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Self-Sufficiency

Posts on becoming more self sufficient

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A Community Garden and Allotments – 2 Great Alternatives to Gardening

2021-02-15
In: Gardening, Homesteading, Self-Sufficiency

More people than ever are choosing to grow their own fruits, vegetables and herbs. But often, your home lacks the growing room necessary for a garden. Securing space in a Community Garden or an Allotment is a great way to explore your love of gardening even when there just isn’tContinue Reading

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Homestead Recycling: Important Reasons Why You Should Be Doing It

2020-11-02
In: Homesteading, Self-Sufficiency

Homesteading is all about being frugal, saving money, and being resourceful. So it only makes sense that homestead recycling plays a large part in your day to day activities also. Have you ever stopped to think about how much the average person wastes each day that could be repurposed orContinue Reading

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Pursuing Sustainability Beyond the Homestead: Important Tips

2020-10-28
In: Homesteading, Self-Sufficiency

In today’s world, our individual and collective practices of sustainability are beyond imperative in the effort to curb our planet’s current trajectory toward catastrophe. Many of us know that any climate-conscious lifestyle begins, and arguably has, the most impact in the home. Homesteaders, gardeners, farmers, from-scratchers, DIY-ers, and green warriorsContinue Reading

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Will Taking Out A Loan Make Your Property More Self-Sufficient?

2020-10-27
In: Homesteading, Self-Sufficiency

Virtually anyone who has tried to homestead has entertained taking out a loan. While “living off the fat of the land” sounds like a great idea in principle, actually making it happen on the ground in practice is tremendously difficult. You have to do a lot of work. And often,Continue Reading

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How To Make DIY Emergency Candles From Recycled Candles

2020-10-23
In: Homesteading, Self-Sufficiency

Stop throwing your old candle pieces away! Use all those candle leftovers and make some great DIY emergency candles for your homestead. As an added bonus, they may even make your home smell great too! This is such a simple project and requires just a few supplies. It is aContinue Reading

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Achieving Self-Sufficiency on the Homestead: An Important Beginners Guide

2020-10-12
In: Homesteading, Self-Sufficiency

With all of the craziness going on in our current world, achieving self-sufficiency on the homestead has become more and more important to homesteaders and even non-homesteaders. Being able to depend less on others and more on yourself is becoming more of a skill and a necessity. There are soContinue Reading

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15 Acre Homestead is on an Important Self-Sufficiency Journey!

2020-09-18
In: Homesteading, Self-Sufficiency

That’s right! We have chosen our future path. We are now on an important and well-needed self-sufficiency journey at 15 Acre Homestead. And this journey may be a little different than what you may be expecting! Before I get into the details, let me tell you this ahead of time.Continue Reading

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Tips for Self-sufficient Homesteading

2020-09-16
In: Homesteading, Self-Sufficiency

Homesteading is not for the faint-hearted. The idea of self-sufficient homesteading is comforting when you consider it. You might start to feel like nothing is impossible. Of course, you can figure out how to fix your plumbing, build a well, set up a windmill, or make a new hen coop.Continue Reading

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4 Ways to Reduce Energy Wastage by Minimizing Your Carbon Footprint and Your Utility Bills

2020-08-27
In: Homesteading, Self-Sufficiency

Global warming is one of the greatest threats to humanity and is already contributing to significant climate change in many areas around the world. There are still some small alterations we can make in our everyday lives that could help reduce energy wastage – one of the primary contributors toContinue Reading

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