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

Manure Tea Recipe: How to Make This Amazing Garden Staple

Want a simple manure tea recipe? This is it! I’ve had many gardens in my years as a homesteader. My first was a single aloe…

Homemade SPF Lip Balm Recipe for Any Season

If you’re looking for a homemade SPF lip balm recipe that’s safe for the whole family, you’ve found it! I love being outside as much…

How to Grow Herbs Indoors (Free Guide!)

Are you wondering how to grow herbs indoors? This free guide is for you! Whether you’re into culinary herbs or medicinal herbs (or both!), growing…

6 Tips for Easy Homestead Goal Setting (That Will Help You Focus)

Do you have homestead goals? Homestead goal setting is important! For many of us, we have sort-of goals and kind-of ideas for the future but…

2020 Homesteader Gift Guide

When I think of buying gifts for my friends and family, whether they are homesteaders or not, I like to make sure what I get…

18 Best Plants to Attract Beneficial Insects to Your Garden

If you’re hoping to attract beneficial insects and animals to your garden, this post is for you! Whenever I go out into my garden in…

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.