Skills | Tips to Homesteading

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

Category: Stretching the Homestead Budget

Tags: budget, farmers market, frut, homestead, honey, income, skills, vegetables

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

Tags: acreage, acres, bunny, chickens, crops, dirt, fruit trees, garden, gardening, goats, grapevines, harvest, homestead, homestead garden, hunter, land, livestock, nut trees, rabbit, sheep, skills, woods

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

Tags: families, home, home making, homestead, homesteading, mentor, skills, suburbia