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It might add a bit of fun to the average homesteader, but no doubt at a hearty price it might not be in the first 10 ‘must gets’ for the farm. The closest thing to this would be the Quad bike. All this needs is a lawn mower on the back and you have a…
Home Made Sawmill From an Old Golf Cart, And It Works Great. What this one guy did when he decided it was too costly to buy lumber to make his own furniture so he made his own sawmill. Using an old golf cart and a fair bit of ingenuity, it took him about 8 hours to make…
AMAZING… Immerse In Water, Blow It Up Like a Ballon, Let It Set. DONE! The speed of how fast these go up is incredible. Its tough, durable and keeps the inside warm, or cool, no matter what you need. It takes off- grid shelters to a whole new level. Inspired by plaster casts wrapped…
Check Out Simple Method to Store Food… A homesteader is often thinking about how to store food and this is one method that’s pretty simple. Use it to simply store food or as an emergency cache of supplies. When Dan Leatherman wanted to build a root cellar he realized just how big a job it could…
Book Review: Country Wisdom & Know How Whether you are starting out homesteading or you’ve been at it for a while now, this book is one of the bibles in any homesteading home. With over 8,000 useful (and often not known about) skills, it includes step by step instructions from Producing Cheese, Butter and Yoghurt, to…
Step by Step Instructions to Make This Food Storage Shelf Need somewhere to store all that food you have grown, but don’t have a root cellar? Consider building a Food Storage Shelf like the one below. It will keep your food dry, organized, and easily accessible. If taken care of properly, you can enjoy garden fresh carrots and potatoes all…
How to Store Food Without Electricity Just Like Grandma Did! For many of us remembering Grandma and how she prepped food, canned it, stored it and cooked it was just part and parcel of our upbringing. We may have noticed that our mothers did the same prep, storing and cooking as she did, and it…
Check out these two ingenious hydroponic systems that allow you to grow a lot of food in a very small space… Building a vertical Hydroponic garden allows you to grow a lot of food using only a fraction of the space a traditional garden uses. Here are 2 cleaver setups. 1. The DIY Hydroponic Garden Tower… This…
Summer is just about over and fall begins. This is a great time to think about planting the fall garden with all the foods you will enjoy over winter. Think about what you and your family enjoy to eat from a winter garden, for example broccoli, leeks, onions, peas. Now is the time to start…
Many homesteads wont be near water so creating a way to get water is essential. Before the industrial era with its pumps and pipes bringing water in, people created wells. Homesteaders dug narrow holes down to the water table and then drew the water up that seeped into its bottom in a bucket attached to a…