Lifestyle

Hair-raising Homestead Haircuts

I'd like you to meet my son.  He's six years old, cute as a bug and smart as a whip. …

1 year ago

Attract Wildlife to Your Property

Living in the country means you have to deal with fewer people.  Country neighbors are few but often become like family.…

1 year ago

Adventures of Becoming a Backwoods Girl: Bugs, Guns, Dogs, and Fire, Oh My…

I decided when going back to college that I would major in Fish and Wildlife Biology. Now, understand that my…

1 year ago

Adam vs. the Post Pounder

As far as I can tell, the blame lies squarely with Prince William of England and his then-fiancée, Kate the…

1 year ago

The Trials and Triumphs of a Composting Toilet

When building a homestead from scratch, almost anything goes. This is especially true when your homestead is away from city…

1 year ago

Giving up the Grocery Store: Becoming Increasingly Self-Sufficient in a Practical Way

2020 was a changing point in my life that I didn’t realize I needed, or even wanted. We were not…

1 year ago

Becoming a Certified Wildlife Habitat

There's never a bad time to think about conservation and helping out wildlife. As a matter of fact, late winter,…

1 year ago

Homesteading Failures – If at First You Don’t Succeed, Don’t Worry, No One Else Does Either.

Anyone who claims to succeed without some measure of homesteading failure first is either not trying very hard, or lying…

1 year ago

10 Old-Fashioned Homesteading Skills for Self-Sufficiency

What does it mean to be self-sufficient? For some, it might mean being able to provide for their own needs…

1 year ago

Check Out These Seeds! Grow Hardy Plants and Preserve the Food Chain with a Seed Library

Grow Hardy Plants and Preserve the Food Chain with a Seed Library It occurred to me, as I was writing…

1 year ago