Skills

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

Skills That Pay the Bills: Self-employment for Homesteaders

You finally did it!  You managed to get away from the madness of urban life and build your own homestead.…

1 year 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

Friend, Anybody Can Weld

Some of my earliest memories were of gluing paper together to make something in kindergarten. My materials then were pieces…

2 years ago

Quilting: Recycling Made Beautiful

We didn’t invent recycling.  Our ancestors did it by necessity.  On the original homesteads across North America people re-jigged hard…

2 years ago

Razor’s Edge Extreme Knife Sharpening

Learn How to Sharpen Knives at Home - Basic Knife Sharpening It only took me about 40 years to learn…

2 years ago

To Sew or Not to Sew

When people think about all the many different tasks that are done on the homestead, sewing may or may not…

3 years ago

Writing Right for Money: Get Your Home Business Off the Ground and Get Out of the Grind

  “Two Decembers ago I was sitting on the porch enjoying the smell of wood smoke rising from our little…

5 years ago