Homemade Bread 101 Bread is all-time favorite food for many Americans, and homemade bread, perhaps, has no competitors. Made using only 5 ingredients, this delicious homemade bread will soon become a stable in your urban homestead kitchen. All you need for this French bread is 1 1/4 th cup of warm water (not boiling!), a ...
Make Your Own Cheese Make your own cheese at home is an integral part of self-sufficiency and frugal living. There are a million ways of making homemade cheese, and each method has its own advantages and difficulty levels. Here’s a table outlining various types of cheese and a brief description of how they are typically ...
Which Homesteading Skills Do I Need To Know? Although homesteading skills are certainly not a new concept, the ideas and concepts of urban homesteading has started to gain traction with both the young and the urban population. In the past, homesteaders spent years undertaking backbreaking tasks of plowing, tilling and harvesting farms carved out of ...
Homesteading is all about providing for yourself; making your own backyard compost is also one of the major parts of urban homesteading. Backyard composting, often referred to as home composting, is the practice of recycling organic waste from your household and yard to create nutrient-rich compost in your own backyard. It involves collecting a mix ...
Livestock Livestock can be a great deal of work and care for the livestock will be crucial in determining nutritious food or fodder for family pets. The type of animal you choose should be based on your ability to care for the animal, to be able to breed the animal in a safe environment and ...
Weeds and Pests Regardless of the type of garden you are going to grow, you are going to face weeds and pests. Whether you have a large backyard garden or a small container garden on your balcony, you will be invaded by weeds and pests, at any one point in time. You should be prepared ...
Homestead Gardening Types Obviously, you know that there are many homestead gardening types, but what are they exactly? The different kinds of gardening are: 1. Square foot gardening 2. Rooftop gardening 3. Container gardening 4. Vertical Gardening 5. Backyard gardening 6. Raise bed gardening 7. Trellis gardening 8. Companion gardening You may also use a ...
Soil Types Continuing with our homesteading series, we today will talk about … soil types. There are four descriptive types of soil: Grainy Sandy Clay Well drained-loamy, which is the ideal soil for gardens Scientists, however, classify soil depending to its: 1. Color The color of the soil can give information about unprocessed matter in ...
Selecting The Location Selecting the location for your urban homesteading garden is not a tough task as long as you have your priorities set right. When you are selecting the location for your garden, you should first decide whether you are going to have a normal backyard garden or a vertical garden, a container garden ...
Choosing Plants For Homesteading Deciding on what to plant is one of the toughest decisions you are going to take; it is not easy to resist the temptation of planting just about everything at once. Today, let’s learn about choosing plants for homesteading! Most garden varieties used by many green thumbed gardeners are the annuals; ...
