Homestead Living and Livestock
Practical skills for modern homesteading, sustainable agriculture, and self-sufficient urban or country living.
Fun Chicken Names for Your Homestead Flock
By David Woods, Log Cabin Hub
If you’re looking for a group of names for the flock of chickens on your homestead, we’ve pulled together some egg-cellent choices for you!
Pasture-Raised Turkeys
By Shelby DeVore, Farminence
Can you raise turkeys on pasture? What do they eat? How much supplements do they require? How much space do they need?
Salatin Family Models Non-Industrial Farming
Andrew Perkins, Mother Earth News Fair Director
Salatin Family turns abused farm land into non-industrial food production oasis while unknowingly creating a future Mother Earth News Fair location!
Senior Homesteading at High Elevation
By Bruce McElmurray
How seniors find tasks more difficult in the mountains and make adjustments to compensate for elevation and weather.
The Art of Selling Homestead Products
By Emmet Van Driesche
Make sure you’re earning back the value of your products with solid sales and display strategies, no matter what you’re selling.
A Useful Can on the Farm
Reader Letters
Read up on readers’ tips for reusing coffee cans, DIY car lumber rack, fabric scraps to quilts, watering with snow, and more.
Dear Mother: Mother’s Eco-Village Beginning
By Readers
Read letters from longtime readers, learn about Mother’s history, and examples of readers going against the grain.
Off-Grid and Free: Siting a House and Elements of Our New Homestead
By Ron Melchiore
We have a road in and now it's time to position the house along with all the other elements like orchard, garden, well etc.
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