Self-sufficiency

Staple Crops for the Homestead Seeking Self-Sufficiency

A huge proportion of the earth’s people groups depend on a starchy staple crop—one dependable source of filling nutrition that…

12 months 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

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

Grub in a Tub: Container Gardening on the Homestead

How to Fight the High Cost of Groceries This Summer, Starting Right Now with Container Gardening. Well, I guess it’s…

1 year ago

12 Months of Fresh Produce: How to Grow Food All Year

A homestead is not complete without a kitchen garden and a homestead business is not complete without a market garden. …

1 year ago

6 Ways to Make Your Homestead More Sustainable

Creating sustainable homesteads has become more and more important over recent years. People are more interested than ever in reducing…

2 years ago

Making Your Homestead Pay… You First!

Growing Your Homestead Without Going Into Debt It was June, almost ten bee seasons ago, and Steve and a friend…

2 years ago

Ten Humble Country Callings: Homestead Gigs

If you live beyond the sidewalks (or are planning to move there) you need a homestead gig to sustain yourself;…

2 years ago

Income Opportunities for Poultry Farmers

Chickens scratching around the yard is a classic homestead picture.  Chickens are terrific animals for any sustainable homestead.  They convert scraps and…

2 years ago

Five Weeks from Seed to Table

Growing vegetables from seed is probably one of the greatest pleasures of gardening. You can see the whole process from…

2 years ago

My Homestead Income: Selling Goat’s Milk Soap for Profit

Over the last ten years or so, and around my various “off the farm” work schedules, I have learned a…

3 years ago

Selling What You Make Online

  It is indeed a strange paradox that the internet enables me to pursue the “simple life”.   Fresh out of…

5 years ago