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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …