Homesteading

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Is Your Soil Getting Enough Calories?

It’s time to look outside of the box and really begin to examine and applying new farming strategies that are more symbiotic and efficient for us in the long run.

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Jumpstart Your Garden: Regrow Vegetable Food Scraps

Try out these simple kitchen-back-to-garden tricks just for the experience or to boost your food production and shorten the cycle of germination–to–dinner plate.

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Kefir: Your Solution To Milk Without Refrigeration

Kefir is a healthful yogurt substitute you can make yourself – and it can be stored without refrigeration.

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Killing Our Dinner i.e. What Homesteading is Really All About

We finally did it. We dispatched, dressed, and cooked our first homegrown rabbit.

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Knowle Cottage

When they were tiny it was easier, they would all get dumped in, washed and dried in the parlour in front of the range. When they got older and developed sensibilities they bathed in the scullery.

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Makin’ Bacon

Homemade bacon? No problem! With these step-by-step instructions, you can make a slab of freshly smoked bacon from the convenience of your own home.

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Micro Farms Create Urban Backyard Sustainability

America was founded upon an agrarian lifestyle, and farmers were the driving force behind America.  Currently, people are trying to find ways […]

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Microgreens: Tiny Plants With Huge Nutritional Value

Don’t let the size of these petite vegetable greens deceive you – their miniature parts hold a surprising amount of nutrients and flavor.

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Modern Life: A Balloon About To Pop

What good is an education that doesn’t teach children to be independent thinkers? That doesn’t teach them to look after themselves?

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My First Kill

When the time comes to take a life, will you be able to do it? All I can say is saying that you will butcher and actually performing the task are two separate entities.

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New “Honey on Tap” Invention Will Change the Beekeeping Industry

Keeping bees can be very time consuming and requires a lot of additional equipment. But the beekeeping industry is going to drastically change thanks to this new innovative product.

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New Farming Technique Eradicates Weeds Without Pesticides

With the higher yields this would undoubtedly create, it might finally put a dent in the notoriously high costs of organic food.

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