Category: Homesteading / Gardening

  • Why Energy Efficiency is Critical for Your Homestead

    Why Energy Efficiency is Critical for Your Homestead

    Imagine riding an exercise bike that’s connected to a single lightbulb. With very little effort or time spent on the bike, you could light that bulb with no problem. Now imagine riding that same bike, but this time you’re trying to light 100 light bulbs at once. How much longer do you think it would…

  • 10 Tips for Caring for Your Land Over the Winter

    10 Tips for Caring for Your Land Over the Winter

    Whether you’re a doomsday prepper, an off-grid homesteader or a die-hard survivalist, you likely have a fair amount of land on which you grow food or maintain livestock. This way, you don’t have to hunt and forage or rely on grocery stores for food. During the warmer months, this approach might seem simple — idyllic,…

  • Creating a Defensive Perimeter Around Your Homestead

    Creating a Defensive Perimeter Around Your Homestead

    You’ve built your homestead, raised livestock and crops and organized a system that will help you live on your own indefinitely. You have a sustainable water source, bought equipment to care for your land and invested in renewable energy. You’re ready to exist off the grid. All this shouldn’t go to waste because you didn’t…

  • How to Grow a Successful Garden Through Winter

    How to Grow a Successful Garden Through Winter

    Spring, summer, and fall are the months all home gardeners live for, especially with the perfect temperatures and conditions to grow nearly any food. Once the fall harvest is over, many gardeners put away their equipment for the winter and prepare their soils for the colder temperatures and snowfall ahead. Although many people think gardening…

  • Power from Pond Water? Here’s How…

    Power from Pond Water? Here’s How…

    I thought this was a neat find from a prepping perspective. Most of us focus on solar power for off-grid needs, a few supplement with wind power, but only the rare few use water. In fact, I’ve never seen anyone utilize pond water to produce power enough to run power tools, charge a battery bank,…

  • 11 Tips for Financing Off-Grid Living

    11 Tips for Financing Off-Grid Living

    When you decide to leave the comforts of on-the-grid living, you’re choosing to lead a different lifestyle. It certainly isn’t easy leaving the grid, but it is worth it. It’s a great way to lower your cost of living, and you learn so many new skills as you navigate sustainable living. An increasing number of…

  • How to Start Your Own Fish Farm

    How to Start Your Own Fish Farm

    As someone who is self-sufficient and off-the-grid, you want to be able to provide everything for you and your family. Homesteaders aim to source their food, water and other needs for themselves rather than rely on grocery stores and other mainstream resources. Although many homesteaders resort to growing their own produce and raising cattle, chickens,…

  • What to Know About Horses for Farming on Your Homestead

    What to Know About Horses for Farming on Your Homestead

    Horses are powerful animals. There’s a reason why vehicles have “horsepower” and not “cow power” or “dog power.” The strength of a horse far exceeds that of most other animals, which is why they’ve been used for years to help with the most demanding tasks. Trading in your tractors and other machines for a team…

  • Pros and Cons of Growing Your Own Animal Feed

    Pros and Cons of Growing Your Own Animal Feed

    Whether you’re raising livestock to sell, eat or produce milk, eggs and cheese, feeding your animals high-quality food is a must. Of course, doing so can become quite expensive, especially when supply and demand fluctuate so quickly. By now, you might even wonder whether growing your own feed is a better alternative. After all, if…