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greeneggsandgoats

I'm a homeschooling homesteader living on 3 acres of beautiful land just north of Birmingham, Alabama. I'm raising children, goats, a Jersey cow, and lots of chickens, ducks and guineas. It's a busy life, but I wouldn't trade it for the world!

Abigail Zieger

Abigail is an aspiring homesteader, homeschooler, music-maker, and birth doula. She lives with her husband and soon-to-be-three children on her acre-and a half homestead in scenic Pennsylvania. You can visit her blog about living the homegrown life (and seeking contentment while doing it) at http://www.theyrenotourgoats.com

Correne Omland

Correne Omland is a trained Traditional Western Herbalist and Homesteader based out of Beaverton, Ontario, Canada. Along with her husband and son, they are working towards self sufficiency both in the garden and in the medicine cabinet. Correne teachers her students and clients that health starts from the ground up, with both good food and natural medicines.

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I'm a homesteading, homeschooling mother of three who raises a lot of our food on our homestead. We grow a huge organic garden and raise goats, pigs, chickens, ducks and an incredibly cute puppy. I make artisan cheese and am a contributor to Grow Northwest Magazine. I teach and inspire earth-conscious people to live healthy, self-reliant, sustainable lives by teaching online homesteading, cheesemaking, and fermentation courses.

Dani Welton

The Arizona Desert is where we chose to build a homestead to support our family. Overcoming the desolate land is the challenge. Providing wholesome, nourishing foods for my family is my passion, and milking goats and feeding chickens... well that's the fun part!

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Sally Olson

Sally Olson is a wife, mother, writer, blogger, and homestead gardener. She teaches you how to grow a nourishing life at home. For more easy-to-follow garden tips and inspirationg to grow our nourishing life, follow Sally at http://www.gardenvalleyhomestead.com and on Pinterest, pinterest.com/GVHomestead/

Bonnie V

Bonnie of The Not so Modern Housewife was raised in a small farming village in central Ohio where she was active in 4-H and FFA. She grew up surrounded by a large family who taught her how to can, garden and cook from scratch. Now living in Florida and raising fearless kids, Bonnie is running the family farm where they raise chickens, ducks, goats, pigs and horses. Bonnie also enjoys teaching her kids how to live off of the land, appreciate God’s creation, and live a simpler life. Her blog, The Not So Modern Housewife, features many of her recipes as well as tips for living green and homesteading. Bonnie can also be found on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest.

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Arwen Greer

I am a mother, a wife, an herbalist, homeopath, folk healer, wise woman, ex-nun and freelance writer (and only ONE of those jobs actually pays...) My lifetime passion is helping others achieve vitality and balance through self-sufficiency and holistic awareness.

The Rural Economist

Gregg, The Rural Economist, lives in northern Alabama. He is a proud and loving husband and father of six children. It is the desire of The Rural Economist to help and encourage people on their journey to being more self sustainable. It does not matter if your goal is to be able to do everything yourself or if you just want to develop some new skills, we will help you all we can.

Taylor Fox

In 2013 Taylor left her hometown of Vancouver, BC for Gabriola Island where she and her partner purchased a 1/2 acre property and began to learn more about homesteading and living a less complicated life. She started her blog Fox on an Island as a way to document their adventures and share their successes and failures as they move forward.

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Anni

I'm Anni and I love living in the wide open spaces of Kansas with my husband and our cattle, chickens, guineas, cats, dogs and horses. We love the Lord and all that he has given us. I love to help people learn how to garden and grow their own food. And did I say organic gardening? Don't understand using chemicals on my food so I never have.I am passionate about so many things so my blog is to share tips, hints, helps and my loves of living in the country!

Brandy Alford

I am pleased to meet you! I am Brandy affectionately known as Rzashida. My first plant was an avocado tree that I grew from seed at age 4. Over 30 years later, I continued on my gardening journey. Being a garden enthusiast is a major part of my life. The challenge of growing plants that are exotic to my region, or have some type of funky purpose is what keeps me going. The beauty of nature delights me and keeps me flabbergasted. God has blessed me with growing hands, and that's what I do. I love gardening and appreciate that the possibilities are limitless.

Mindy Young

I'm a farmer and mother. I have a passion for being self-sufficient and being healthy and well. I want to empower others to live the life they love and to follow their dreams for success.

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Kris M.

Kris has moved her little family back to the mountain farm where she was born and raised. Her blog, Growing Wild Roots, is about sustainable family living, market gardening, and simple country life. Kris loves her family, Jesus, summer days, good books, tea, long talks and laughter.

One Grace Filled Life

I’m a free spirited home grown Georgia peach. G.R.I.T.S is not just an item on a big southern breakfast menu, it is a way of life for me! I was raised in the city, but always longed for greener pastures and fresh mountain air. So, that’s where God led me! I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with my handsome husband and our critters on our farm, Grace Haven. I am constantly inspired by and in awe of the beauty that surrounds me, so you will rarely find me without a camera. After a long day in the garden or around the farm, I am at my happiest sitting on the front porch with my hubby, dirt under my nails and a dog by my side, watching our chickens scratch and peck in the front yard, and listening to our horses munch away at grass in the pasture. This makes my heart so full! Welcome to our little peace of heaven!

Making Shift

Karen Beaty has been increasingly making shift since about 2003 when she scavenged her first item out of the trash. Years of mental shift preceded that moment. She now strives to obtain more and more of what her family needs through reuse, recycling, thrifting, and self-production. In addition to practical homemaking and self-sufficiency, she is interested in creating community. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, three children, several pets, a flock of poultry, and a wonderful community of friends, family, and neighbors.

Alicia Zeltwanger

A true homesteader at heart, Alicia is on a journey to make life as healthy as possible for her family. As a mom to three silly kids, wife to a super awesome man and keeper of a really dopey dog, her days are never dull. She'd love nothing more than to share her triumphs and failures in gardening and healthy, simple living. You can find her writing at Walking Softly Upon the Earth.

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Opportunity Farm

Matthew, Michelle and five Farran children live at Opportunity Farm on the border between Victoria and New South Wales in the Snowy Mountains Region of Australia. On their 29 acre farm and 300 acre bush property they have self-shedding sheep, a variety of goats, some ponies, lots of chickens, some pigs, guinea pigs, fish and dogs. They attempt to grow much of their own food and are developing a business to share their knowledge of teaching, practical skills, homesteading and working with special needs students with others.

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Kelly

I'm Kelly. Mama to a sweet, spirited toddler and married to my best friend. Writer, crafter, mushroom hunter, country winemaker, cook. I'm setting out on a quest for self-sufficiency in gorgeous, rainy Oregon.

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Sandrine Ferwerda

Sandrine Ferwerda was born in Belgium, where she grew up between horses, dogs and assorted poultry. After getting a degree in sociology, she worked as a personal assistant in Amsterdam when she and her husband decided to pack their things and move to rural Spain. With the help of volunteers, they’re turning their olive & almond farm in the middle of nowhere into a self-sustainable permaculture paradise. When she’s not writing, Sandrine likes to watch plants grow, talk to her chickens and dream about her own herd of alpaca’s.

Michelle Farmer

Hi I'm Michelle Farmer, a retired commercial cricket farmer, our family raised crickets for over 20 years and sold them to pet shops for lizard food and some bait shops. Now that we are retired we buy and sell on eBay. I started a blog about Homesteading for women. I wanted to get back to my roots and live a simpler life while adding more chickens to our farm and learning to do things like my Grandmother used to back in the good old days. Join me in my adventures on my blog. www.homesteadingforwomen.com

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Lindsey

I am a mother to two beautiful boys, a wife to an amazing man and a lover of the outdoors. On our little homestead we are taking small steps to living a more natural and sustainable life. Join us on our journey to self-sufficiency as we share tips and tricks to living simply in a busy world.

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Homestead Alive

Bonnie is a wife and partner of 14 years to her adoring husband Kyle and mother of their two children. She is a newly minted homesteader but prepping is in her DNA. Her passion is natural cosmetic products, which she makes from her home 'lab' - When she isn't in the lab you can find her in the kitchen with her pressure canner and cooking meals from scratch... For her 3 dogs.

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Erin Turner

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Kimberlee Bastien

We’ve never milked a cow, mucked out a barn or even preserved a single food… We are a family of wannabe farmers on a mission to learn 52 homesteading skills in one year.

I am a thirty five year old mother of two. My boyfriend and I decided that the best way to raise children was on a homestead...and off we went. We started out with a wooded lot and are learning the joys of off grid living as we go. I am currently working full time as a nurse while we shift our life over to sustainability.

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Kellie Phelan

Originally a country girl, now living in the city (Seattle!), Kellie is passionate about converting her lawn into an edible landscape. As a recent beginner gardener, Kellie was both amazed and frustrated by all of the different gardening resources out there. Kellie's goal with Backyard Roots is to capture all of that gardening know-how in one place and make growing food accessible to everyone. So dig in and start growing!

Jenn Dana

We are a family striving to live a simple life. We love hunting, DIY projects, growing produce, and enjoying our lives on the farm.

Dianne Hadorn

Hi, I'm Dianne. I live with my husband on 1.5 acres in Charleston, TN. The name of my blog is Hidden Springs Homestead. I grew up on a small homestead of 5 acres, married a city guy and couldn't get away from the farm quick enough! Only to have, after a few years, a deep inside desire to go back to the farm. As I have gotten older and wiser I have realized that homesteading was the best thing ever. My parents and grandparents did know best! We've been married for 25 years and gone through some really hard times. Job losses, health issues and the such. October 2015, we made the decision to get away from being so dependent on the "social norm" and began growing our own food, canning and preserving, and working on becoming more self-sufficient. We have a plan in place to raise goats for milk, chickens for meat and eggs and the such, but other things have to take place first. That's how Hidden Springs Homestead came about was the "other stuff". I realized through my horrible failures and not having deep pockets this was going to be slow journey, but well worth the wait. If I can share my failures or some small tip that will help others to achieve their dream, then we both win and that makes me happy.

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Lee

Lee is a writer and blogger spreading the word about self-sufficiency one post at a time through her blog, www.homesteadology.com.

Julie Sczerbinski

Julie Sczerbinski is a gardener, beekeeper and organic life coach living in the suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina. She's the founder of Earth & Honey (www.earthandhoney.co) whose mission is to teach you to live more sustainably, starting with your food supply.

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Rachel Maxwell Carpenter

homesteading | hand-making | healthy living I'm a passionate homesteader, gardener, certified yoga instructor, and herbalist-in-training that loves sharing my expertise in healthy living with others. I also create herbal skincare, beauty, + men's products at ORIGINAL ORGANICS herbals: www.originalorganicsherbals.com

Lauren Sorgaard

Silver Maple Farms is a hobby farm located in beautiful East Central Minnesota. We take pride in raising our animals with the best possible care while working to improve and produce the best we can of each of our breeds. We specialize in raising rare heritage breed rabbits.

Rebekah Baker

Hi, everybody!!! It’s me just talking about how to eat and live healthy. My goal is to help you in your journey to better health. It has always been a hobby of mine to discover better ways to live that is closer to nature and how God intended it . It’s so exciting to find something that will help my husband and kids not only feel better but will boost their immune system as well. I enjoy the challenge of seeing how much our family can save. We have learned to make many household cleaners and detergents that would otherwise overtax our budget if we had to buy them. These household items can be made inexpensively as well as allergen-friendly. This last year, I also began gardening. I have found that gardening is a wonderful way to relief stress. It seems crazy that having your hands in dirt would help anyone relax but it really works. My mission is to present alternative ideas to encourage a healthier you.

Emily Swezey

Emily shares her goofy, detail oriented approach to leading a life that's more self-reliant, in touch with the natural world and fulfilling on her website Life From Scratch.

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I'm a cow milking, chicken chasing, wood stove cooking, garden growing mama to triplets. We live on a ranch in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota. Our journey to self-sufficiency is full of joy and trials. We live simply without conveniences like air conditioning, dishwasher, and microwave. Much of our food comes from our land or is bartered for. In the winter we use a wood cook stove for both cooking and heat. It's a hard life, but I wouldn't change it for the world.

Cathy Rehmeyer

Tana Mason

HI, My name is Tana, and I am from Moore, Oklahoma. Throughout most of my life I have lived in the City of Moore, but in my late 30’s that changed and decided to make a transition from a city girl to a country girl.

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I am a homebody,new to homeschooling, gardening, horseback-riding, goat milking, soap making, chicken whispering kinda girl, living on our family homestead with my detail oriented, electric fence testing, Mr. fix-it, partner in crime Mark and our 2 wild, loud, adorable and sweet kiddos.

Tina Layne

High Fantasy Homestead

We are a trio of do-it-yourselfers trying to carve out a self-sufficient homestead from a former junkyard!

Cheryl Cook

I'm a self-taught gardener and cook, with an interest in sustainability and frugal living. I live on an island with my husband and two children, in a home we built ourselves.

Holly

I was born and raised on a dairy farm in southwest Wisconsin until I was 8 years old. I always had a strong connection with the environment and wanted to live off the land. At college, I met my future husband and together we have learned self-sufficiency skills and now have a country home, barn, and 17 acres where we can expand what we know and live more independently. Together we are passing down our knowledge to our 5 year old son who tags along with us in all of our adventures. Chickens, honeybees, a large organic garden (50 x 100 ft.), 41 fruit trees, and 53 fruit bushes complete our homestead and keep us busy. We are constantly adding on to our homestead and learning more ways to live self sufficiently.

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Louise Houghton

I am married to Jon. We live in Ceredigion in mid-Wales and have two boys nearly 9 and nearly 10. I just started to grow our own veg in May of this year. It has gone well some times and there have been failures but I am learning ALL the time and loving it, too. Check out my ramblings on my blog to see what I get up to in and out of my Poly House.

Laura Katzensteiner

Hi, my name is Laura. I love making things from scratch, whether that is food, beauty products, crafts or even cleaning products. Not only is it incredibly satisfying, it also saves money and teaches valuable skills. And the fact that I live in an apartment is definitely not going to stop me from being on this journey. So why should it stop you? I believe, it is never too early/late to take back control of the products you put in your body!

Julia

Julia is a Christian who blogs at Reform Stead about anything homesteading. Topics like taking care of chickens, milking goats, growing a garden or cooking a healthy meal, are some of her favorites and can be found on her blog.

Becca Hurst

We are two sisters from Michigan who are aspiring homesteaders on a journey to live life simply. We aim to share our love for healthy living, nourishing recipes, homesteading, and caring for our families!

Bexz Walker

A Kentish family living the homesteading lifestyle, in the middle of a town. Self sufficient as much as they can be & loving every minute of it.

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Michael Cooley

Michael obtained his PDC via Geoff Lawton, PRI, in 2013 , and had been a student of Permaculture Design independently for a number of years prior to obtaining the PDC. His interest in Permaculture came through an interest in sustainable food production and a desire for nutrient rich foods. He is particularly interested in the value of food forests, perennial food production, and medicinal plants and herbs. Michael's experience as a licensed Financial Advisor and prior career in hospital administration and Human Resources have given him unique perspectives on the economics of Permaculture Design and the management of inputs. Michael is presently creating a demonstration site on acreage in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (temperate climate). He is also looking to work in Aid work situations worldwide to further his experience in varied climates. His ultimate goal is to teach the PDC at the collegiate level and in developing countries where adequate nutrition is not readily available. He is also functioning as a permaculture design consultant and speaker.

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Susan Sink

I am a poet and writer living on 80 acres in Central Minnesota. My husband and I and the two other families who live here have turned this old hog farm into a combination of gardens, furniture making shop, and restored prairie and wetlands. It is a habitat for humans, chickens, a dog, a pair of sand hill cranes, and birds, bees, Monarch butterflies and other insects too numerous to count.

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Anja Koch

For as long as I can think I have been a plant enthusiast and I have been growing plants since I was a teenager. After finishing school I began a two-year apprenticeship as a landscape gardener in Germany. I was working for a large landscaping company for two years learning the trade as well as going to a school. During this time we were laying out and planting gardens for people. This taught me the fundamental basics of garden design, landscaping and gave me a practical and broad knowledge base of garden plants. My apprenticeship was followed by a professional program in Landscape Design in Germany and involved a thesis on Robinsonian Gardens in Ireland. For this I had to travel to Ireland to study the historical 'Wild Robinsonian Gardens'...and of course, we decided to move to Ireland after I finished with my professional program. In 1998 we moved to the South-West of Ireland and started a garden center. Running a garden center for over 19 years and dealing with amateur gardeners on a daily basis has taught me a lot about the problems that people have with growing plants and gardening. In 2013, I did a Permaculture design course and certificate with Geoff Lawton, one of the best and most impressive permaculture teachers around. This was truly an eye-opening experience that I can only recommend for anybody. Do it and it will change your life! We are since redesigning and integrating permaculture design principles into the garden. We also started to develop a small market garden operation as a sideline to our garden center. Producing healthy and tasty vegetables is our new focus.

Quiet Owl Farm

Rosie is working towards her goal of having a sustainable family farm and homestead. In her blog, Quiet Owl Farm (quietowlfarm.wordpress.com), you can follow her journey as she tries her darndest to transition from student-debt-ridden renter to small farm-owning homesteader.

Robbi Sullivan

Raising children, chickens, and an organic garden in Southern Illinois.

Autumn

I'm a young gal who passionately pursues a healthier life. Due to my battle with chronic Lyme disease, I've turned to simple cottage living where we raise and preserve most of our food, practice traditional skills and make time for what matters most.

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Sarah Sailer

An Italian mama of four, living the self-sufficient life on 1/5 acre in a historic Colorado neighborhoood. Recently named Mother Earth News' Homesteaders of the year, the Sailers do all they can to live simply and make the most of their small but creative space.

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Lacey Hoyer

My husband and I are the proud owners of 40 beautiful acres on the north coast of Oregon. We are working hard to reestablish it as a living, breathing farm; complete with a healthy and bio-diverse woodland, large organic gardens and a root cellar full of our own preserved foods – fruits, vegetables and meat – and to teach our daughters how to grow, harvest and preserve those things as well. We're building a new house and look forward to spending the rest of our lives there. We want to bring new life to the fields, to the orchard, to the outbuildings, and to our own selves. A life with mud on our boots, dirt under our fingernails, meat chickens, ducks, goats, pigs and cows roaming fertile fields and good food in our bellies. A life spent together, doing things that really matter, on forty acres of pure beautiful.

Kristina Dahlin

I grow 800 square feet of organic veggies in the desert year round. I raise rabbits, chickens and goats in my backyard. I can, dehydrate and freeze my veggies. I do this all on a 6500 sq ft lot in the city, in the desert of Phoenix Arizona. I have been doing all of this and teaching it for over 30 years, but I am very new to blogging.

Jacqueline Lipsky

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Jenna Rettig

We are two sisters, whose families have come together because we want be closer to nature and become more self sufficient in every area of our lives. Our journey has just begun! Country living has been a breathe of fresh air for all of us. The kids seem to be enjoying their adventures too! We are inspired to try new things and continue to step out into the unexpected. We hope you to join us on this journey! On The Hesitant Homesteader blog you can follow us as we succeed, and fail, at all our new-to-us farm en devours.

Monique Volkers

For a long time I had a passion for Portugal and for living in the countryside. But I was manager at the Dutch Refugee Council in Holland, which I also did with commitment and involvement. However, in 2010 I moved from Wageningen in the Netherlands to our farm Terra do milho in the Algarve. My desire was, and is, to build up a sustainable life, whilst my partner Tom still stayed part-time in Holland running his comedy-business. Lots of things were developed since then and many of those things I had to learn from scratch. Changing 4 ha overgrown wild land into a fruit orchard and vegetable garden was a challenge. After the land was accessabel we bought our first goats Bianca and Kimberly. Soon after that chickens were added. Meanwhile we were building our own house and all the utilities needed, like fresh drinking water. Now we are coming into a new phase: sharing our experience and knowledge, and selling our products and skills. On our website and our social media you can read and see a lot of us. Hopefully we will meet you there.

Judy Laquidara

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Beth

30ish, single mom beginning a homesteading lifestyle. I have a small farm with a few animals, an organic garden, and have begun food preservation. This is all new to me, and I am blogging about my experiences, triumphs and a few failures here and there!

Megan Richardson