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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.

Real Food

Sizzlin’ Summer Grilling Recipes

An older baby asleep in a bed of cabbage leaves.

Homestead Living

Suppressing Lactation: How Cabbage Leaves Can Help

Wild harvested dandelions with the roots still intact.

Backyard Garden

Foraging Edible Plants Right Outside Your Door

A decorative SAVE SEEDS sign.

Backyard Garden

An Encyclopedia of Seed Saving with Printable Seed Packets

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

Backyard Garden

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.

Real Food

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.

Backyard Garden

World Naked Gardening Day

An herb crusted chèvre with a slice cut from it.

Real Food

Homemade Chèvre: A Homesteader’s Guide to Crafting Cheese

A man shearing a sheep.

Homestead Living

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.

Backyard Garden

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.

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.

Inspiring Homesteads

The Lazy Homesteaders: Angi’s Story

Regardless of the size of your homestead, you can create a Monarch habitat by providing food, water, cover, and a place for the caterpillars to grow.

Backyard Garden

Monarch Butterfly Gardens

A white pulled perched on a garden planter.

Homestead Animals

Adding Started Pullets to Your Flock

Native bee populations are suffering.They refer to it as Colony Collapse Disorder. You can help by planting native bee-friendly flowers.

Backyard Garden

A Meadow of Bee-Friendly Flowers

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

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.

Backyard Garden

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.

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.

Homestead Animals

The Homesteader, The Chicken & The Jehovah’s Witness

There is often some confusion about what gardening zones and frost dates are. Also, things these tools don't tell you that are important to the gardener.

Backyard Garden

What Gardening Zones & Frost Dates Tell You

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

Homestead Living

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.

Real Food

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.

Inspiring Homesteads

The Sustainable Couple: Kelli’s Homestead

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

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.

Real Food

Oven Crepes Recipes & Maple Cream Cheese Filling

A snow-covered garden in the backyard.

Backyard Garden

Winter Sowing Tips: Seed Starting by Zone + Additional Info

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

Homestead Animals

A Simple Trick for Great Tasting Goat’s Milk

Discover ways to vegetable garden in a small space. With a little creativity and ingenuity, you can provide food for your family even in the smallest of small spaces.

Backyard Garden

Small Space Vegetable Gardening

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

Homestead Living

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.

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.

Real Food

Pickled Wild Onions in Honey-Rosemary Brine

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

Homestead Animals

How & Why to Properly Quarantine Chickens to Protect Your Flock

This is a one skillet dish, so clean up is easy. Since this fried rice recipe makes use of a lot of leftovers, your refrigerator will have more room as well.

Real Food

Something From Nothing: Fried Rice

You can tap many types of trees for syrup. The list is quite long and includes all varieties of maples as well as walnuts, birches, sycamores and ironwoods.

Backyard Garden

Trees You Can Tap for Syrup

Sage growing in a shady spot in the garden.

Backyard Garden

Shaded Vegetable Gardens: Top Crops for Low Light Conditions

Hand milking a goat into a pail.

Homestead Animals

Homemade Teat Wash for Goats & Cows

Roast chicken is an easy meal that comes out of the oven sitting on top of its very own side dish. All I have to do is pour a couple glasses of milk (or wine) and dinner is ready.

Real Food

Roast Chicken with Sweet Potato, Apple & Cranberry Stuffing

A permaculture vegetable garden.

Backyard Garden

Improve Your Garden with These 8 Permaculture Herbs

The greatest thing about vermicomposting or composting with worms is that anyone is able to do it, regardless of how much space they have.

Backyard Garden

Why You Should Be Composting with Worms {Vermicomposting}

Making your yard eco-friendly is a process, not an all-or-nothing imperative. Every improvement brings a benefit to the environment.

Backyard Garden

Creating an Eco-Friendly Yard & Garden {Part 2}

The human footprint on planet Earth continues to grow, but you can make a difference in your very own backyard. Create an eco-friendly yard and garden.

Backyard Garden

Creating an Eco-Friendly Yard & Garden {Part 1}

Move a portion of your garden south. How? you might ask. It is simple, with a greenhouse! You just need to find your correct greenhouse for your goals.

Backyard Garden

Move a Portion of Your Garden South