The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency by Anna Hess is an inexpensive guide to get you started with homesteading. Loaded with color photos, this book would make a good “coffee table” book, conversation starter or idea brewer.
This is a guest post by Jennifer Sartell of Iron Oak Farm sharing their experience with getting started beekeeping. It’s amazing to see our little farm growing, taking shape in the nooks and crannies of our property. So steady, so quiet, it moves along. I look out over our pumpkin patch and see the giant gourds,…
For the majority of the American population, these terms probably conjure images of ’60’s hippies, rugged mountain men or perhaps Little House on the Prairie. For me, it’s all about simply taking more personal responsibility and control of caring for my family. I am tired of big corporations and big government dictating my health and…