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Composting with worms

Why Not Add A Dairy Goat To Your Homestead?

Catching And Cooking Crayfish

Pacific Northwest Megaquake — It May Be Just Around The Corner

In the garden

Fruits For The Far North

By Johanna Melchiore Eighteen years ago when we moved from our Maine homestead to Canada where we established a new homestead in the wilderness of northern...

Grow Your Own Salad Greens

Amaranth: The Herb That Keeps On Giving

Why Gardening Is Such Good Exercise, Especially For Women

Gardening After Sixty

In the workshop

Make Homestead Milk Soap

The $12 workbench

Build A Goat-Proof Dog Feeding Area

Try Harvesting Smaller Diameter Firewood With A Bow Saw And Sawbuck

In the self-reliant home

How We Homeschool

Practical Prepping

I decided for my own family that I wanted to take a more practical approach to preparing. I don’t call it prepping, I prefer to look at it as living a sustainable, yet useful life.

Basic Long-Term Food Storage

By James Kash Long-term food storage has played a pivotal role in humanity’s survival. For thousands of years, foods have been preserved in some form...