Tag: Homesteading

The Complete Sissy-boy’s Guide to Pickup Trucks

The illustration above is from a 1949 Studebaker advertisement... that Never Never…

Neil Shelton Neil Shelton

The Day the Fires Came Through

I found myself fitting in well to my new way of life:…

Colleen Armstrong Colleen Armstrong

Learn to Save Money with Old-Fashioned Methods: Money-saving Advice from the Past

Self-sufficiency and sustainability are buzzwords—not only used in the close-knit homesteading community,…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

Backyard Bird Feeding on the Homestead

It was a cold morning and I had just come in from…

Kevin Wright Kevin Wright

Mortgage Free! Radical Strategies for Home Ownership By Rob Roy

If you are embarking on your homesteading experience and faced with building…

Sheri Dixon Sheri Dixon

An Early History of Rock: Precious Asset, Homesteader Headache, or The Giver of All Life?

Serene prairie or green cover or a homesteader's worst nightmare? Is there…

Karen Hanson Karen Hanson

Small-Scale Mushroom Farming

Homesteaders, whether the 100-acre or backyard type, are always on the lookout…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

The Pawpaw: America’s Secret Native Fruit

Ozark banana. Quaker delight. Asimoya. Hillbilly mango. This relatively obscure fruit goes by…

Allyson Ernst Allyson Ernst

Soup’s On!

Soup.  Ahhh, warming, comforting, nourishing, left-over using soup.  Not a week goes…

Laurie Holcomb Laurie Holcomb

Beginning and Ending with Seeds: Starting, Growing, and Saving Seeds

A garden offers some truly great benefits to those who undertake the…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

My Homestead Income: Selling Goat’s Milk Soap for Profit

Over the last ten years or so, and around my various “off…

Kristen Embry Kristen Embry

Portable Persuasion: Using Levers on the Homestead

It’s certainly no secret that farm work frequently requires some heavy lifting,…

Neil Shelton Neil Shelton