How To Start A Homestead

How do you start a homestead? You don't need to move to a farm to get started with homesteading. Anything you can do to develop more self-sufficiency, cut costs, and live closer to nature will begin moving you in the right direction. Start growing your food, learn to sew and preserve food and pick up other valuable skills.

Here is a full-color guide to help you and your family to be kinder to Mother Earth while being kind to your bank account! It doesn't matter where your homestead is located-farm, suburb, or even city-you can learn to grow vegetables, use alternative energy, can and preserve, and more! You, too, can be more self-sufficient!

With the rapid depletion of our planet's natural resources, we would all like to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. But amid an economic crisis, it's just as important to save money as it is to go green.

- Plan, plant, and harvest your organic home garden.

- Enjoy fruits and vegetables year-round by canning, drying, and freezing.

- Build alternate energy devices by hands, such as solar panels or geothermal heat pumps.

- Differentiate between an edible puffball mushroom and a poisonous amanita.

- Prepare butternut squash soup using ingredients from your garden.