How to harvest dill without killing the plant! Dill is one of the favorite aromatic herbs around the world – and with a good reason. This highly fragrant and tender plant will perfectly spice up many of your favorite home…
With summer finally heating up in the USA, homesteaders and farmers are starting to ask me about the best lawn mowers for handling their large, unkempt lawns. So if you’re looking for the best lawn mower for 5 acres or…
Best careers for living off the grid! If you are anything like me, the word “career” will make you shudder! The main allure of creating an off-grid life was ditching the “9 til 5” office job, but that does not…
Summer in the USA is just around the corner, and that means a number of things. It means long, lazy sunsets under the warm buzz of insects. (Or the blaring roar of ten thousand cicadas – watch out, East Coast!)…
I found a duck egg this morning after several months of watching our 12 Indian runner ducks scoffing down food without giving us anything in exchange. It made me wonder what makes them stop laying and, more importantly, why, on…
Potatoes are one of the best foods in the world! Red potatoes, purple potatoes, yellow potatoes – I love them all! Not only are potatoes delicious and hardy – but they’re also affordable and fun to grow. With the cost of food…
There are countless lawn mowers out there on the market. Arguably, too many! You have your cheapies and your ultra-expensive mowers. Then you have everything else in between that may have cute bells and whistles. There are so many options,…
There’s a common misconception that composting requires lots of space and materials, yet composting can easily be accomplished in a 5-gallon bucket you can find at the local hardware store for a few dollars. Let’s break down two different composting…
Recently, I’ve been toying with the idea of introducing donkeys to my homestead. A friend told me they make excellent guard animals, and, as I’m looking for something to protect my dwarf goats from the ravenous jaws of the black-backed…
Have you noticed that finding a reliable lawn mower made in the USA is much trickier than it looks? So have we! Because it doesn’t matter if you’re mowing a tiny plot of grass or an entire golf course –…
Chickens have a surprisingly varied diet and will gulp down the most disgusting-looking insects and worms just as happily as they will their normal chicken feed. As chickens enjoy a wide range of different foods, you can easily find tasty…
The roots of the boonie hat have a unique place in history. Soldiers wore this hat in the Vietnam War to give themselves relief from extreme tropical weather conditions. The core inspiration of the boonie hat traces back further to…
Red clover, or Trifolium pratense, is a plant in the legume family (Fabaceae) that has medicinal uses in herbalism. If you want to use red clover as a nourishing infusion, for its phytoestrogen content, or for its blood-purifying abilities, you…
Chickens are fun but noisy, ducks are completely quackers, and geese are, in my humble opinion, the devil incarnate. But what about emus? Are the benefits of raising an emu chick sufficient to offset the expense of keeping these large,…
A backyard isn’t complete without a swing set for the kids, but what if you have a small yard? You’ll need the best swing sets for small yards! There are some awesome swing sets that don’t need much space at…
