Milk prices have certainly gotten higher in the last few years, high enough that many of us small farmers are seriously considering a dairy animal. …
It doesn’t take long for those who get involved in the homestead movement to become interested in the lost kitchen skills of our grandparents and…
Most homesteads, even those aiming for very high self-sufficiency, cannot live entirely free from finances. We all live in the modern world, even when we…
The air is crisp and our summer clothes are being changed out for sweaters and scarves. Instagram is full of pumpkin patch pictures. Autumn is…
Oxymel... what an odd word. The etymology of the word actually gives us the basic recipe for this ancient medicine. The root for oxymel is…
Homesteaders are accustomed to spending time at home and taking on projects in the kitchen. Now that everyone has been spending more time at home,…
I was a backyard market gardener long before I ever knew it. I came along it quite by accident, really. I worked at a small grocery…
If you live beyond the sidewalks (or are planning to move there) you need a homestead gig to sustain yourself; you need money—either to stay…
Drowning in milk? Have enough cheese and yogurt to last for more than a decade? It’s time to learn how to make milk soap from…
Bravo to those already on their own land, who are old hands at gardening and raising animals and bettering their lives. These are the folks…
Thirty years ago my parents loaded my little brother and me into Dad’s 1978 powder-blue Dodge pickup and headed fifteen miles north to a dairy…
Many of us got interested in homesteading as a way to escape the rat race only to discover—surprise, surprise!—you still need money on a homestead.…
