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
9 Living Mulches That Will Transform Your Garden
How to Use Mulch in the Garden
How to Create a No-Till Garden the Easy Way
Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas Guide
2022 Homesteader Gift Guide
How to Preserve Blueberries
Companion Planting and Plant Guilds: How to Get Started
11 Perennial Vegetables and Fruit You Must Start Growing
21 Shade-Loving Plants for Your Garden
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.