There are many jokes in the gardening community making light of the fact that a homegrown tomato is the most expensive tomato you’ll ever eat. This is certainly true for a beginning gardener, as startup costs can have newcomers quickly wondering if it is even worth all the work and expense. The good news is…

Getting started on your homesteading journey can be intimidating. If you’re like me, you’ve spent hours online researching seed planting depths, optimal temperatures for your day-old chicks, the best brand of store-bought compost, and on, and on, and on. This can be overwhelming, and for many of us leads to a little ‘paralysis by analysis’.…

If I am to be honest with my readers – and I will do my best – one would be hard-pressed to actually call my family’s home a ‘homestead’. We live on an acre in an area that is quickly making the transition from rural to solidly suburban. Roosters still crow in the distance while…