Survivalists or preppers who actively prepare for an emergency, disaster, end of the world, or the coming of zombies seem to like our blog. We are sometimes asked about prepping, or what we think about it. In our world, it would seem that everyone should be prepared. However, we do not consider ...
Homesteading
5 Ways to Preserve Food
Living in a cold climate with a short growing season - food preservation is a must. In order to be able to eat homegrown food all year round, we have to store it away. Here are 5 ways to preserve food that we use. Long time storage Into this category fall simple dry storage, root collaring, and ...
How to Create a New Garden Bed
Not even 100 years ago every family had a garden. Children learned from their parents and every house came with a more or less established garden. That has changed, but more and more people want to go back to gardening, and growing theyr own food. Gardens are rewarding and fun. How to create a new ...
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 grow a big portion of your own food in a healthy, organic way. However, that is possible. We want to encourage everyone to turn a common yard into a bountiful edible garden. In this post, we ...
FlyLady System for Homesteading
"My house may be a mess, but you should see my garden" - can you relate? As a homesteader, we could add "but you should see my pantry, or my barn, or my cellar". It seems there are always more important things to do than cleaning and organizing the house. The FlyLady system comes to the rescue for ...
Animal-Free Homestead
Technically we are not an animal-free homestead, we have always had some pets. It started with our daughter wanting a bunny. Over the years we have had several bunnies, a guinea pig, a hamster, and several cats. But we did not butcher or eat them. The real homesteading animals that we have raised ...
Preparing and Storing Canning Jars
The canning season is a busy time of the year. Preparing and storing canning jars so that they are ready to be refilled helps a lot. Yes, it eliminates a few steps of work during the cunning season. This can be done all throughout the winter as jars get emptied out, or beforehand in spring. Just ...
Gardening and Wildlife
If you live in a rural area gardening and wildlife might have to coexist. We do not garden for wildlife, as some animal lovers suggest, but we also don't garden against animals. We just garden while creatures big and small pass by. Here we share our and some of our readers' experiences and how we ...
How Much Food Can an Urban Homestead Grow for the Winter
How much food can an urban homestead grow for the winter? Here we share our Northern Homestead homegrown food storage as of today, Thanksgiving 2018. We are doing our best to live mindfully, kindly, sustainable and joyfully. Our food storage is filled to overflow because we have been blessed with ...
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 has become popular again. In this post, I share childhood memories of how my parents lived a simple, mostly self-sufficient, urban homesteading life. How ...
