How Long Are Cows Pregnant? A Complete Guide for Farmers and Animal Owners
If you’re raising cattle, breeding for milk, beef, or even showing livestock, understanding how long cows are pregnant is essential. Whether you’re...
Best Automatic Chicken Coop Door Opener: Stress-Free Flock Keeping
Raising chickens can be one of the most rewarding and grounding parts of a self-sufficient life. The soft clucking at sunrise, the steady rhythm of...
What Do Goats Eat?
If you’re new to raising goats or considering adding them to your homestead, one of the first questions you’ll ask is: what do goats eat? While...
8 Cheap Ways to Cool Off Your House This Summer
When summer hits full force, even the best-built homesteads can feel like they’re baking from the inside out. Sure, air conditioning helps, but not...
Ingenious Uses of Tallow You Never Thought Of (Except Eating!)
If you’ve got a jar of tallow sitting in the pantry, chances are you’re saving it for cooking. But did you know that this old-school fat is good for...
Your Chicken Coop Could Be a Death Trap
You think your chickens are safe. You built the coop yourself, added straw, maybe even a solar door. But what if that structure—your pride and...
The Best Homemade Chicken Coop Deodorizer
Introduction to Odor Control Raising backyard chickens is incredibly rewarding—farm-fresh eggs, compostable manure, and a sustainable lifestyle all...
DIY Tools You Can Make from Bark, Rocks and Trees
When the grid fails and supplies run dry, you won’t have fancy tools waiting on a shelf. Out here, it’s bark, rocks, and trees or nothing. Your...
Better Than a Root Cellar
Before electricity and grocery stores, families relied on these simple, cool earth shelters to keep their garden harvests and farm produce fresh...
Why You Should Pour Tallow Over Cornmeal
If you’ve never poured hot tallow over cornmeal, you’re missing out on one of the oldest, most underrated tricks in the homesteader’s playbook....
How To Make Natural Glue from Backyard Plants
Most folks don’t realize it, but some of the stickiest, most reliable glues don’t come from a store-bought bottle. They come from right outside your...
DIY Edible Insect Farm
Of all the ways you can make your homestead more self-reliant, few are as overlooked — or as surprisingly practical — as starting an insect farm. A...
The Natural Toothpaste That Might Be Growing in Your Backyard
Take a look at most toothpaste labels and you’ll find ingredients like triclosan, artificial dyes, and foaming agents — chemicals linked to gum...
This Is Making Your Chickens Sick
You might not even realize it, but some of the most common things around your homestead could be quietly putting your entire flock at risk. A small...
Why Growing Bees Is Easier Than You Think
What if I told you that one of the most powerful allies in your garden doesn’t come from a seed packet, but has wings? 🐝 Most people assume...
15+ Homesteading Projects You Can Downsize for Simplicity
Most people think bigger is better when it comes to DIY: bigger sheds, bigger gardens, more tools, more plans. But that’s not how it used to be... A...
The Soap That Might Be Growing In Your Backyard
Most people see a weed. They yank it out and toss it on the compost pile without a second thought. But a few generations ago, this weed was worth...
DIY “Endless Food Machines”
More and more stories keep showing up on the Internet cautioning about coming food shortages, higher prices and empty shelves. There are numerous...
How Does a Faraday Cage Work?
In today’s world, technology is everywhere. From the devices we use daily to the infrastructure that powers our homes, we rely heavily on electronic...
10 Common Household Items You’ve Been Using Wrong
Many of us are quick to throw things away. That’s a good thing because clutter is unsightly and an obsession with keeping everything leads to...
Better Than Concrete: DIY Cob Projects You Should Do Today
Cob building material is a mix of clay, sand, and straw, forming a sculptable mortar that dries rock-hard. Unlike concrete, it requires no permits,...
I Fed Stinging Nettles to My Chickens, and This Happened
Stinging nettles are everywhere in your garden, and I'm not gonna lie; we often overlook them and have them discarded. No need to do this anymore!...
Automatic Chicken Feeder That Needs No Electricity: How Do You Make It?
Chickens don’t care if you’re sick, busy or on vacation. They demand food daily. Store-bought automatic feeders? Pricey, power-hungry, and prone to...
Homemade Chicken Feed Recipes
An old joke when someone referred to something cheap was “That’s chicken feed.” Unfortunately, like everything else these days, even chicken feed...
Greenhouse Mistakes I Learned from Building My Own
I’ve built 3 greenhouses. And like so many things we do, each one was progressively bigger. Along the way I learned some hard lessons. Some were...
15+ One-Hour Projects You Need to Get Done By Summer
Clock’s ticking. You’ve got a few sunrises ‘til summer… That list of “maybe someday” projects? They're staring you down like a stubborn goat. Time...
How to Grow an Endless Supply of Food in Thin Air
A lot of people are aware of aeroponics and when you first hear how it works it would be no surprise if it left you scratching your head. Aeroponics...
DIY Potato Growing Box
It’s easy to plant potatoes in the ground but creating an above-ground structure can give you a higher yield in a relatively small space. This is a...
Ingenious Ways I Use Clay Pots in My Homestead
Clay pots are fired pots typically referred to as terra cotta. People often use clay pots for plants, from flowers to vegetables to herbs. They come...
The Best DIY Water Filters
There are many variations on water filters you can buy, but in an emergency, you can improvise your own. This is especially important during a power...
DIY Harmless Rat Trap (With Step-by-Step Pictures)
There is actually a way to make a harmless rat trap for catch-and-release. The idea is to capture the mice or rats alive and then take them to a...
Ingenious Uses for Steel Wool
Right now your steel wool is probably gathering dust, right? You might have bought it for a project ages ago, or maybe it just appeared there like a...
