Archive | January, 2009

A picture’s worth a thousand words …

  When learning to homestead, or even dreaming about homesteading, I would have loved to have someone help me SEE things that I could do. Alas, growing up in suburbia many skills needed by a homesteader (or a home maker for that matter) were not passed down to me. They were perceived as not needed. [...] Read more

Winter Homestead ‘To Do’ ideas

Winter can seem like ‘down time’ on the homestead, but it certainly is not true in all homesteads. If you have livestock of any form, you know they need just as much care, if not more, in the winter. If you have wood heat, well then you are hauling and chopping and cleaning ashes. But [...] Read more
Category: Winterizing