There are a lot of similarities between keeping ducks and chickens. They can be kept in similar style coops or shelters with just a few modifications. They can both eat chicken food, as long as you ...
20 Self-Sufficiency Hacks You Can Implement Right Now
In a perfect world, we’d all have plenty of time to prepare for emergencies and increase our self-sufficiency to be more resilient. The reality is that we have limited time available to devote to ...
When and How to Use Humic Acid Fertilizer to Improve Soil
In my early gardening experience, I naively thought that I grew plants. Now, I realize that an incredibly fascinating and intelligent, natural system actually grows plants. I just offer a little ...
How to Decide the Correct Plant Spacing in Your Garden
I am constantly reading guides on how to grow various plants. If I introduce something new to my garden line-up, I check at least 15 growing guides to make sure I have well-rounded knowledge about how ...
When and How to Use Rock Dust for Your Garden
I was searching for some garden information the other day and I came across a video of someone conducting a soil amendment experiment on their raised beds. They used compost in one bed, another bed ...
10 Tips on Long-Term Garden Care for More Productivity
A homestead garden is a long-term commitment. It can take between 5-10 years just to develop high-quality soil. By gradually improving your soil year after year, your harvests will become more ...
13 Ideas to Make an Elegant French Garden
My love of gardening began on a trip to France many years ago. That was the first time I realized that some people treated gardening as a pleasure rather than a chore. The French gardeners I met ...
21 Things to Know Before You Buy an Old Farmhouse
When I first started looking for a homestead, I was looking at lots of old farmhouses. I wanted to restore something with a bit of history. Unfortunately, the reality of buying an old farm was a lot ...
How to Cope With COVID-19 and Self-Quarantine as a Homesteader
On some level, most of us homestead so that we can be ready in the event of an emergency. Well, frankly we’re facing one today. Countries around the world are working hard to try to slow the spread of ...