Modern convenience makes daily life easy, but it’s also led many of us to lose touch with skills that once formed the backbone of every household. When you cultivate homesteading abilities—many of ...

What follows below is a partial list of homesteading skills that my husband and I share between us. I offer this list as a starting point to hopefully inspire young couples or new homesteaders to ...

Part 1 of the ABC’s of homesteading listed considerations regarding Ability: physical, mental, financial, attitude and emergencies and this part deals with the Basics of homesteading. Sometimes people ...

In an age of technology, when grocery shopping is at your fingertips and sitting in front of screens is a daily practice, many of us feel the pull of the old ways, to the simple way of life that once ...

LINDSEY - There isn’t much Toni Pendleton of Lindsey buys at the store. When she heads to the market, her shopping list may include milk, laundry detergent or toothpaste, but what is noticeably ...

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Would you like to brew your own beer, raise backyard chickens or keep bees? Have you ever wondered how to dye clothes, spin cloth or weave baskets? If so, the Willamette Heritage Center’s new ...

In the late-'70s BBC sitcom Good Neighbors, Tom and Barbara Good quit their corporate jobs, unplugged from the electrical grid and started a miniature farm on their suburban London lot. In their quest ...

“Okay, it’s time to get started,” a Purdue Extension educator says and draws attention to a raw wool fleece on the table. In the next two hours, participants will sort the fleece, spin it into yarn ...

Whether it's for political, ideological, economic or environmental reasons -- or because it's just plain fun -- a growing number of people are embracing elements of old-fashioned homesteading. Of ...