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Tips to Putting up the Garden Harvest…

June 9, 2010 5 Comments

If you’re new to homesteading or even a seasoned veteran – one topic that often has many many tips to it is how to preserve your harvest once the garden starts putting out food! Below are a few options: Canning - This is one of the most widely used forms of preserving and putting up [...] Read more
Category: Mini-Farms, Hobby Farms and Farmettes
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Tuesday’s Tip: Don’t try to go it alone.

June 1, 2010 2 Comments

Even if you are alone on the homestead, don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Today’s tip is vital not only to the success of your homestead, but your mental health as well!   It can be relatives, friends or neighbors, an occasional visitor or a planned weekly chore sharing – no matter [...] Read more
Category: Attitudes and Mind Sets
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Don’t lose the dream. Start Urban Homesteading!

February 23, 2010 3 Comments

So the economy has turned topsy-turvy and you’re wallet has turned inside out. The dream of having that large spread of land and the acres of fertile soil to grow and homestead on seems farther out of reach than ever. Don’t give up on the dream, learn some much needed skills (and scratch that homesteading [...] Read more
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Winterizing Wednesday – Foundation, Cover and Comfort

January 6, 2010 2 Comments

  As winter marches on and on and temperatures drop deep this season, we hope to keep the tips coming to keep your homestead humming!     Around the Home – Check Foundations: Rake away all debris and edible vegetation from the foundation of your home. Seal up entry points to keep small animals from [...] Read more
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More winterizing plans for the homestead

November 30, 2009 2 Comments

More tips to winterize around your homestead… Inside the home: Specific to your Furnace… Call an HVAC professional to inspect your furnace and clean ducts. Stock up on furnace filters and change them monthly. Consider switching out your thermostat for a programmable thermostat. Remove all flammable material from the area surrounding your Read more
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Some Winterizing Plans on the Homestead

November 9, 2009 8 Comments

  It won’t be long until many of us who live on homesteads will be facing the winter in full force. Over the next few posts, we would like to give some ‘tips’ to help you winterize in the areas of your home/house, your garden and your animals (pets & stock). If you’ve not started, [...] Read more
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Tuesday’s Tips to Homesteading: Start where you are

August 18, 2009 0 Comments

  So, you dream of living in the country, living off the land, having small livestock and a serious spread of a garden. Life will be good then, and don’t we know it! For now, you’re in the suburbs though and there’s no sign of leaving any time soon. Can anything be done to start [...] Read more
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Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading: Push through & Perseverance

June 23, 2009 3 Comments

The art of perseverance is often looked at with some type of nostalgia. History tells us stories of people during times such as the founding of the country, the Great Depression, the prisoners in camps and war zones that persevered through trial with diligence, with hope in the face of despair. These are not the [...] Read more
Category: Mini-Farms, Hobby Farms and Farmettes
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Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading: Start Smaller than your Dream

March 31, 2009 0 Comments

Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading: “Start Smaller than your Dream” is by NO MEANS a damper on your vision of homesteading! If anything, it is to keep that from happening. Once you’ve gotten the homesteading ‘bug’ it is almost impossible to get rid of it. We had a short stint in Southern California suburbia that down-right [...] Read more
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