How to
A how to guide
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One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts – An Evolution From Industrial To Regenerative Farming
When White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia, made the transition from an industrialized agricultural facility to a regenerative farm, the…
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Homestead Sausage
I recently was interrogated by a reader about sausage and mushrooms we grow on our homestead. I thought they were…
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Maximizing Yield with Vertical Spaces
According to the United Nations, the amount of arable land per person has decreased from about one acre per person…
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Small Scale Composting
Organic waste comprises an estimated 20-40% of the solid waste stream that ends up in landfills. Organic matter breaks down…
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How We Make an Income While Homesteading
One of the reasons we started our homestead was quality of life. My wife and I were both working while…
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Turning Firewood into Mushrooms
A few year ago, I was sucked into edible mushrooms. We went to a mushroom class given by Bill Russell.…
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Ways We Harvest Food on a Small Homestead
There are so many avenues of food cultivation on the Earth. Our Earth is constantly creating food for us, but…
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Shou Sugi Ban: How to Preserve Wood Using Fire
Modern building practices often use designs and materials which cause destruction or detriment to the surrounding ecosystem and utilize resources…
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Maximizing Your Urban Space
I’ve been an apartment-dweller most of my life, and I used to think that growing food was always going to…
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Heat Your Home with Less Wood
Another year, another blink of an eye, and summer has already evaporated. As the wildflowers begin to thin and the…
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20 Garden Hacks for the Quirky and Pragmatic Permaculturalist
There is a new term—hack—spinning wildly on the World Wide Web, and I’ve resisted it. I grew up in a…
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Making Biogas is Easy
Methane is a versatile, sustainable gas that can be used to perform everyday tasks like heating water and cooking food…
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