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Self-reliance often starts with feeding yourself from your own land. What can you grow? Where can you start? Check out our gardening section for tips on homestead vegetable gardening and landscaping.
Shop less and save money by making more of your own food and preserving the food you grow. Turn your homestead kitchen into a powerhouse of self-reliance with cooking tips from experienced homesteaders.
When you can make or build something yourself, you save money and become more self-reliant. From energy efficiency projects to homemade gifts and natural cleaning, we've got you covered.
Homestead How-To was provided with a review copy of this book by Cool Springs Press. Vegetable garden pests are the worst. You spend all spring growing seedlings indoors, prep your beautiful garden beds, and plant your baby seedlings outdoors only to have them EATEN by…
Cast iron pans are literally one of my favorite homestead kitchen tools. They heat up well, don’t stick too much, can go from stovetop to oven, and last decades (if you take care of them). Learning how to clean and season cast iron pans is…
This method for making homemade dog jerky treats comes to us from guest author, Devon Dams O’Connor, a writer from upstate New York who is also an inspiring cook, gardener, and community-builder. I’m on a constant quest to make things for less than the cost…