Solar Solutions for Apartment Homesteaders

Alternative energy sources are increasingly popular, especially with homesteaders.  Whether you are concerned about the environment and want to reduce your carbon footprint or are concerned with being tied to a strained and unreliable power grid, solar power may be the solution you are looking for.  And while it would be nice to attach some solar panels to the roof…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

Create a Future-Proof Homestead: Planning for Climate and Cultural Changes

Tooting My Own Horn (Briefly). At the beginning of 2020, I predicted (and gave concrete plans on how to mitigate) the current gas and energy price rise.  In early March of 2020, I predicted that about one million Americans would die from COVID-19 (and gave concrete plans on what to do).  I also predicted that cities would be shut down…

Anthony Okrongly Anthony Okrongly

From Beets to Beef: A Vegetarian’s Journey to Raising Beef Cattle

At the young and impressionable age of twenty, I read the book Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer from cover to cover.  The book provides a detailed discussion and account of what it means to eat meat in the age of industrialized agriculture, but at the time, the main points that I took from it were graphic descriptions of the…

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Solar Solutions for Apartment Homesteaders

Alternative energy sources are increasingly popular, especially with homesteaders.  Whether you are…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

Creamy Potato Soup

Ahh, do you all feel that?  Autumn has arrived, and—here in the…

Jessica Shelton Jessica Shelton

The Adze-Mattock

The adze is among the very oldest of stone-age tools.  It was…

Neil Shelton Neil Shelton

Processing Poultry: City Folk Learn to Dispatch and Dress Chickens

A Portlander guy walks into a butcher shop, tells the man behind…

David Von Kroug David Von Kroug

Grant Writing for Homesteaders: Go Get That Money!

We all have dreams for our farms, but often the dream is…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

While You’re Waiting: How to Start Homesteading Today

The homesteading life is one that is admired by most and desired…

Sabrina Hair Sabrina Hair

Tamale Pie

I'm just going to start this out by saying that I LOVE…

Jessica Shelton Jessica Shelton

Caramel Apple Cobbler

You'd never know it with temps like those here in the Ozarks…

Jessica Shelton Jessica Shelton

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Urban Foraging

When I had to pack up my rural homestead and move it…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

Stop! Don’t Feed That Pigweed to the Pigs!

I had to go to Africa to discover pigweed.  But, once smitten,…

Barbara Bamberger-Scott Barbara Bamberger-Scott

Making Cheese at Home is Fun! Making Fromage Blanc

As I ponder my kitchen, which is a total wreck, I see…

Allena Jackson Allena Jackson