Winter Sowing: An easy, budget-friendly method to start seeds.
How to winter sow: an easy and inexpensive way to start seedlings outside in winter with very little effort from the gardener.
How to check if your older seeds are still good.
A simple method to check if your older seeds are alive and worth planting
Modern Homesteading - Why The Homestead Project?
What homesteading means has evolved significantly over the years. In the mid 1800’s homesteading referred to those invoking The...
We'll be enjoying these delicious and nutritious pancakes on Pancake Tuesday.
We love a good pancake. I'm personally partial to a pancake with a crispy brown edge that I refer to as a "butter line" which is created...
Plant some Leafy Greens
It’s that time of year … time to plan for planting some leafy greens in your garden this year.
Homestead planning for 2017
A New Year kick-off with a look back to last year and a plan for 2017.
Makeshift barrier as a fence for ducks
Our small flock of Ancona ducks had recently started wondering a bit further than we were comfortable with, and we found ourselves...
How to make Easy Homemade Yogurt
When your raw milk is getting older the easiest way to preserve it is to make homemade yogurt (yoghurt?). The method we use takes no...
First Post
Homesteading "for the rest of us"? We are a family with full time jobs and busy lives trying to live as sustainably as we can (using old...
Bee swarm (or mating flight?)
Quick background: Two weeks ago, having found queen cells, we split our hive and moved the existing queen into a new one. What we...
