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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: Sometimes ‘going with your gut’ is good.

May 5, 2009 0 Comments

This Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading is: Sometimes ‘going with your gut’ is good. What exactly does it mean to ‘go with your gut’? Well, it’s like this, the almanac has said we should have our peas in the ground weeks ago. I’ve been anguished over this date on the calendar for quite some time. My [...] Read more
Category: Mini-Farms, Hobby Farms and Farmettes
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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
Category: Stretching the Homestead Budget
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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
Category: Urban Homesteading
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Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading: Rewards worth the work are not easy

March 24, 2009 1 Comment

It's no secret to those who have been living the homesteading life for a while; this is not "Easy Street" by any stretch of the imagination. If you are new to homesteading, dreaming of homesteading or just wondering what on earth this lifestyle is, let me be honest...it is not a life of luxury, ease or glamour! Read more
Category: Attitudes and Mind Sets
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A picture’s worth a thousand words …

January 20, 2009 0 Comments

  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
Category: Stretching the Homestead Budget
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Winter Homestead ‘To Do’ ideas

January 5, 2009 10 Comments

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
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One BIG New Year’s Goal for the Homestead: ORGANIZE

December 31, 2008 0 Comments

Whether you live in a an urban apartment or on a ranch on a huge multi-acre spread, organizing is one of the top resolutions for many people this New Year.  It usually comes in third on the list, right behind health related and financial related issues. I believe that if this were the only goal for the New Year, [...] Read more
Category: Stretching the Homestead Budget
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Stop tossing tomatoes!

October 14, 2008 0 Comments

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