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Snowshoeing, a Fun Winter Activity

Snowshoeing, a Fun Winter Activity

If you can't garden, go snowshoeing! Except for the indoor garden we are enjoying a break in gardening, that's kind ...
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How to thrive in social isolation

How to Thrive in Social Isolation

Social isolation has been part of our life for a long time and for different reasons. Now that it also ...
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The No-Plan Meal Planning Method is a great approach to meal planning in order to use what grows in the garden and is in season.

The No-Plan Meal Planning Method for Gardeners

The no-plan meal planning method has been developed over years out of the necessity to combine planning meals with using ...
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Under Preserving we share how we preserve food. With only about 100 frost free days, we want to preserve and store our summer bounties as much as we can to have homegrown food all throughout the long winter.

5 Ways to Preserve Food

Living in a cold climate with a short growing season - food preservation is a must. In order to be ...
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Create a better world

Why we are not prepping

Survivalists or preppers who actively prepare for an emergency, disaster, end of the world, or the coming of zombies seem ...
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Turn a yard into a garden

Turn a Yard Into a Garden

Living in a town or city house, either owning or renting you might not consider that you are able to ...
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7 Proven Steps to Feed a Family on a Tight Budget

7 Proven Steps to Feed a Family on a Tight Budget

We have been on a tight budget on and off for many years, for different reasons and in different countries ...
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My house may be a mess, but you should see my garden

FlyLady System for Homesteading

"My house may be a mess, but you should see my garden" - can you relate? As a homesteader, we ...
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Cookbooks to Start a Plant-Based Diet

Cookbooks to Start a Plant-Based Diet

‘Make America Healthy Again’ - is the slogan of the Million Dollar Vegan campaign, telling the world why being vegan ...
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Animal-Free Homestead

Animal-Free Homestead

Technically we are not an animal-free homestead, we have always had some pets. It started with our daughter wanting a ...
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Gardening without pain

Gardening Without Pain

Just over a year ago gardening without pain was a dream for me. After an x-ray, I knew it was ...
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Making Progress on One Thing a Day

Making Progress on One Thing a Day

You know the feeling when there are not enough hours in a day, you are always behind trying to keep ...
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Successful Gardening is not Depending on a Green Thumb

Successful Gardening is not Depending on a Green Thumb

It is a common assumption that successful gardening is depending on a green thumb. Some people have the ability to grow ...
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Freestyle Cooking

Freestyle Cooking

Freestyle cooking is an easy, fast, flexible and realistic way to prepare food. In a day and age of overload ...
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Our thoughts on the whole-food plant-based diet, what is it, why eat healthily, and the challenges that come with a vegan diet.

Thoughts on the whole-food plant-based diet

If you follow us on social media you might have noticed that we talk about the whole-food plant-based diet more ...
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How people lived simple yeastarday - childhood memmories about homesteading.

How People Lived Simple Yesterday

Simple living, self-sufficiency, off-grid living and back to the basics is having a huge comeback these days. Homesteading and backyard farming ...
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We want to encourage you to start homesteading right where you are at, and give you 5 good reasons why to start homesteading.

Start Homesteading

Homesteading is something we talk about a lot here at Northern Homestead, even though we are not a classic homestead ...
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Top 5 Appliances I Would Not Want to Miss in my Homestead Kitchen. These are real kitchen helpers that make cooking from scratch easy.

5 Appliances I Would Not Want to Miss in my Kitchen

Most food in our house is prepared right in our kitchen. There is not much that we buy ready made ...
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Here are 7 practical things to make gardening for the weak, sick and lazy gardeners more enjoyable and successful. Proven gardening methods anyone can do.

Gardening for the Weak, Sick and Lazy Gardeners

Since I write a homesteading/gardening blog you could get the impression that I am a hard working gardener, always on ...
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STOP brushing teeth with floor cleanser. I use Toothpaste from MODER instead.

Stop Brushing Teeth with Floor Cleaner

When I first heard about floor cleaner being in my toothpaste I was shocked. Not sure if I was seeking ...
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7 Gift ideas for Gardening Moms

7 Gift Ideas for Gardening Moms

If your mom is a gardener, you are lucky! Not just because she is an awesome person, that is what ...
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12 Reasons to Live in a Small House - Other Than Money

12 Reasons to Live in a Small House – Other Than Money

We all know those great financial reasons to live in a small house: less mortgage, less maintenance costs, less heating ...
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Moving is stressful, there is no doubt about it. Here are 7 Things to do before you move - it will make your next move go smoothly.

7 Things To Do Before You Move

Moving is stressful, there is no question about it. We have done it so many times now - in town, ...
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Homemade Menuplanner

Handmade Menu Planner

One of my very special gifts that decorate our kitchen is a handmade Menu Planner from our daughter Melanie. Isn't ...
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The Fidibus 21 Grain Mill is a high quality German engineering corundum/ceramic mill. Easy to use, creates minimum mess and looks good. Recommending it!

Why We Like Our Fidibus 21 Grain Mill

Bread and pastry are one of our favorite dishes. They are yummy, comforting and easy to make. If there is ...
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