Homesteading, Gardening and Backyard Farming
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
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...
10 Steps for Living a Simple Self-sufficient Lifestyle
10 Steps to Self-sufficiency Learning to live a simple life starts with learning how to take care of yourself; it's knowing that whatever tomorrow...
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...
Homestead Seed Kit Makes Choosing Seeds Easy
Save time with this Homestead Seed Kit For the last few weeks, my mailbox has been jam-packed with seed catalogs from at least ten different seed...
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 for the Small Farmer With so many choices it's hard to know which are the best backyard chickens to raise. Much of your...
13 Tips on How to Become More Self-Sufficient
When you make the mindful choice to simplify your life you automatically start thinking of ways you can take care of yourself and become more...
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
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...
Preserving Vegetables – Harvesting Your Garden
Preserving Vegetables to Last all Winter Long You've spent months planning, planting, growing, watering, fertilizing and now your garden is...
Homemade Beeswax Hand Lotion
From hive to honey to hands with homemade beeswax hand lotion Our bees have been busy making honey and filling our hive box with all-natural beeswax...
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.
