Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
* This article may contain affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure. Every year around this time, I compile a list of the year’s best gifts for the homesteader(s) in your life, whether that means other people on your...
Blog, Organic Gardening, Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
We’ve had a summer growing season as strange and unpredictable as 2020 itself. Despite a warm, sunny spring, the summer got off to an unseasonably cool, wet start in June and July. This meant that some of our heat-loving crops like tomatoes and peppers got off to a...
Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
If I had to choose a single word to sum up 2020, it would have to be “stressful.” Or “overwhelming.” Or… Okay, I’d choose two words. Between the coronavirus pandemic, sky-high political tensions, adapting to the “new normal,” going double speed on all of our homestead...
Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
Homeschooling has, traditionally, gone hand-in-hand with homesteading. Families whose lives centered around their homes have often chosen to homeschool their children on the homestead too, blending curriculum seamlessly with domestic life. Nowadays, many homesteading...
