Homesteading Is More Than Growing Food: Building a Self-Sufficient Lifestyle
When people think of homesteading, they often picture a big vegetable garden, jars of preserves, and maybe a few backyard chickens. While food production is part of it, real homesteading…
Take 2: How to recognise good soil
Soil is the basis for gardening. When the soil in your vegetable garden is healthy you will have good results in your garden. Healthy soil What is healthy soil like?…
Start your vegetable garden in only three weeks time.
What could you do to become more self sustainable? Well, start your own vegetable garden. These are not easy times, things are not as they used to be and nobody…
What Feeding Goats Costs
Do you want to buy goats for your homestead or small scale farm? Do you wonder if it would be worth doing so and what it would cost you to…
What Not to Feed Goats to Avoid Accidents
Where does the myth that goats can eat anything come from? And does that also mean that you can feed goats anything? Fact is that goats are not only picky,…
Feeding Goats, Some Things You Didn’t Know.
Can you give me the name of a country were there are no goats? No? Why not? Because they are very flexible in their diet. Does that mean goats eat…
How to Start a Homestead
Do you want to know how to prepare for homesteading? Are you up for a major change in your life? To break free and realise your dream? Is your dream…
The Best Homestead Location, what you need to know.
What is the best location for a homestead? What should we consider? How do we know if this place is good for our dreamed Homestead? Buying a piece of land…
6 Things to Avoid When Picking Your Homestead Location
When you are looking for the right place for your Homestead there is a lot to think about. In this series of blogs we will cover the major things. Apart…
Finding A Homestead Location with Good and Sufficient Fresh Water
Having good quality fresh water is essential for your Homestead. Water is essential to life. You will not be able to survive on a location without water. Water is needed…
The Best Homestead Location and the Position of the Sun
The sun is important for a lot of things. Your vegetable garden will not thrive without enough direct sunlight. The use of solar panels is only worth the effort when…
Starting a Homestead In a Remote Area.
Once you have decided to start your own Homestead one of the questions will be: where are we going to start our Homestead? Are you thinking of starting a Homestead…
Cooking Cheese and Spinach Quiche with Fresh Farm Ingredients.
This blog is written by Anna Tonk. She volunteered at Terra do Milho for two month. What happens in the kitchen during winter on a Homestead? Living on a Homestead…
4 Easy to Learn Homesteading Kitchen Skills for Starters
When you want to start your own Homestead (or just started one) you can feel overwhelmed with all the things you need to learn. This is how we tackled the…
The Advantages of Dehydrating Fruit and Vegetables
Don’t you know what to do with an overload of fruit and vegetables in summer and fall? Do you only have little time for preserving your dear harvest? Is your…
Why using a Steam Juicer is a good idea.
Do you have a lot of soft fruit at once in your Orchard? Do you find it hard to process it all at the same time? In that case using…
What You Need to Know About Canning
Do you want to learn easy Homesteading skills? Don’t you have a Homestead yet? No problem. You don’t need to wait, you can start right now. This is what you…
Learning Easy Homesteading Skills: Seasonal Cooking
Do you want to start your own Homestead one day? Is that day still some years ahead? Here is something you can start doing right now. Why it is Important…
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…
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…
