Homestead Hustle

09/10/2020

Rabbits are a great urban meat source. For starters, they taste great! Our kids love them and the four of us get two meals from each one.

Consider raising meat rabbits on your homestead for an ideal source of high quality meat and protein without a expending too many resources.

07/10/2020

Dedicate a spot to your hobbies and projects, and then craft a built-in workbench to manage those creative jobs with ease.

06/10/2020

This traditional remedy is known for the health benefits it confers, including strengthening the immune system. https://www.motherearthnews.com/natural-foods/homemade-fire-cider-zm0z20onzbut

05/10/2020

People want to know how your farm works, but they don’t want to have to read a novel. Make signage concise.

The Importance of Signage   We just closed down our U-Pick sunflower field for the year. The petals have fallen and the beautiful flowers have gone to seed. I was blown away by the turn out and interest we experienced this first year. With little advertising investment and a low traffic location I ...

03/10/2020

This is a fortunate time for backyard gardeners and suburban homesteaders, as the literature dedicated to those folks in the suburbs who want to provide more for themselves has been on the rise.

Ziggy Liloia examines two poignant books, Paradise Lot and Gaia’s Garden that turn the idea of needing lots of space to grow ample food on its head.

02/10/2020

Soap making in the woods can be almost automatic. Hardwood ashes are some of the best producers of lye.

Add a bucket of rain water to hardwood ashes and left-over cooking fat to easily brew up enough soap to clean everybody and everything.

01/10/2020

For people who live in the city, or even in an apartment with a deck, a container garden can supply fresh vegetables.

Build a container garden for vegetable gardening using full sun perennials and root vegetables.

30/09/2020

The urban homestead is a special kind of city farm. This example from Pasadena, California, shows that urban self-sufficiency can be more than a dream.

The urban homestead is a special kind of city farm. This example from Pasadena, California shows that urban self-sufficiency can be more than a dream.

29/09/2020

In this episode, Charlotte French and Russell Mullin meet with Mary Miller and Helen Schnoes from the Douglas County Food Policy Council. They have worked tirelessly to create agricultural regulations in Lawrence Kansas that both encourage and protect urban farming, including keeping bees.

Mary Miller and Helen Schnoes, Douglas County Food Policy Council, Lawrence, KS discuss agricultural regulations encourage urban farming, keeping bees.

28/09/2020

Use these four example urban farming business plans and find inspiration to start a gardening business in your own back yard.

27/09/2020

Several times each month I receive letters, emails and phone calls from concerned chicken owners asking how they can keep their roosters quiet. More times than not, they are keeping chickens in urban areas. https://www.grit.com/animals/keeping-urban-roosters-quietly-and-responsibly

26/09/2020

Find out why cover cropping isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. These city farmers have adapted the practice to suit their unique challenges.