If you want to grow your own cooking oil, in the US there’s really not anything better for this than…

Wildflowers are great, but not all wild flowers are great for every location. While planting wildflowers can help pollinators and…

Gardeners often are great at growing plants, but rarely do you see them also growing mushrooms on their homesteads. Mushrooms…

Knowing how many plants to put in your garden each year can feel like a wild guess. It’s not that…

Many people first start gardening with the dream of self sufficient living in mind. Their early homestead starts will planning…

Mint is not actually a single plant but instead around 25 known species of plant in the Lamiaceae family. While…

Chickens are a great addition to a homestead for many reasons. Primarily people think of chickens as a source of…

Pallet wood makes for wonderfully cheap wood for a lot of projects, but a lot of people who are first…

Having fresh eggs is wonderful, but figuring out how many chickens you need to have eggs all the time can…

Free range chickens have the run of a property. When you let your chickens free range they simply are not…