How to Deal with Frustration and Set-Back

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Do you ever get really down and discouraged with your homesteading progress? Photo credit Sometimes, despite our best-laid plans, we don’t meet our goals.  Drives me nuts! You might have noticed that I am goal-oriented, always have been.  I get depressed if I don’t have a goal I’m working towards, even if the goal is [...]

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The Homesteader’s Guide to Unemployment: 11 Steps to Take Control

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Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.  ~Orson Scott Card   Photo credit Being unemployed, underemployed or laid off is no joking matter. Millions of Americans are out of work today, many with few prospects for work without moving their family or retraining for another career. While we are blessed to [...]

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Botany and the Homestead

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Beauty and functionality:  It’s worth your time to identify what grows on YOUR homestead. Regardless of where you live, whether it be in a condo, suburbs or out in the country, it’s important to know and understand what grows naturally around you. Botany is the study of plants and I find it not only fascinating, but [...]

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Free Organic Food…Right Out Back!

How cool would it be to just take a stroll out back and pick your very own organic food that you didn’t plant….for free!? Yesterday, I had the pleasure of foraging some very healthy finds. Foraging is big on my radar screen right now, although in the past I must admit I didn’t hold foraging [...]

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Simply Living on Less: Eat What You Grow & Grow What You Eat

Eat what you grow and grow what you eat. Have you ever given much thought to this statement?  Or pondered it’s implications?  Let’s un-pack this a bit. Eat What You Grow When I think about eating what I grow, one of the first things that comes to my mind is eating foods that grow well [...]

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