After a long Vermont winter, the arrival of wildflower season is celebration-worthy! Fields of dandelions, grassy meadows dotted with violets and strawberry flowers, abandoned farmsteads and roadsides lush with lilac hedges all beg to be smelled and sampled. How to best enjoy this bounty of edible ...
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9 Reasons NOT to Build a Homestead From Scratch
Building a homestead from scratch. For many, it's the ultimate homestead dream. It certainly was ours when we moved to Missouri 6 years ago and built an off the grid homestead on raw land - but is it really the best path forward?
Yes, it can be enormously appealing to design, plan, and ...
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Easy to Grow Herbs for your Homestead Medicinal Herb Garden
Growing herbs in a homestead medicinal herb garden is an efficient and enjoyable way to generate the raw materials you need to craft herbal remedies. Instead of sourcing dried herbs online or purchasing fresh herbs from the grocery store or farmer's market, you can grow abundant, inexpensive, and ...
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Choosing the Right Evaporator for Backyard Sugaring
The process of making syrup is an easy one: Tap trees, collect sap, boil it down to evaporate the water content and concentrate the naturally occurring sugars in the sap. But if you're a homesteader new to sugaring, how do you evaporate gallons of sap effectively and efficiently? In this post I'm ...
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7 Reasons to Rent a Homestead Before you Buy (and 3 Reasons Not To)
My family's homesteading path has been one full of transitions and new adventures. We started out in 1999 on a rental homestead in Oregon, moved to Missouri in 2012 to build an off the grid homestead from scratch on land we purchased with cash, and in the fall of 2018, moved once again, this time to ...
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The Top Homesteading Posts of 2018
Each year I like to peek back into the Homestead Honey archives to share the top posts of the year. This year, the writing, editing, and publication of Family Homesteading and our move to Vermont took much of my time and energy, so I have to admit that the top homesteading posts of 2018 were ... a ...
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