Dairy animals have a salable by-product: offspring. If you have dairy goats, then you have a salable crop each year, but what do you do…
When I arrived at Emerson College, in Forest Row, Sussex, England, in 1979, I knew this about gardening: if you buy a young plant from…
Carving out a homestead is a fantasy of many a young boy. Even now, when Saturday morning programming does not include anything like Davy Crockett…
If you’re shopping for a used tractor, if you’ve never owned a tractor before, and if you’re reading the pages of Homestead.org, then I’m going…
Every year I can nearly 200 pounds of meat. I normally can about 60 pounds of meat at a time 3 times each year. The…
One morning in February of 2021, Texans woke up to a winter wonderland and near-zero-degree temperatures. Although this happens in many parts of America every…
Several years ago, I decided that I would make bacon-wrapped jalapeño poppers for a family gathering. I thought they’d be crowd-pleasers that would also be…
“Sold!” the auctioneer shouted, and I excitedly watched with my dad as the ring attendants herded my newly-acquired dairy goat into the holding pens for…
For centuries now, owning a home or plot of land has been a linchpin in the mythology of the American Dream. It’s also a huge…
“There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember: and there is pansies. That’s for thoughts. There’s fennel for you, and columbines: there’s rue for you;…
Introduction to Cannabis Cannabis hasn’t always been a controversial substance. In fact, it wasn’t until the early twentieth century, around the era of alcohol prohibition,…
One goal of the homesteading lifestyle is to live as independently as possible, providing for oneself and one’s family. Owning a few cattle can further…