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Self Sufficiency & Homesteading
Self Sufficiency & Homesteading is where the journey of true independence begins.
This category brings together everything you need to raise animals, grow your own food, and create a resilient off-grid homestead. From starting a backyard flock and milking your first cow or goat, to building garden beds, preserving the harvest, and setting up off-grid systems – these are the foundational skills that turn a piece of land into a thriving, self-reliant home.
Here you’ll find honest, experience-based guides on gardening (survival gardening, no-till, permaculture, seed saving), animal husbandry (dairy goats, pigs, chickens), food preservation, off-grid living setups, and the mindset shifts that make homesteading sustainable in the long-term.
Whether you have a quarter-acre suburban plot or 50 acres in the country, every article and project here is written for real people who want to produce more, consume less, and live closer to the land.
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Mulberries on the homestead and in the kitchen
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I don’t think there’s anything that gives a feeling of abundance more than fruit trees. To watch the tree first awaken in early spring, the incomparable colour of soft green buds, and then the fragile pastel flowers bursting into life, covering the tree in the archetypal colours of springtime. We moved onto this rental property in winter, when the trees stood bare and skeleton-like in the frosted landscape. We had no idea of what would happen to these trees in…
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How to sterilise jars and milk buckets without chemicals
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Raw milk is an important food to my family, so much so that we don’t mind buying all of our goats’ feed in while living in suburban sized blocks with no grazing land. To make the most of this precious milk, and to make sure that there’s no chance of us getting sick, I am careful about having a milking routine that minimises the chances of the milk getting contaminated. How to sterilise jars and milk buckets without chemicals: oven…
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