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Make Your Own Herbal Goat Treats with Flax & Supplements

Homestead Animals

Make Your Own Herbal Goat Treats with Flax & Supplements

A collection of garden tools, terracotta pots, and potted flowering plants arranged against an old stone wall in a home garden.

Backyard Gardening

How to Keep Your Garden Looking Good Without Extra Work

Slicing tomatoes growing on the vine in my garden.

Backyard Gardening

10 Tips for Growing Lush, Bountiful Tomato Plants

Terracotta flower pot with hand-painted mosquito symbol showing a natural approach to pest control.

Simple Living Skills

How to Keep Mosquito Away Naturally (And Enjoy Being Outside)

A stack of homemade butter blocks.

Homestead Animals

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

Diatomaceous earth in a red spoon with ants approaching it on a rustic blue table.

Simple Living Skills

How to Use Diatomaceous Earth for Ants (Safely and Effectively)

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.

Homestead Animals

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.

Simple Living Skills

Soothing & Healing Hand Cream for Farmers/Gardeners

A glass bottle of homemade hard apple cider on a wooden table, surrounded by red apples and apple slices.

In the Kitchen

Hard Apple Cider Recipe: Easy Guide to Brew at Home

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

In the Kitchen

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?

Homestead Animals

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.

Simple Living Skills

6 Easy Homemade Face Masks for Glowing, Healthy Skin

Why You Should Make Space for Hyssop in Your Garden

Backyard Gardening

Why You Should Make Space for Hyssop in Your Garden

Assorted first aid items including gauze rolls, a digital thermometer, pills, adhesive bandages, and scissors arranged on a weathered wooden surface.

Simple Living Skills

Homestead First Aid Kit: What Every Self-Sufficient Home Needs

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.

In the Kitchen

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.

In the Kitchen

Cooking With Help From the Sun {Solar Cooking}

Back to Eden Container Gardening: Small-Scale Permaculture

Backyard Gardening

Back to Eden Container Gardening: Small-Scale Permaculture

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

Homestead Animals

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.

Simple Living Skills

Organization for Busy Homesteaders {Printables}

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

Homestead Inspiration

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.

Backyard Gardening

Organic Amendments for Healthy Soil

12+ Fun Ways to Upcycle Holiday Cards After the Season

Simple Living Skills

12+ Fun Ways to Upcycle Holiday Cards After the Season

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.

Homestead Animals

Your Seasonal Guide to Duck Molting

How to Make Homemade Fire Cider for Cold & Flu Season

In the Kitchen · Simple Living Skills

How to Make Homemade Fire Cider for Cold & Flu Season

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

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.

Homestead Inspiration

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

A closeup of a dirty stovetop.

Simple Living Skills

Clean Your Stovetop and Oven Without Harsh Chemicals

Gardening supplies laid out on a wooden table.

Backyard Gardening

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.

In the Kitchen

Ginger Snaps & Harvest Pumpkin Dip

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

Simple Living Skills

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.

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?

Homestead Animals

Let Your Chickens Do Your Composting

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

Backyard Gardening

Winter Food Storage: Keep Produce Fresh Through the Cold Months

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

In the Kitchen

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

A curious Coturnix quail chick stands among blooming purple thyme flowers, facing the camera with an alert expression.

Homestead Animals

Quail Behavior Explained: Funny, Odd & Totally Normal

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.

Homestead Inspiration

Off-Grid in Alaska: Mark’s Story

Wooden clothespins on a cotton clothesline.

Simple Living Skills

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

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

Simple Living Skills

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 Living Skills

Solar Power for Your Homestead: Reliable Energy in Any Climate

Carrots in a burlap sack sitting out in the garden.

Backyard Gardening

Rooted Success: Growing Carrots with Open-Weave Burlap

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

Homestead Animals

Raising Quail on the Ground: Coops, Pens, and Aviaries Explained

Bright yellow marigold flowers growing in a decorative pot.

Simple Living Skills

Natural Insect Repellents for Your Homestead