Urban Homesteading Requires a Slightly Different Approach Rural homesteaders have pretty much always kept chickens, and in fact the practice is nearly synonymous with homesteading, farming and rural living. After all, keeping chickens helps you be more self-sufficient, and with all that land, it’s a good use of space to keep animals that will help…

There are so many threats to our health out there that sometimes it’s hard to tell when a headache is due to the day to day stress of life of if it has a more sinister cause. Toxic mold is something that everyone in all climates needs to be aware of and knowing the bodies…

If you need to feed your livestock during a drought, then you need this incredible feed that will still keep growing! There is no doubt about it, having your own homestead with livestock can be very nice. It can also come with unpredictable weather and long periods with no rain. This means that in order…

If you want your homestead to be successful, here are five things that you should do during the last few weeks of winter! Many of us love having our homestead because we like to live the way we want and don’t want to have to rely on anyone else. We take pride in each one…

Whenever people mention weeds I think back to the summers of picking weeds out of my grandmother’s gardens. I hated it. It was hot, sticky and frankly, I would rather have been doing anything else than picking weeds. It was backbreaking work and I hated it. Not once, however, did I think that those weeds…

If you live in the rural parts of the north, or at least north enough to where the snow can actually accumulate on the ground, then you may have noticed homes that seem to be within a few feet of being buried in mounds of snow. While yes the constant snowfall may play some part…