A group of chickens roaming freely near an electric netted fence in a grassy field.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

How & Why to Properly Quarantine Chickens to Protect Your Flock