Fruits For The Far North
By Johanna Melchiore
Eighteen years ago when we moved from our Maine homestead to Canada where we established a new homestead in the wilderness of northern...
Are There Holes In Your Preparedness Plan?
By Jackie Clay-Atkinson
Providing for your family is a basic self-reliance tenet. I don’t look at myself as a “prepper” (a word referring to folks...
Little Ones On The Homestead
By Melissa SouzaEverywhere I go around the homestead I have four little ones following close behind me, two of which always have their boots...
The circle of homesteading
By Patrice Lewis
It all started one day about 20 years ago when I was cleaning the barn.
My task involved shoveling manure into a compost...


































