If you’ve been thinking about taking that idealistic step away from the mainstream and moving towards self-sufficiency, then you’re not alone. It’s a term we’ve heard a lot more this past year and a bit, and has become a lot more mainstream itself. So how realistic is it these days? With a cultural shift evolving and lots of us re-evaluating and changing priorities, we seem to be gleefully stepping further and further away, or so it seems, from the benefits of modern life.
Using the deep mulch method in your garden
Gardening can be a lot of hard physical work. You need to till the soil up in the spring, weed the beds weekly, fertilise often, and water daily. If you want to reduce the time commitment, it’s time you tried the deep mulch method.
Seeing gratitude as a homesteader
Seeing gratitude as a homesteader is something we are lucky to experience often. Whether its being able to see a sky full of stars, or waking up to the kookaburra’s singing…there’s lots to be grateful for when living in the bush. This post looks at some of the ways I see and experience gratitude on my homestead.
Weekly round-up 11 July 2021
Another week on the homestead. This week we settled into a new work structure, Moose had his hendra booster, and we had a few outings that made us realise how much we love and value the farmlife. Read on for more.
20 Ultimate Pandemic/Lockdown Survival Tips For Homesteaders
To survive this pandemic and any future inability to move around freely in the future, you’ll need to act smart, use your resources wisely, in order to ensure you have enough for you and your family to make it through the other end. So here I’ve compiled a bit of a list of useful tips you’ll need to survive lockdown, and if you don’t already have these in place, plans and ideas about how you can implement them for the future.
Weekly update 4 July 2021
A month worth of rain in a week! While the week was almost mostly a write-off, we still got some of the gardening projects complete – especially our greenhouse and seedlings!
10 free and easy ways to improve your garden soil quality
Improving the quality of your garden soil doesn’t have to be expensive or difficult. By implementing these 10 free and easy tips, you can create a healthy and productive garden that will provide you with nutritious produce for many years.
Weekly round-up 27 June 2021
Just because the week starts off quiet, doesn’t mean it will end that way! A new farrier, some horsemanship realisations, starting a gardening project, and more!
20 Best Vegetables For Canning (and pickling!)
When you have all those extra vegetables, what do you plan on doing with them? Sure you could give them away, but what would be much better is if you canned and pickled them! In this post, we talk about the 20 best vegetables to can and pickle and the brief process in doing so.
Canned & Pickled Jalapeno Slices
Need an awesome pickling recipe for all those fabulous jalapenos you just harvested? Well, look no further. Because I’ve got you covered!