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40 Easy Tips for Gardening on a Budget
A limited budget often motivates starting a new garden to grow your own vegetables. However, gardening can be expensive. Fortunately, ...
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A Country Garden Cabin
A few years ago, we started a project to create a productive garden and orchard in the countryside using permaculture ...
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Gardening Books for Every Season
Looking to build your gardening book collection? Check out our top 3 gardening books for every season from our bookshelf ...
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DIY Haircut at Home
Do you spend too much money on haircuts or struggle with uneven DIY haircuts at home? You're not alone. Many ...
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Simple Winter Compost Solution
Composting is like nature's recycling program, but it has a bit of a love-hate relationship with winter. You see, compost ...
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Our Simplified Approach to Canning
During the warmer growing season, canning and preserving consume a significant portion of our time. Given the volume of food ...
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Making Progress on One Thing a Day
Do you ever feel like there are never enough hours in a day to keep up with the garden, harvest, ...
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Transform Your Canning Experience with a Steam Canner
Have you heard of steam canning? It's an ideal approach for processing fruits and acidic foods. It is an alternative ...
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Embracing Simplicity: The Surprising Ease of Plant-Based Eating
It has been five years since we embarked on our plant-based journey, initially motivated by health concerns. Doubts loomed over ...
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Everything you need to know about line dry laundry
With utility costs rising, line dry laundry is becoming interesting again. Growing up I did not know there was another ...
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We have been keeping a secret from you
Another Autism Spectrum Awareness Day is coming up on April 2 to remind me that we have been keeping a ...
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5 Kitchen Tools to Save Money on Food
During Boxing week, you might be torn between needing to save money and wanting to make use of the good ...
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Following your Intuition in everyday life
Following your intuition in everyday life is a subject that I have been wanting to write about for quite a ...
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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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5 Ways to Preserve Food
Food preservation is essential when living in a cold climate with a short growing season. To eat homegrown food all ...
![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.](https://northernhomestead.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Gardening-for-the-Weak-Sick-and-Lazy-Gardeners-300x300.jpg)
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 top ...
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Snowshoeing, a Fun Winter Activity
If you can't garden, why not try snowshoeing instead? While we're taking a break from our indoor garden, it's nice ...
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How to Thrive in Social Isolation
Social isolation has been part of our lives for a long time and for different reasons. Now that it also ...
![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.](https://northernhomestead.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/No-Plan-Meal-Planning-300x300.jpg)
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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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 Tips on How 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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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
We switched to a plant-based diet a few years ago and have never looked back. Eating plants tastes good, feels ...
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Animal-Free Homestead
Update: This animal-free homestead article was written 2 and a half years ago (2019) a bit over a year after ...
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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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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 is an easy, fast, flexible and realistic way to prepare food. In a day and age of overload ...
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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 Yesterday
Simple living, self-sufficiency, off-grid living, and back to the basics are having a huge comeback these days. Homesteading and backyard ...
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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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