Homesteading, Gardening and Backyard Farming
6 Signs That Signal You are Ready to Start Homesteading
Let us start homesteading! Modern life encourages consumerism. Goods are mass-produced unsustainably to cater to an ever-growing hyper-consumer...
Homesteading a Growing Trend Among Millennials
Homesteading ... a growing trend. Whether you're new to homesteading or you're a professional homesteader, what you may not know is how much of a...
Finally a pair of garden boots I LOVE!
Best women's garden boots I've ever owned! It's early morning. It rained yesterday, the yard is muddy, and I need to get across the yard to feed the...
What Should You Consider When Building a Trash Shed?
We're Building a Trash Shed After round and round with our neighborhood family of raccoons, we've spent the last week or more researching trash shed...
Growing Herbs on the Homestead
Herbs have multiple benefits and have been used for centuries. Chefs love the flavors they give to food, while herbalists adore them for their...
5 Simple Ways to Add Permaculture to Your Backyard Farm
Permaculture isn’t all about food forests and natural water supplies - it’s more about having a positive and holistic attitude to life. When Bill...
How To Keep Bugs Out Of A Vegetable Garden Naturally
No matter where you live, you are likely going to have to deal with bugs in your garden. It is a real bummer to have your vegetables you have worked...
Starting a Vegetable Garden for Beginners
Gardening for Beginners I encourage you to take this time in your life to get serious about learning how to provide for your family's most basic...
Restoring This Old Homestead – Starting from Scratch
I never dreamed I’d be thinking about restoring an old homestead again. But here we are staring all over again with new little farm, I can already...
How to Build a Cheap Raised Garden Bed
Cheap Garden Beds - Using Recycled Building Supplies After four years of heavy use, my raised garden beds are starting to fall apart and need...
9 Tips for Raising Baby Chickens
Raising Baby Chickens for Beginners I would consider us seasoned baby chicken growers. We have successfully raised over one hundred baby chicks...
25 Vegetable Gardening Tips + Old-time Planting Lore
It's Vegetable Garden Planting Time There is something magical that happens in the spring, things that I can count on every year. The birds sing...
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.
