Category: Homesteading
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I love opening my pantry and seeing shelves lined with jars of tomatoes I canned in August, bags of dried beans waiting to become winter stews, and flour (gluten-free for me) enough to bake bread through a cold snap without venturing to the store. I’m not preparing for societal collapse (although who really knows?); rather,…
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I know the daydream that hits you when you’re stuck in traffic at 7:45 AM, watching your life tick away in fifteen-minute increments. You imagine dirt roads instead of gridlock. Garden beds instead of grocery aisles. The sound of roosters instead of sirens. Fresh eggs from your own chickens. Tomatoes that actually taste like something.…
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There is a quiet magic in walking out your back door and harvesting food for dinner. It’s a feeling of profound connection and self-reliance, a feeling that lies at the heart of this peasant life we’re building. Yet for many, the idea of a garden is daunting. We see images of perfect, weed-free plots and…
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There are few things more satisfying than walking to my coop and collecting a handful of warm, freshly laid eggs. The gentle clucking of a happy flock is the perfect soundtrack for a simpler life. For many, bringing home chickens is the first real step towards their homesteading dream. For us, we’d been homesteading for…
