Bring your kids home for a quality homesteading, homeschooling experience. Sample schedules, chore ideas, activities, and support!
Foraging rose hips, learn how to identify, harvest, and use them. You will be amazed at the medicinal and nutritional benefits rose hips offer.
Curious about what it's like to homestead in a tropical paradise? Kris at Attainable Sustainable is giving us a taste of what it's like today!
15 Vintage Skills That Can Be Learned On YouTube! There are many skills you can taught simply by watching well done YouTube videos for homesteaders.
Foraging rose hips, learn how to identify, harvest, and use them. You will be amazed at the medicinal and nutritional benefits rose hips offer.
These pioneer recipes are simple. Even though they were prepared from scratch, they're easy to make and taste amazing.
Want to hear the truth about homesteading? It's way harder than you think...and also more awesome than you could imagine.
If the off-grid life is calling to you, then you have an adventurous spirit. But to be self-sufficient, you need these basic pioneer skills.
The handmade life is a busy one full of practical necessities. We can become more efficient by using down-time to improve homesteading skills with easily available online and local courses.
A beverage for a joyful heart! Spiced hawthorn and rose hip mead marries herbal medicine with fermented libation.
Shopping at the farmers market makes you think about the foods you eat. Here are some things you will learn from your first visit.
Homesteading skills are sort of a dying art. They used to be handed down naturally from generation to generation and we need to do that more than ever.
The homestead kitchen is the heart of the homestead. Now you need to equip your homestead kitchen so it works for you. Here are some of the essentials...
Management tools are indispensable for keeping the home and hearth organized, tracking all the happenings, and maintaining sanity.
Learn how to organize your homestead with a planner. In this post, I go step-by-step on how a planner will help you stay sane on your homestead.
From gardening, cooking, & herbalism to natural crafts, Family Homesteading shares stories, recipes & projects that deepen relationships and build self-sufficiency skills.
A new homestead can produce stress, overwhelm, and fear. Here are my best tips and encouragement on starting a homestead from scratch.
3 steps for keeping your kids safe in the canning kitchen l Troubleshooting and tips for age groups, knife skills, and working together.
I get a number of emails from folks curious about moving to Wyoming to homestead. And I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, considering I often post photos like this: And this: And this: Pretty picturesque, dontcha think? But when I get emails from people who, thanks to my blog, are ready to move to Wyoming […]
You don't need a lot of property to earn money from your homestead. Start making money on your homestead or farm today doing what you already love to do. With more than 50 ideas, there's something for everyone who wants to start earning an money from home.
If the off-grid life is calling to you, then you have an adventurous spirit. But to be self-sufficient, you need these basic pioneer skills.
Start small, live within your means, and apply these Top 6 Money Principles for Homesteaders to help afford your homesteading dreams!
“How on earth do you homestead with small children?” I get that question a LOT. Honestly, I’ve been thinking about how to answer it for a while now… I haven’t addressed it yet, because, well, I haven’t been exactly sure what to say. You see, I don’t really have a formula or schedule or routine […]
Historical crafts are a great way to bring history to life for older kids. So it's time to put down the textbook and add one of these easy Pioneer crafts to your American history lesson plans.
Learn what you need to do before you begin your homesteading venture. Planning is key to your success.
Building a strong homesteading community comes from trust, communication, and re-addressing the simple question, “How can we become MORE interdependent?”
Homesteading with kids isn't easy but for us, it's necessary. Here's our tips on how to homestead with kids, including kid chores, our parenting philosophy, and more.
Harvesting rhubarb and knowing when the rhubarb is ripe enough to pick, is a skill any home grower of this unusual perennial vegetable needs to be able to successfully enjoy rhubarb's tart flavors.
I rise after the sun around these parts. I've set apart that hour before the kids get up to my first cup of coffee and the gardens. A day in the life...
3 steps for keeping your kids safe in the canning kitchen l Troubleshooting and tips for age groups, knife skills, and working together.
If the off-grid life is calling to you, then you have an adventurous spirit. But to be self-sufficient, you need these basic pioneer skills.
Farm Wedding on the Homestead l DIYs, tips, how-to's and more for a frugal, green and rustic, family-friendly homestead wedding l Homestead Lady.com
This list of fast growing vegetables (and best varieties) will get you harvestable produce from your garden in just a few short weeks.
Tons of fun & simple pioneer activities for Pioneer Day including pioneer games, food ideas, books and movies to celebrate Pioneers.
Winter on the homestead isn't boring or gloomy. It's the time of the year when we focus on winter homesteading activities to make our next year even better.
Good tools make jobs faster, homesteading more enjoyable, and tasks easier. These 17 homesteading tools will help you get the job done!
If the off-grid life is calling to you, then you have an adventurous spirit. But to be self-sufficient, you need these basic pioneer skills.
Make your own plant pots & baskets from natural materials with this simple tutorial - basket weaving for beginners!
Harvesting lavender each year is one of the greatest joys here on the hill. Timing when to harvest, prune, cut back, and dry is a skill to hone.
Keep the abundance of the earth in the pantry with these 10 easy projects to preserve spring produce with both sweet and savory delights.
Building a homestead from scratch may be your dream, but is it really the best path forward? Here are 9 compelling reasons to purchase a home instead.
Needs a gift for homesteaders? Here you will find the ultimate guide of 100 amazing useful gifts for homesteaders no matter where they live.
Vanilla enhances the flavor of chocolate, improves the appetite and was traditionally used as an aphrodisiac. This recipe uses 1 vanilla bean per fluid ounce of bourbon or vodka.
Using wood ash in the garden and in your compost pile is an inexpensive way to fight pest and improve soil quality.
