Grow Your Homesteading Skills

If you’ve been homesteading for a short while you’ve likely come to a point where you have some basic skills but want to grow your knowledge and skill base. Here are some ways to do that:

Free Homesteading Resources

45+ Permaculture Plants to Grow Now

If you’re looking for permaculture garden plants to include in your garden design, you’re in the right place! It can ...
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9 Living Mulches That Will Transform Your Garden

Living mulch is essential in the permaculture garden. Adding any type of mulch around garden plants provides many health and ...
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How to Use Mulch in the Garden

If you think about all of the leaves, twigs, nutshells, and plants covering the ground in a forest, it's easy ...
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How to Create a No-Till Garden the Easy Way

No-till gardening is my favorite way to maintain healthy gardens without chemicals. There are several specific no-till methods such as ...
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Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas Guide

If you're searching for homemade gift ideas for your friends and family, you're in luck. I have put together a ...
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2022 Homesteader Gift Guide

When I think of buying gifts for my friends and family, whether they are homesteaders or not, I like to ...
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How to Preserve Blueberries

Is learning how to preserve blueberries something you've always wanted to try? Maybe having a freezer full of homegrown blueberries ...
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Companion Planting and Plant Guilds: How to Get Started

Companion planting and plant guilds are two garden planning methods to master if growing more food with minimal effort is ...
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11 Perennial Vegetables and Fruit You Must Start Growing

Planting perennial vegetables is one of the very best ways to expand your garden and grow your homesteading skills. Beginners ...
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21 Shade-Loving Plants for Your Garden

If you have ever considered shade-loving plants for your garden, this year is the perfect time to jump in! Gardeners ...
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Best Homesteading Resources

Gaia’s Garden: a Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture – This is a great read for growing more food with less work. I employ many of the strategies in the book with great success.

The Encyclopedia of Country Living: The Original Manual for Living off the Land & Doing It Yourself – One of my favorite homesteading books, this is the book that started it all for me! It discusses many topics with enough depths that you feel like you can get started.

The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It – This well-rounded guide will have an answer for almost any question. It’s the perfect book to have on hand when starting a new homesteading project.