After chores
All around the homestead
- Equipping the "ideal" homestead in the 21st century
- How we use time determines what our lives are, what we are
- It takes time to acquire tools and experience
- Time saving devices
- How many ways can you save time?
- Are you depriving your kids?
- Cold-stirred, no-cook lye soap
- Make a smoker from a cardboard box
Alternative energy
- Practical solar power
- Forecast for alternative energy: Sunny, and exciting!
- Solar, wind and steam: A cost comparison
- Heating with wood
- Heat with peat moss
- A silent killer: Carbon monoxide
- Renewable system payback
- Free hot water
- There’s a renewable energy system for you
- Site specific system designs
- 25 years off-grid, a retrospective
- Getting started with solar power
- Living off the grid: A wife's perspective
- Piecing together a spanking new $600 solar-electric system
- Purchasing and using a masonry stove
- Selling the sun: Solar and wind options for grid-tied homes
- Series and parallel wiring
- Home heating from the good Earth
- Unfolding the complexity of wind towers
- Choosing the right off-grid inverter
- Stand-alone solar water pumping
- Calculating your daily solar energy harvest
- Midwest couple doubles their diesel dollars
- Battery options for your off-grid home
Homestead Construction
- Energy efficient homes
- Frequently asked questions about cordwood masonry
- Building for free with "alternative" natural material
- Construct a straw bale greenhouse
- Designing your ideal homestead
- A backyard lean-to
- Build a wood-burning cookstove from a steel barrel
- Build your own solar shower for pennies
Country kitchen
- Learning to cook on a woodstove
- The Fab Four: How to survive on wheat, dry milk, honey and salt
- Cheese: A natural way to preserve your milk
- Solar food drying
- How To Make Vinegar
- Doc Salsbury makes sourdough
- Alternate heat sources for food dehydration
- No-frills oven-drying of fruits and vegetables
- Slow food—A Celebration of Life
- Baked beans and stews
- The versatile meat grinder
- Fall butchering advice & reminders
- The best butcherin' recipes
- There's yeast in them there hills
- Mead: Gift of the gods
- Delightful eggplant dishes from Eastern lands
- It’s easy to make your own yogurt
- Sourdough bread variations
- Africa's delicious gift to the world
- Cast iron in the country kitchen
- Why eat whole foods?
- Here's a tasty, healthful, inexpensive snack
- Make goat milk mozzarella & Make your own rennet
- Try some goat milk ice cream
- Stocking your emergency food pantry
- Read the instructions that came with your pressure cooker, or beware the ominous Red Rain!
- Taking care of your game meat
- Grow your own stir-fry
- Cider making: A pressing concern
- The whole wheat experience
- Cabbage: One of the most nutritious vegetables
- Cranberries: A healthy and versatile fruit
- Fill your pantry with help from Mother Nature
Country neighbors
Homestead crafts
Crops & soils
- The soul of soil
- How to make compost
- No-till, permanent bed farming
- Evaluating hay quality
- Weather and plant maturity affect hay quality
Homestead finances
- Do your research before buying your homestead
- How to thrive on half your income
- How we went from $42,000 to $6,500 and lived to tell about it!
Homestead firearms
The garden
- How to buy a good garden tool
- How to grow mushrooms on a log
- Grow herbs in winter
- Can your garden provide homestead income?
- The beauty and bounty of basil
- Scarecrows that actually work
- Our greenhouse refuge
- Germination and transplant tips for vigorous plants
- The charm of chives
- Animal gardening
- The beauty of scythes
- Okra: Useful and attractive
- Feed your trees
- Strawberry delight
- This is not your Daddy's okra! Big okra with big taste
- Kale in the fall garden
- Make a cold frame from your scrap pile
- Botanical Latin for the plebeian reader
- Preserving your harvest with turn-of-the-century methods
- The gardening game. Do you know where your seeds come from?
- Growing organic strawberries
- What is intensive planting? How does it work?
- An abundance of squash
- Earth's most user-friendly composter: Used tires
- The secrets to growing delectable sweet corn
- The joys and challenges of growing herbs
- Try kohlrabi for a unique treat
Homestead health
Homestead household hints
Homestead landscape
Homestead livestock
- Take a tip from Nature: Farm wild
- Livestock on the homestead
- Donkeys on the homestead
- On the loose at the 15th Annual Wisconsin Grazing Conference
- The importance of biodiversity in livestock production
- 15th Annual Wisconsin Grazing Conference, Part III
The apiary
- Getting started with bees
- Housing and feeding your new packaged bees
- Keep your bees healthy
- Your first year with bees: Now is the time to plan for next year<
The cow barn
- Pasture and cattle: Some tips for beginners
- Love my Dutch Belted!
- Selecting cattle for your small farm
- Malpresentations & manipulations
Feeds & feeding
The goat barn
- Why Oberbasli Swiss
- Start your own meat goat herd
- True success comes with planning
- Small-scale milking machines
- Contain your kids with this handy disbudding box
The henhouse
- Guineas for tick control
- Build your own small-scale chicken plucker
- Rearrange your chicken yard for fresh grazing
The horse barn
- Attending the newborn foal
- Horses I have known - There's a breed out there for everyone
- Draft horses—as useful today as ever
The pig pen
- Raise a pig in your backyard
- Cold weather planning for pigs
- Living high on half the hog
- Water your hogs without using electricity
- Raising your own backyard pig
The rabbitry
The sheep shed
More Resources
MagazineIn the wild
- The brown recluse spider
- Milkweed: A truly remarkable wild vegetable
- Sumac: The wild lemonade berry
- Cooking over the campfire
- Living on the wild side
- Drink nature-ally
- Wild onions—punchy, pungent, perfect
- The pronghorn: Back from the edge of oblivion
- Identifying and harvesting wild plants
- Basswood: The ultimate wild salad plant
- Defending "ugly" fish
- Wild parsnip: It's like raiding a garden, but better
Looking back
- The "antique" value of prudence and the psychology of economics
- Where the money went
- Discovering our roots: How the 1920s and '30s shaped modern homesteading
The homestead pond
Notes from the Northwoods
- Our flexible, movable kitchen
- Eating out of your garden
- Homestead wine
- Build a homestead one-log hauler
- Rhubarb: A special plant
- Rise to a new height—the workshop mini-bench
- Grapes in the north
- Horseradish: It’s great with almost everything!
- The Manytracks solar oven
- Building and using a midwest solar food dryer
Homestead politics
- Welcome to Anathoth
- Food security is a real issue
- The "National Animal Identification System": A new threat to rural freedom?
- National Livestock Identification System (updates)
- The real impacts of the National Identification System
Self-reliance/Survival
- The Great Ice Storm of '98
- In Michigan’s northwoods, they’re always prepared
- How to purify water in an emergency
- Lost in the wilderness! Tips to help you emerge safely
- A simple hand-warming heater you can make yourself
Homestead simplicity
- Living deliberately: How to approach simplification
- Homestead security equals free-range chickens, a good dog, and Jerusalem artichokes
Homestead skills
The smithy
Homestead water
- How to get water from a drilled well when the power is off
- Conservation tips for everyone
- Hydraulic ram pump how-to
- A 12-volt "walking" water system
- Homestead water procurement
The woodlot
The homestead workshop
Your homestead business
- Selecting and starting your ideal home business
- Thinking about a homestead enterprise?
- Do you really want to go into business for yourself?
- Marketing your crafts
- Spousal support in the home craft business
- It takes time to establish a home business
- Your time is worth something: Pricing your products in a home craft business
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