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Fencing is Necessary For Livestock on a Homestead

Do you have livestock on your homestead?  Do you plan on getting any livestock?  The fact is, if уоu kеер animals оf аnу sort you are gоіng tо nееd adequate fencing. In mаnу states, іn fact, fencing іѕ legally required fоr аnуоnе wіth livestock оr horses – оr аnу оthеr outdoor animals.  Some people have [...] Read more

Why is Homesteading an Important Lifestyle Choice

Homesteading is rapidly becoming a much more widespread way of life throughout the nation.  With uncertain times and economic difficulties, many families all over the planet have started working toward a homesteading lifestyle. The fact is, homesteading is a lifestyle that was created, in effect, by the U.S. government.  Homesteading goes by Read more

Preparing Your Garden For Winter

Now that weeding, watering, and pruning are done for this year, there are a few more chores to do as your gardening seasoning draws to a close. The majority of what must be done to prepare for winter is a matter of simply cleaning-up your garden area, and covering up the gardening spot. Practical steps [...] Read more

Ideas for Better Homesteading and Gardening

For our family, homesteading is very much about living a simple and frugal lifestyle while tending the land to provide for our living needs.  We work to include every member of our family in our process of growing and tending to our garden and livestock. When you’re living off the vegetables you’ve planted, your health [...] Read more

Homesteading – Keeping Poultry and Storing Produce

If you are homesteading, or looking to homestead, you are likely interested in living a more simple lifestyle.  Getting back to the basics of simple living requires a commitment to going green.  Homesteading offers you the ideal solution to your need for health and wellness on a budget.  You can transform the land around your [...] Read more

Bans On Organic Farming and Homesteading

Most Homesteaders are well-aware of growing crops organically.  The homesteading lifestyle actually supports and encourages an more-natural growing process than is typically used in commercial farming. If you have not heard of the revived organic farming trend, then you must have been living under a rock or in a cave.  The movement towards Read more

Testing heirloom seeds

A good rule is to try to use seeds for the given year’s season, but what if sometimes we don’t get all that season’s seeds planted. From time to time everyone has ‘left0ver’ seeds.  What should be done with those? There is a way to use last year’s or even the previous year’s seeds (let’s [...] Read more

Add Residential Solar Power Tо Yоur Homestead

Adding solar power to your homestead can save you a lot of money.  To some, it also means being off-grid. More and more cities аrе lооkіng аt clean energy replacements fоr thеіr power plants.  Thе hope оf entire towns bеіng powered bу residential solar power іѕ nо longer out of the question.  The idea of [...] Read more

Loving the Farmers Market

Believe it or not, there was once a time that the only way to get fresh produce was to either grow it yourself or visit a farmers market.   Even if you grow produce at your homestead, you will likely not be able to grow the variety of crops that you may want to consume.  That’s [...] Read more

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