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Homesteading "How-to" & supplies
This is a "how to" site for beginning homesteaders, wanna-be homesteaders or those who are already homesteading and want to get "off grid" or make their homestead more self sufficient or a more "green/Eco-friendly" homesteading environment for yourself and/or family. We discuss seasonally related items that are currently happening on our own homestead. Such as heat/fuel, chainsaws, 2-man saws, wood stoves for heating, wood cookstoves, meat supplies, gardening, canning, cooking, composting, composting toilets, recycling, wind power, solar power, alternative energy sources. Suggestions on how you can homestead right at the home where you are living. We discuss items we use on our homestead and where you can find them. We hope to inspire you with the "know how" of how you can live a simple and happier life! Please join us! We'd be happy to answer specific questions right on our website, because if YOU want to know, so does someone else! TRY HOMESTEADING today! www.tryhomesteading.com

The blog looks at self sufficiency, sustainability, simple living, living on less, nomadic lifestyles, and foraging among other topics. We also look at Native American lifestyles and history. Tribal living systems will be looked at. Homeless and homelessness issues are often covered. Communal and community based shared living systems. Of course Homesteading and living off the land will be the topic of many posts. We will look at ways to spend less money. There will be posts on doing more with less money. Food preservation will often be looked into. There will periodically be more posts on foraging and native plant gathering. We will also cover unique characters with alternative living experiences. People that have ventured down the " path less taken ". Many of our posts will be on survival skills and primitive living experiences. We will also look at ways to save money such as soap making and sewing your own clothes. We will also look at other skills that help one get by in the economic downturn.

This blog is the journal of a California girl living in the country. It's all about living on a homestead with the goal of self-sufficiency. Follow along with her and her family as they learn all about gardening, preserving food, raising chickens, goats, and other livestock, using natural healing, making soap and other homemade products, frugal living advice, homebirthing, homeschooling, and more! If you are a seasoned gardener, then Kendra's mistakes in the garden will be sure to amuse you, but perhaps even you can learn a trick or two. And if you are a beginner as Kendra is, then you'll definitely benefit from her mistakes! Follow along with Kendra as she visits her homesteading friends in the country and gathers tons of wisdom and advice from them. Learn new tricks and techniques that you won't find in any books. You'll also find lots of delicious, tried and true recipes on her site. Everything is easy to make, has simple ingredients, and doesn't cost much to make. These are frugal meals that even the kids will enjoy! Come along and journey with her to a more peaceful and simple living.

Homesteading Webloggers
A circle of homesteading women and men webloggers from rural to urban areas. Shacommunity our experiences, ideas and wisdom on living sustainably, green, self-sufficiently, etc. All are welcome providing you are respectful of other's practices and beliefs. No weblogs promoting pornography, violence, abuse allowed. We are RESPECTFUL of our varying beliefs and lifestyles.