This week, I’ve decided, out of the kindness of my little heart, to share with you one of my most treasured recipes. It’s one I’ve…
One in nine people faces food insecurity in America (2018, USDA Household Food Security report ). I'm sure a lot of Homestead.org readers are baffled…
The popularity of keeping and raising chickens for eggs has undergone a dramatic resurgence since the turn of the twenty-first century. Laying hens are making…
Holy cow, homesteaders! I may have just found my new favorite cookie of all time. These Coconut Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies, aka Scotchies, are delightfully crisp…
Tammy Curry greeted me with fresh homemade bread, slathered with butter, and a glass of cool sweet tea. It was in the high nineties outside…
Living in the Ozarks my whole life, I’m used to the weather toying with my emotions. Temperatures here can yo-yo so quickly, it’ll make your…
Words like cold-blooded, venomous, slithery, and cunning come to mind. Not very many living creatures hold such a place of respect, awe, and downright fear…
The annual return of the ruby-throated hummingbird from its South-American winter home is one of the most definitive signs that warm weather is here to…
Every year, I sort of forget just how much I love strawberries. In the colder months, whenever I want them, I typically opt for the…
It's finally happened: you're moving toward living your homesteading dream. You figured out your property and set aside a spot for your garden. Now it's…
An exotic and perhaps odd-looking breed of poultry, the Guinea Fowl, is fast becoming not just the friend of the poultry farmer, but a friend…
As a relatively new homesteader, I have only recently hit the benchmark of starting to breed my own animals. This spring, our Muscovy duck flock…
