I’m kind of a cheapskate. At least that’s what my family tells me. The fact is, I don’t like to buy stuff for the sake of buying stuff. I’d rather use that money to build infrastructure around the home (like making it more energy efficient), or to pay off the mortgage way ahead of schedule. [...]
In the comments sections of my last post Making More Lip Balm, a reader asked if I would share which products I use and where I get them. Why, I’d love to! Before I begin, I’d like to recommend you watch the video of The Story of Stuff about Cosmetics. It was a real eye [...]
I have been wanting a spinning wheel for several years now, ever since I learned how to spin yarn on a drop spindle. I took one lesson here at the end of summer from a local spinner at her yarn shop, and I tried out a few wheels at the Sedalia Fiber Festival last year. [...]
For the past year we have been blessed with the presence of an internationally know author and presenter of all things honeybees in our little mountain community of Floyd. I am drawn to Gunther Hauk’s work with the honeybees, not only as a fellow beekeeper, but because I want to “keep” bees in a way [...]
What I DIDN’T know is that Agricola (sort of like an analog version of Farmville) is really – no, REALLY – complicated at first!
Our friend Tommy came over yesterday and used the grain mill to grind up some barley for his home-brew. I took the opportunity of having two free hands while the grinder / mill was in use to take some quick video for anyone who might be interested in getting one.
Frozen pipes got you down? …down under the house in a cold, damp, spider-filled crawlspace, that is. Enter the Thermo Cube!
I want one of these solar food dehydrators that hang from a tree branch, hook, or wherever you want to put them – but there’s no way in hell I’m going to pay nearly sixty bucks for one. They would be easy to make, and I have some extra mosquito netting in the barn, but [...]
A gigantic list of book reviews about homesteading, self-sufficiency, sustainability, the back to the land movement, survivalism, preparedness, organic gardening and more.
You really can be better off by turning things off. That’s the premise of Better Off, a book by Eric Brende, which chronicles his 18-month journey of self-discovery in an Amish-like settlement somewhere in middle-America.
We believe that humankind has lost some important things in the march toward progress. That is not to say progress and simplicity are mutually exclusive. We believe we can have both, and this site catalogs our journey as we try to do exactly that.
The Transplants
Missy & Everett
TreeStone Farm
Tommy
The Old-Timers
Coming Soon
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The Urban Homesteaders
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The Minimalists
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