Start Homesteading Today With These Hacks (And Little To No Money)

Start Homesteading Today With These Hacks (And Little To No Money)

You can start homesteading today without spending a lot by using these simple hacks I’ve learned over the years. Long before we bought our farm, we knew we wanted to start homesteading. Lifestyle is important to us, and we wanted the freedom homesteading brings. We started from scratch, and built our farm up by taking some…

Planting A Homestead Orchard With Dwarf Fruit Trees
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Planting A Homestead Orchard With Dwarf Fruit Trees

Planting a homestead orchard with fruit trees was a priority as soon as we bought our farm. Our homestead already had a small pecan orchard planted, and to our delight there also was a young black walnut tree.  Our first year, we harvested over 100 pounds of pecans, and we couldn’t even gather them all there…

Why Honey’s Antibacterial Properties Should Always Be In Your Chickens’ Emergency Kit
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Why Honey’s Antibacterial Properties Should Always Be In Your Chickens’ Emergency Kit

Humans have known about honey’s antibacterial properties for centuries, and it’s something I turn to on the homestead to treat wounds on our chickens. For generations, our ancestors relied on honey’s antibacterial properties to treat their chickens as well as themselves. And our medical communities are rediscovering the power of honey as antibiotic-resistant bacteria becomes more…

Raising Rabbits On The Homestead For Beginners
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Raising Rabbits On The Homestead For Beginners

Raising rabbits on a homestead for their meat is not for everyone. Realistically, rabbits are usually kept as pets, and it’s hard for some people who haven’t ever butchered rabbits to make that mental shift towards looking at rabbits as a food source. But if you’re looking for a consistent, quick, easy source of lean…

Make Goat Milk Soap Without Lye In Your Own Home! [Video Tutorial]
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Make Goat Milk Soap Without Lye In Your Own Home! [Video Tutorial]

You can’t make goat milk soap (or any soap) without lye, but I’ve shied away from it for the most part. While handling lye isn’t that dangerous (precautions are necessary but many people use it with goat milk without problems), I know a lot of you aren’t comfortable handling it. But the benefits of goat milk soap…

10 Ways To Use Banana Peels In Your Garden As Fertilizer
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10 Ways To Use Banana Peels In Your Garden As Fertilizer

If you have kids, you likely have a lot of banana peels floating around. Trashing them seems like kind of a waste so why not recycle them instead – in your garden. Did you know banana peels make one of the best fertilizers out there? I didn’t until I started researching it. Turns out, banana…