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

Explore Real-Life Inspiring Homesteads

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

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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.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Ginger Snaps & Harvest Pumpkin Dip

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

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

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.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

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?

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

Let Your Chickens Do Your Composting

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

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

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.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Your Guide to Healthy Houseplants

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

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

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

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.

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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

Close-up of powdery mildew on large gourd leaves, showing a white, powdery fungal growth.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Baking Soda & Natural Treatments for Powdery Mildew

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

Bold text reading 'Save Seeds & Printable Seed Packets' with vibrant images of vegetables, herbs, and flowers inside the letters.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

The Ultimate Seed Saving Guide and 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.

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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!

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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