Category: Starter Guides

Winter (Jan–Feb): Plan on paper. Price everything. Order seeds. This is the cheapest month of homesteading, spend it thinking. March: Start seeds indoors. Price your well, your septic, your big infrastructure now, contractors book up. April: Get beds in the ground. Cold-hardy stuff first: peas, spinach, onions. In Michigan the ground’s still half-frozen and lying… Read more

Step one: stop waiting until you know enough. You’ll never know enough. I sure don’t. Here’s the actual order I’d do it in: Pick your patch. Could be a backyard, could be 10 acres. Ours is a piece of land in Michigan. No house yet. That’s fine. Water first. Nothing lives without it. We’re pricing… Read more

Nobody is born knowing how to do this. I didn’t grow up on a farm. I’m a regular guy with my family and a mortgage where $500 goes out and about $100 hits the principal. You do the math. Homesteading is just the decision to make more of your own life yourself: some of your… Read more