Companion Planting and Crop Rotation in Warm Dry Climates
You sat down to plan your vegetable garden. You had your companion planting chart, your rotation circle, your bed layout — and somewhere around bed three, it stopped making sense. …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …