Gifts for Homesteaders to Share This Season
Giving homemade gifts is such a struggle, for real. It’s not the making that’s the hard. It’s the feeling like your gifts aren’t well received and trying to come up
Building the Foundation for an Off Grid Home
Beautiful houses aren’t built in a day. That’s what I have to keep reminding myself anyways. Seriously though things are going really well. We just got a third wall up
Romanticize the Hell Outa Homesteading
In my usual pursuing of homestead blogs I’ve noticed this re-occuring theme. Almost all the blogs I’ve read have at some point mentioned how homesteading isn’t as romantic as it
26 Easy Ideas to Save You Money in the Kitchen
Turn off the burner when cooking rice. When making rice I just bring it to a boil for a couple minutes and then shut off the burner. I let it sit on
Racing Towards Winter
Fall is a sprint. It’s like that bite in the air that we wake up to every morning now speeds everything up. Spring is supposed to be the season
Crafting Herbal Teas
Welcome autumn! It has finally started to really cool off here and I am so, so, so grateful. In the evenings it has been dipping into the 50s. The perfect
How We Chose Our Off Grid Homesite
We’re going off the grid! Okay don’t get too excited yet, it’ll be awhile. I know in many posts I’ve mentioned our new homesite but now I’m finally going to
Homestead Must-Reads: 5 Books for the End of Summer
Homesteading books are why I keep homesteading. Truth. They inspire me to keep going, do even more, and strive to better my methods. I’ll be honest it’s not a
Living Cell Phone Free
Alright so we do have a cell phone. It’s just not the kind “normal people” have. We have a flip phone, tracfone thingy that gets minutes each month. Scott
The Complete Guide to Haying Without Machinery
Recently we were given the opportunity to hay a part of a a local field that was too steep to cut with a tractor. Since we don’t have
