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

Crop Rotation Made Easy: Feed Your Plants Naturally

Starting an organic garden is a great first step to becoming more self-sufficient… but when you’re new to it, it can be overwhelming! Growing an organic…

How to Introduce New Chickens (Without Too Much Trouble)

Introducing new chickens to your flock is something most chicken keepers have to figure out at some point. When we tried introducing new chickens to our existing…

Lacto-Fermented Gingered Root Vegetables

I’ve mentioned before how much I love growing my own probiotics but this fermented root vegetables recipe is especially fun because it has a bit…

How to Freeze Squash (and Other Preservation Methods)

Wondering how to freeze squash? Winter squash is one of my favorite things to grow, eat, and preserve. This might be because it’s so easy to…

How Do I Grow My Own Food? Tips for the Budding Homesteader

If you’re anything like me you have a lot of reasons to want to garden and grow your own food. I grow my own food…

Homemade Vanilla Extract Recipe (EASY!)

This homemade vanilla extract recipe is really simple to make and a great alternative to pricey store-bought vanilla or imitation vanilla. I love to add pure…

Best Homesteading Books

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.