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Homesteading, Gardening and Backyard Farming

The Look of Today’s Homesteader

The Look of Today’s Homesteader

Are you drawn to a simpler homesteader way of life? If so, you are like so many other Americans tired of this crazy busy life and are yearning to...

Easiest Vegetables to Grow

Easiest Vegetables to Grow

If you are new to gardening choosing what to grow the first time can be overwhelming!  Nothing will discourage you more than planting a garden and...

5 Steps To Urban Homesteading

5 Steps To Urban Homesteading

How to be an urban homesteader? Homesteading and urban living ...a beautiful collision that is taking the country by storm. Are you trying to feed...

4 Tips on Homesteading for Beginners

4 Tips on Homesteading for Beginners

If you’re here, then you have a dream about homesteading A dream that consists of being more self-sufficient, maybe it’s gathering eggs or walking...

7 Signs You’re a Country Girl

7 Signs You’re a Country Girl

I've lived in the country for a better part of my whole life.  My fingernails have been caked with dirt, I've worn holes in the knees of my jeans,...

Best Backyard Chickens

Best Backyard Chickens

Best Backyard Chickens for the Small Farmer With so many choices it's hard to know which are the best backyard chickens to raise. Much of your...

Are You on a Quest for a Simple Life?

Are You on a Quest for a Simple Life?

This is how our simple life started. I remember the moment like it was yesterday... My husband and I were in our office, the phones were ringing,...

Beginners Guide to Raising Goats

Beginners Guide to Raising Goats

Quick Start Guide to Raising Goats I've always wanted to add goats to our homestead but was always a little nervous since I knew nothing about...

Tracy at Our Simple HomesteadHidden 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.

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