Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
* This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure. Every year around this time, I compile a list of my favourite things: Things that I love, use or covet for my own homestead, and things that I know other modern...
DIY Home & Body, Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
Save money, reduce food waste and and improve everything from your soil to your gut health with this list of 11 frugal ways to use kitchen scraps in your home and garden. *** We’re such a wasteful society, especially here in the west. The mounds of waste...
Dreams & Reflections, Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it really means to be “self-reliant.” We talk a lot about self-reliance (or self-sufficiency) in the homesteading community, and outwardly it may seem as if the goal of “achieving” self-reliance is what ultimately...
Organic Gardening, Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
* This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure. If you grow plants from seed (or if you want to), you’re likely going to want to start a few of them indoors. And if you start your seeds indoors,...
Real Food, Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
* This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure. When grocery shopping, remember that not all food is created equal! Here are a few healthy grocery shopping tips to help you choose better! * * * If you’ve...
Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
* This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure. When we think of homesteading, visions of backyard chickens, bountiful veggie gardens and jars of home-canned foods lining pantry shelves are usually the first...
