You are very proud of your homestead and everything it has become over the years. You and your family have worked hard to make it a practical and friendly place to live. Although running a homestead takes a lot of work, you are always willing to spend time making it a warmer and more welcoming place to live. If you are looking to give your homestead some life and personality, ...
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3 Income Boosters to Make Your Farm Sing Again
While farming certainly is seasonal work, there is also a lot you can do with it in case you feel like having another challenge. It could mean the difference between a small and a medium-sized farm, after all, or you might be able to grow it into something niche on the side - either way, it will bring in a bit more money than it did before. You also have access to a ton of ...
4 Ways To Increase The Value Of Your Home When Getting Ready To Sell
Image Credit: Pixabay Are you getting ready to put your house on the market? Or maybe you’ve had it up for sale for a while now, but just aren’t getting as much interest as you’d hoped. Whilst there are a lot of reasons this could be happening, such as the market not being on your side, the price being too high, or being in a very remote location, there are also a lot ...
Trendy Ways to Turn Your Agricultural Passion Into a Business
The agricultural industry is experiencing somewhat of a renaissance thanks to people wanting to eat healthier through organic foods and fresh ingredients. However, agriculture is far more than just planting vegetables and fruits and eating fresh. There are plenty of emerging trends that’ll help you turn a passion for farming into a unique little agricultural business with a lot ...
Choosing The Best Vehicle For Your Homestead
Running a homestead is extremely rewarding on a number of levels. When you homestead you know you’re enjoying the very best quality home grown food free of all the chemicals, antibiotics and other adulterants increasingly creeping onto the world’s dinner plates. You also know that you’re doing your part in working towards a more sustainable and ecologically sound future. We ...
Three Emerging Trends For Small Agribusiness To Jump On Now
If there's one word which always applies to the worlds of agriculture and homesteading, it's flexibility. Learning to adapt to all the curve ball thrown at you - from adverse weather conditions to an income which fluctuates drastically - means that staying agile in your thinking is a critical skill. It can make all the difference between staying afloat or sinking without a ...
Your First Steps Towards Running A Small Farm
If you are thinking about running a small farm at your place of residence, now is an exciting time to do so. Homesteading is on the rise in popularity, and making a business out of a homestead is a natural progression for a person desiring to live off their land. In this post, we are going to hopefully make that part of the procedure a little easier, by focusing in particular ...
Making Life a Little Easier for Yourself When Homesteading
Homesteading is both a lifestyle and an attitude. It revolves around the idea of self-sufficiency and producing things yourself rather than purchasing them from stores and providers who mass produce or mass sourced products and consumer goods. Photo Source When you homestead, you look at something and figure out how you can create it yourself. Rather than buying a loaf ...
Give Your Homestead Some Life And Personality
Whether you’ve just moved into a new house or you’re thinking of improving your current one, it can be hard to spruce up a big homestead. The key is to make sure it reflects the taste of you and your family members. It needs to feel like a comfortable and inviting space. Here’s how to give your homestead some life and personality. PImage by shadowfirearts on Pixabay Do ...
Is Homesteading the Right Choice for You?
Image Credit Homesteading is something that’s grown in massive popularity over recent years, and understandably so - it’s certainly one of the more natural ways for humans to live, and there’s always going to be something appealing about the ability to live off the grid surrounded by beautiful nature, and completely self sufficient when it comes to things like growing your ...
10 Ways to Spruce Up the Homestead This Spring
Whether you are buying a new home this year or you simply want to add some life into your current homestead space, there are always some great ideas you can use to get the most out of every nook and cranny of the home. Now that spring is on its way we can shed all the gloom and dirt from the rains and harsh weather we've had, am i right? Let's start looking at some fun ways ...
How to Make a Homestead Management Binder
We’ve been talking about making homesteading goals now since the beginning of the year, and I’m willing to bet you have a whole lot of paper piled around with homesteading notes, amiright? Now you need something to arrange them all in a way that will make sense. That something is a homestead management binder! If you've been following along in the past few weeks, you’ve ...