Tips to Homesteading

Archive for April, 2009

Each Monday (in addition now to Tuesday’s Tips) I hope to add my musings. My mind runs wild with so many ideas and thoughts that – it seemed that on Monday, it would be a good time to empty some of those out of my head for others to benefit from!

Many a seasoned and new homesteader find organic herbs to be of great value!

This is my favorite place to find organic herbs to use in cooking, tinctures, soaps, and aromatherapy.

Mountain Rose Herbs

Hope you enJOY!

(PS: Sorry this went to drafts so it’s up on TUESDAY) (o:

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If you’ve not been homesteading long or are just beginning, it may be tempting to go to your local farmer’s market and buy some of those nice, pest-resistant, hybrid plants that are supposedly easier to grow. After all, they are ‘made’ to be more user friendly right? Well, that depends.

They are often genetically modified plants (GMO) that have had artificial genes grafted into their make up to make them resist draught or blight or bugs. That’s why some tomatoes don’t really taste like a tomato.  Not only that, but by being hybrids, they are sterile or infertile for next year’s seeds. The plant you grow this year will not produce seeds for next year’s garden. You get to go spend money again on another hybrid seed.

Heirloom seeds will give you seeds to use each year from the crops they grow. Eat them this year, dry and save some for next year. Repeat. Now that’s money in the bank!

Take a look at this place that offers heirloom seeds with fast, free shipping:

Grow a Patriot Garden

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If you are making the move from suburbia/city to rural living, there can be quite an exciting learning curve. Even if you aren’t making the ‘move’ physically, you may be moving to a more frugal, do-it-yourself type way of life no matter where you live.

If that is the case, please check out this youtube channel for some visual aides on saving money and the journey to homesteading.  http://www.youtube.com/user/thewheatguy

Sometimes seeing helps the learning process.

As the weather warms – it is our hope to add some of the gardening and outdoor work of building this little slice of earth into our working homestead. We may change channels for that, but for now, we’re on the one above. Hope you join us in our homesteading journey!

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