Growing a Butterfly Garden: Host Plants to Attract Butterflies
Whether you just want to have lovely, colorful things flitting around in…
Raising Country Kids on the Homestead
If you raised your kids in the country would you eat more…
Hair-raising Homestead Haircuts
I'd like you to meet my son. He's six years old, cute…
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…
The Trials and Triumphs of a Composting Toilet
When building a homestead from scratch, almost anything goes. This is especially…
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…
Becoming a Certified Wildlife Habitat
There's never a bad time to think about conservation and helping out…
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…
Starting a Micro-Creamery on the Homestead
Operating a micro-creamery is an option for those looking for niche farming…
Getting Started Spinning Wool: Spinning Wool for Beginners
One of the questions that I get asked a lot is, "Why…
Homesteading in Appalachia
Rugged, self-sufficient, fiercely loyal – despite stereotypes to the contrary, the Appalachian…
The Single Girl’s Guide to Buying a Homestead
If I were to just say the word “homestead” what would you…
