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Add Residential Solar Power Tо Yоur Homestead

December 27, 2011 0 Comments

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
Category: Solar Power, Stretching the Homestead Budget
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Loving the Farmers Market

December 22, 2011 2 Comments

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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Testing heirloom seeds

August 22, 2011 0 Comments

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
Category: Growing Vegetables, Heirlooms, Non-GMO and Seed Saving/Storing, Herbs and Herb Gardens, Homestead Gardening, Stretching the Homestead Budget
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Homesteading Goes Solar

April 11, 2011 10 Comments

This past Saturday on Your Preparation Station Donna Miller had the honor of conducting a two hour interview with LaMar Alexander. For anyone interested in going ‘off grid’, simplifying your life and getting out of the day to day rat race of paying huge bills…this is a must-listen  interview! You can listen by going to [...] Read more
Category: Attitudes and Mind Sets, Mini-Farms, Hobby Farms and Farmettes, Stretching the Homestead Budget
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Tuesday’s Tip: Adding income to the homestead budget.

July 6, 2010 3 Comments

Whether the economy is good or bad, the fact that the homesteader has a wide array of options has never changed. Here are some ideas for adding some income to the homestead budget: which offers Chemical Free and Organic Grains, Grain Mills, Bread Machines,Grain buckets, Bosch Mixers, the NutriMill, instructional tutorials, recipes and more. Read more
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Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading: Baby Steps are still Steps

March 9, 2010 0 Comments

  want to watch the rite movie which offers Organic and Chemical-free Whole Grains, Bosch Mixers, the NutriMill, instructional tutorials, recipes and more. Listen to her Radio Show – Live or Archived at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/millersgrainhouse Related Reading: Read more
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Tuesday’s Tips to Homesteading: Reuse ‘trash’

July 21, 2009 1 Comment

One tip to homesteading is not so much being a ‘pack-rat’ (although I am guilty of that with glass jars), but looking at ways to reuse something that might otherwise be thrown away. Today I want to share a pictorial tutorial of just what I’m talking about when it comes to saving ‘trash’ and making [...] Read more
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Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading: Budget Friendly Home Decor

June 16, 2009 0 Comments

Budget home decor can be an exercise in creativity for anyone on a homestead. Usually we are on limited budgets and have limited  places to shop. So this Tuesday’s Tip is how to find home decor on a budget. Related Reading: Read more
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Homesteading Tips – Visual Aid

April 14, 2009 0 Comments

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 [...] Read more
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