It’s so easy these days to stroll through the grocery store and pick up whatever you feel like eating- regardless of what the season is. Do you want to eat strawberries in the middle of winter? Do you want to eat winter squash in the summer? These are readily available – though their flavor and […]

Homesteading is a lifestyle or a mindset,not a particular property layout or type of farm. I think if you’re here, you probably have some sense that the system is messed up. Everyday, we see in the news about more and more people experiencing more and more health problems. More natural disasters. More dependence on big […]

I get all excited and nerdy about planning all the plants that I want for every part of my yard, so this is a really fun activity – and it’s usedfull too of course. The possibilities here are pretty endless. Create a scale map of your property and you can draw in all the plants […]

I originally started my homesteading journey when I was married and a stay-at-home mom. This gave me a lot of time to spend on growing, canning, cooking and baking, and all the other radical homemaking and urban farming tasks. When I started going through my divorce, I wasn’t able to keep up with all of […]