Not sure how to get started canning food? Canning food can be intimidating if you’ve never tried it. But following some simple canning instructions, you can preserve your spring harvest for long-term storage. Get your free printable guide and learn the basics of canning food for long shelf storage. What equipment and tools do you […]
6 Peculiar Ways we save hundreds on the homestead, EVERY month!
As a lifeschool family living off of a single income, we love to find new ways to save more and more cash each month. In this post, I share how we manage to save HUNDREDS of dollars every month! Some are more peculiar than others!
Are You a Homesteader?
“Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of foodstuffs, and it may or may not also involve the small-scale production of textiles, clothing, and craft work for the household use. Homesteading is not defined by where someone lives, such as the city or the country, but by the […]
Commercially Grown Food: Is it killing us?
Choosing to grow our own food has become more important than ever due to what commercial foods are causing for our health.
Getting your “Fix”: Why we promote Hunting with the kiddos
This is Kindall {12 years old} and her VERY First Buck in the Hunting season of 2014. Sounds pretty controversial, doesn’t it? What if I were to tell you the actual age Kindall was given the first opportunity to hunt and kill her first deer? Try 9 years old. Kindall gave us all a run […]
What does Sustainable Homesteading look like?
What does it mean to live a life more sustainably in the context of homesteading? I believe the answer changes and shifts, evolves like we do as human beings and varies for each one of us depending on life circumstance and resources available.
