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Growing and heirloom garden is one of the best ways for a homesteader to be self sustaining. You can save your heirloom seeds from year to year. Heirloom gardening is so fun fulfilling.

3 Fantastic Reasons to Grow an Heirloom Garden

Choosing seeds to plant in the garden seems like an easy task. It has gotten more difficult because nowadays, if we want to be conscious of how our food is grown, the choice is much more involved. We have settled on growing an heirloom garden for our family.   Why We Choose to Grow an Heirloom Garden Choices, choices, choices….
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Over the years, I have learned a lot from homesteading. Here are a few of those lessons.

8 Incredible Lessons Learned from Homesteading

We’ve been homesteading for about 6 years now and boy, there’s a lot of valuable lessons we have learned from homesteading. It is a continual process of learning through trial and error. You never stop learning or improving on what you’re doing. That’s part of the beauty of it all. The homesteading lifestyle is easy to romanticize and in many…
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Getting yourself out of a homesteading slum. How to ditch those homesteading blues.

How to Homestead When Life is Hard- The Homesteading Slump

Have you ever found yourself in a homesteading slump? Maybe it seems as though everything you go to do is an epic fail, maybe you’ve lost your favorite animal, maybe you’re frustrated with your current situation or location, maybe life has kicked your tail and you don’t have any motivation, maybe you are dreaming of homesteading but just can’t find…
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5 Reasons to Get Goats. Adding goats to the homestead is a great thing to do. There are many reasons to have goats, here are a few.

Five Awesome Reasons to Get Goats

I want to welcome my friend, Jen, from The Easy Homestead. She will be sharing 5 reasons to get goats with us.   By: Jen from The Easy Homestead, Contributing Writer The number one reason to gets goats is… They are super cute. The end. I mean, seriously- do you even need another reason? Ok ok- all joking (and a…
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Butchering Livestock at Home

6 Tips for Butchering at Home

If you’ve been following my family for very long, you know that we like to raise our own meat. You also probably know that we tend to butcher our own meat as well. We’ve butchered pigs, turkeys, and chickens. I’ve learned a few great tips while butchering at home. The only animal that we raise and haven’t butchered for ourselves…
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All natural, homemade udder balm. You dairy animals will love you for using this udder balm on them. This is also great for chapped hands and dry skin. Everything in it is 100% natural and safe.

Homemade Udder Balm

Sometimes when you have a milk cow or goat, they get chapped teats or even some sore spots. It is not fun for the animal or the human. I have found the BEST homemade udder balm EVER! I really am that excited about it. I’ve used this udder balm recipe to help relieve udder swelling, symptoms of mastitis, injured teats,…
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