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Let There Be Light: Building a Sunroom Using Recycled Materials

By Mariann Foster
In the summer of 2016, a neighbor lady invited me and my daughter over to see the greenhouse that she had built with her husband. …
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You Can Afford Your Homestead Dream..You May Not Recognize it at First.

By Tony Colella
Do you dream of one day owning a homestead of your own, a place where you can raise animals and gardens to provide good, wholesome…
heating with a woodstove Alternative Energy

The Homestead Woodstove

By Tony Colella
One of my favorite homestead assets is our woodstove.  There is nothing quite like heating with a woodstove on a cold winter’s night.  Knowing that…
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Salvage is the Soul of Our Homestead

By Carrie Sacco
A girl about the age of twelve, sporting a French beret, stands to the side with her face tilted, looking over the fields as I…
Portable Building Cabin Construction

A Better Cabin, Quicker and Cheaper – Part 1

By Doug Smith
Our Portable Building Cabin Adventure Begins Dick Proenneke is a name familiar to many who have made the decision to live the homesteading lifestyle.  For…
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Friend, Anybody Can Weld

By Doug Smith
Some of my earliest memories were of gluing paper together to make something in kindergarten. My materials then were pieces of construction paper cut with…
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Homesteading with Pythagoras: Recycled Chicken Coop to Homestead Building

By D. Glenn Miller
When a neighbor offered us an old outbuilding—one that was in fairly good repair but that he’d no longer wanted—Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician and philosopher,…
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Tiny Houses, Big Potential

By Nicole Hixon
What is your ideal house-size? Is it 1,000 square-feet? 2,000 square feet or more? Right now across the country, many Americans are purposely moving into…
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Too Close for Comfort: One Woman’s Misadventures in Pasture Creation

By Sue Dick
I reflected it was an odd way to spend a morning. Crammed in a bulldozer cab, my bottom perched on a side molding of the…
Secrets to Turning a Rent-to-Own Storage Building into a House Construction

Secrets to Turning a Rent-to-Own Storage Building into a House, Part Two

By Anthony Okrongly
Repeat after me, “Blocking, blocking, blocking!” If there is one thing on a rent-to-own storage building to cabin conversion that will break your heart if…
Home-Winterization Construction

Home Winterization Anyone Can Tackle

By Doug Smith
There's something romantic or heartwarming about seeing a home in a clearing in the woods or down a lane with a glow of lamps or…
Secrets to Turning a Rent-to-Own Storage Building into a House Construction

Secrets to Turning a Rent-to-Own Storage Building into a House, Part One

By Anthony Okrongly
In ten years on my homestead, I have built many buildings from scratch, including living spaces, some better than others. This spring, I decided to…

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