Basic Homesteading Skills to Teach Your Children
Children are our future and the basic homesteading skills they learn will help them face the future prepared. More and more generations are turning back to the skills they learned as children to help them escape the face-paced crazy lifestyle that surrounds them. I...
Homestead Goals – Learning to Live without Walmart
Our Homesteading Goals Can it be done? Do we really think we could spend the rest of our life never walking into a big box store? That’s our dream…right there out in the open — our homesteading goals are to live WITHOUT Walmart! This morning I was making...
6 Steps for Living a Self-Sufficient Lifestyle
Are you looking to live on less, grow your own food, conserve energy and be more self-sufficient? Maybe you’re looking for ways to simplify your life. Where ever you find yourself, there are ways you can start today. Making the transition from a...
Raising Alpacas – Cost, Care, Cuteness
How much does it cost to raise alpacas? After months of researching on the in’s and out’s of raising alpacas it’s getting close for us to add a few to our homestead. Besides them being just adorable they have to serve a purpose. All of the...
Build a Cheap Wood Picket Fence for $200
Cheap Wood Picket Fence Here on our farm, we count our pennies and look for creative ways to reuse and recycle whatever we can. Any building project no matter how small is planned way in advance. This month’s project was to build a cheap wood picket...
Hidden away in the Upstate of South Carolina is a little farm where we call home. Surrounded by century-old pecan and oak trees, we live on a 120-year-old homestead. By the grace of God, we were called to restore this 1890 farmhouse along with its barns, gardens and long-forgotten cotton field to its original working farm. Dedicating ourselves to reusing, recycling and making do we are living a very simple life building our backyard farm.