A Homestead in The Late 19th Century
Do you want to know what it was like to run a Homestead in the late 19th century? Do you like to read a reality novel to learn something from …
Enjoy Working on Your Homestead Again
Don’t you enjoy working on your Homestead anymore, because it is so overwhelming? Does it make you wonder whether other homesteaders have the same trouble and why on earth somebody …
How Not to Struggle On a Homestead with Too Much Work
For four weeks on a row we were working our heads off. Trying to harvest all our fruit, make cheese, getting the fruit processed, cleaning the house, laundry, dishes it …
Float Gardening in British Columbia
A guest post written by Margy Lutz. Margy describes her life on a float Cabin Home on Powell Lake in Coastal British Colombia. She has a very special float garden. …
5 reasons why we started our homestead
These are our 5 reasons why we started our homestead. There we go: The first reason: Space around us In Holland we had a two store house in a row …
Don’t waste food, for a more sustainable household.
Did you know that one third of all the food that is harvested on the planet is thrown away? One third of all the effort that was put into growing …
Want to know how to stop wasting food?
I found two interesting cookbooks that each have an interesting but different approach to solve the problem of wasting food in your kitchen. While Victoria Glass gives you lots of …
Where to start your vegetable garden, some things to consider.
The first step dealing with when you want to start a vegetable garden is where to start your vegetable garden. Picking the right spot requires a bit of time. In …
5 Phases in building a Homestead
As we were building a Homestead here, down south in Portugal, I discovered that this process runs in phases. Since we are on a mountain ridge where many people are …
How to Analysing the soil from your vegetable garden.
In this blog we will look into how you can find out what type of soil you have and what pH and nutritional value your garden soil has. We will …