Tag: Wildcrafting

Free Eats! Combating the Rising Cost of Food

I try really hard to keep within our food budget. I also…

Karyn Sweet Karyn Sweet

Cooking and Fermenting with Juniper Berries

I haven’t met a homesteader who doesn’t enjoy good food but even…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

Growing Persimmons From Seed: An Unusual Fruit For Your Homestead

Persimmons are a delicious and unusual fruit to grow on your homestead.…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

The Humble Hackberry Tree

Hackberry trees are noxious weeds.  At least that’s what I was taught…

Micah Janzen Micah Janzen

Foraging Puffball Mushrooms

It was a cool and gloomy morning in the mid-October woods. But…

Kevin Wright Kevin Wright

How to Make Herbal Tinctures

Learn how to make herbal tinctures and liquid medicinals from herbs, berries,…

Linda Zimnick Linda Zimnick

Foraging the Forest for Spring Edibles

It’s early spring. The bone-chilling winds of winter have finally given way…

Wren Everett Wren Everett

Weird Things to Grow and Market on the Homestead

It’s a fact that, as a species, we bore easily.  Curious beings…

Bonnie Lavigne Bonnie Lavigne

The Profitable Homestead: How to Take Your Homestead from Hobby to Profit

It is exciting to consider the possibilities of taking your successful hobby…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

New-fangled Neolithic: Embrace Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer

"The Neolithic Revolution, Neolithic Demographic Transition, or Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale…

May Woodworth May Woodworth

Bramble Blood

There was a time in my life when from spring to September,…

Trendle Ellwood Trendle Ellwood