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The 30-Day Homestead Challenge

Okay, I want to be upfront with you. When I first started homesteading, I spent way too long reading about ...

A Practical Week-by-Week Garden Plan that Doubles your Harvest

If you've ever walked out to your garden in August and thought why do I have a hundred zucchinis at ...

10 Tools That Cut Homestead Chores in Half (And How to Actually Use Them)

Let's be honest. Some days, the homestead wins. The laundry's piled up, the chickens need water again, the garden looks ...

How to Get Started with Square Foot Gardening

One of the easiest ways to grow more food in a limited space is square foot gardening. There are many ...

How you can Live an Analog Life as a Homesteader

If you are a homesteader, chances are you are already living a slower, more intentional way of life than the ...

15 Meals you can Make when Payday is Still Week away

When payday is still a week away, and the fridge starts looking a lot emptier than 4 days ago, a ...

10 Baking Recipes That Use Up Too Much Milk

Wasting food is not an option - especially these days with the ever-rising price of groceries, including milk. So, if ...

11 Things to do on the Homestead in the Winter

Winter is the time of year life on the homestead slows down. The garden is asleep, building projects get put ...

How to Keep your Chicken’s Water from Freezing

Winter does not play around, especially if you live in a northern climate like I do where temperatures dip well ...

How to Make Christmas Feel Nostalgic

Do you ever want to go back to Christmas past? You know the one I'm talking about. The Christmases of ...

Confessions of a “sort-of” jogger: What Running Taught me About Faith and Healing

I'm a sort-of jogger. Let me explain. I go through seasons where I will regularly jog. Sometimes those seasons last ...

The Day my Dinner Blew Up

I didn’t even hear it explode. The kids were young, loud, and running circles around the kitchen, and I was ...