Attracting Birds to The Garden
Transform your garden into a haven for birds. Discover how attracting birds can help minimize insects and create a vibrant ecosystem.
Ingredients for a Simple Life
Living Off The Land and Thriving with Self Sufficiency
Transform your garden into a haven for birds. Discover how attracting birds can help minimize insects and create a vibrant ecosystem.
Discover the unique taste and health benefits of fiddleheads. Learn how to cook and enjoy this seasonal delicacy.
The entire plant, that is the stems, leaves, flowers and roots possess strong medicinal properties. Here’s how to safely harvest it.
Ready to leave life in the city behind and dive into homesteading? Find out what homesteading can do for you and your family right now!
A little extra effort can make a big difference for backyard chickens, they’ll love these activities and you’ll enjoy them, too.
So you are keeping a few chickens and want to make you own food. Chickens, like us, very much appreciate a varied diet.
During the early 1800s, settlers in Ohio’s Highland and Ross Counties were continually threatened by huge spotted rattlesnakes.
When we think about the dangerous animals faced by our pioneer ancestors, what comes to mind? Probably we would imagine wolves, bears, panthers, and poisonous reptiles. Few would consider the lowly squirrel! But for the early Ohio settlers, the squirrel was the cause of famine and suffering.
It is still possible to create a sustainable, profitable micro farm on a small piece of land. However, the truth is that the methods and tools that worked in traditional pioneering and homesteading days just won’t cut it anymore. Here’s the truth about starting a micro farm today.
A comparison between “self reliance” and “self sufficiency” by looking at how early pioneers did it. Self reliance is an honorable goal but achieving self sufficiency is a full time job that requires teamwork.
Have you ever wondered how the pioneers got their bread? After all, there were no brightly-lit grocery stores boasting shelves of different varieties of bread. For the early settlers in southern Ohio and other wilderness areas, it took much work to create a simple loaf of bread.
Selling locally grown organic herbs and vegetables provides an opportunity to create a business from one’s own yard or garden.
It is becoming increasingly more popular to keep chickens in your back garden. In addition to the benefits derived from having delicious, free-range eggs easily available for your kitchen, you can enjoy the benefits of chickens as a companion pet.
Rabbit farming is becoming popular all over the world as rabbit is being recognized as a new source of low cost protein, with minimal set up and minimal maintenance costs.
Although chickens seem like fragile creatures, they possess certain characteristics that allow them to survive through many different weather climates.