This self sustaining neighborhood, just outside of Amsterdam, produces its own power and food with vertical gardening and compositing:  

Homesteading basics with Marjory Wildcraft: Watering cans (Video):

Q&A: how to plant in a Back to Eden garden.

4 things you didn’t know about chickens:

Why switch from chickens to ducks? Homesteading basics with Marjory Wildcraft:

Here are four ideas that will get you started homesteading for beginners. Becky starts off talking about raising a hog for meat. A meat pig is an easy project to do even for beginner homesteaders. Next Becky shows you her garden and talks about all the food she is growing. Then Becky shows you her […]

What would you do if you won the lotto? -Quit your job so you have more time for yourself. Or work less hours if you like your job. A lot of people hate their job and the #1 reason they want to win the lotto is so they can quit. -Getting mortgage free and cutting […]

Nick teaches how to tie a bowline, a clove hitch and a trucker’s hitch, and explains why these skills are so important to a homestead life. The website Nick mentions is http://www.animatedknots.com. “It’s better to know a knot and not need it, than need a knot and not know it.”