Wildcrafting

Free Eats! Combating the Rising Cost of Food

I try really hard to keep within our food budget. I also try really hard to serve my family food…

1 year ago

Cooking and Fermenting with Juniper Berries

I haven’t met a homesteader who doesn’t enjoy good food but even the best of us can get into a…

1 year ago

Growing Persimmons From Seed: An Unusual Fruit For Your Homestead

Persimmons are a delicious and unusual fruit to grow on your homestead. Persimmons like a warm climate but other than…

2 years ago

The Humble Hackberry Tree

Hackberry trees are noxious weeds.  At least that’s what I was taught growing up.  My parents would grumble and mutter…

2 years ago

Foraging Puffball Mushrooms

It was a cool and gloomy morning in the mid-October woods. But despite the lack of sunshine, the timber had…

2 years ago

Weed ‘Em and Eat: 7 Common Edible Lawn Plants for Early Spring

The snow is melting. The birds are chirping. The promise of a new spring is in the air, but there…

2 years ago

How to Make Herbal Tinctures

Learn how to make herbal tinctures and liquid medicinals from herbs, berries, and roots. Medicine making is both an art…

2 years ago

Foraging the Forest for Spring Edibles

It’s early spring. The bone-chilling winds of winter have finally given way to that sweet-smelling southern breeze. Songbirds have returned…

2 years ago

Weird Things to Grow and Market on the Homestead

It’s a fact that, as a species, we bore easily.  Curious beings are we, always looking for the innovative and…

2 years ago

The Profitable Homestead: How to Take Your Homestead from Hobby to Profit

It is exciting to consider the possibilities of taking your successful hobby farm to the next level, but there are…

2 years ago

New-fangled Neolithic: Embrace Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer

"The Neolithic Revolution, Neolithic Demographic Transition, or Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle…

3 years ago

Bramble Blood

There was a time in my life when from spring to September, and sometimes on into November, I was busy…

3 years ago