Homesteading

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How To Make A Simple and Frugal Liquid Dish Soap (With Video)

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13 Fun 4th of July Party Recipes

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DIY Liquid Soap (Coconut & Olive Oil)

21 Homestead House Plans That Are Timeless and Functional

fluffy gray chicken outside.

Green Queen Chickens: Everything You Need To Know

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All About Buff Orpingtons: A Classic Favorite

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11 Pretty & Practical Spring Projects for the Homestead

rows of dark bars of vanilla soap.

Vanilla Cold-Process Soap Recipe

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How to Grow Cosmos in Your Home Garden (A Simple + Pretty Cut Flower)

A Barred Rock chicken pecking at grass in a sunlit backyard. Its black and white barred feathers contrast against the green foliage in the background.

Your Guide to Barred Rock Chickens {Pretty and Easy To Care For}

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How to Make Triple Butter Soap For A Hard + Gentle Bar

A collage of various Farmhouse Halloween Recipes, including black cat cupcakes, decorated Rice Krispie treats, caramel apple pops, spider cookies, fall leaf cupcake toppers, black cocoa skeleton cookies, spooky potato skulls, candied pumpkin seeds, Halloween antipasto eyeballs, mummy Rice Krispie treats, blood-splattered white candy apples, and owl eye cookies.

20 Delightfully Spooky Farmhouse Halloween Recipes

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How to Grow the Best Tomatoes (Plus 2 Things to Never Do)

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How to Make the Best Cold Process Soap: Super Moisturizing and High Lather

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How to Grow Zinnias From Seed

A close-up of a single baby chick with grey and brown feathers standing in green grass, showcasing its developing feathers and alert expression.

How to Raise Baby Chicks at Home (A Simple Step-by Step Guide)

Inside an incubator, a newly hatched chick lies beside its egg, appearing tired and wet with a second chick partially visible, both resting on the incubator's surface.

How to Hatch Chicken Eggs in an Incubator

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How to Make Goat Milk Soap For Beautiful + Glowing Skin

A row of homemade pale pink grapefruit soap bars lined up on a blue wooden surface with white flowers in the background.

Pink Grapefruit Soap Recipe (Cold Process)

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Waiting for a Homestead: Build a Beautiful Life Right Where You Are

How To Lay Out Your Homestead So It’s Beautiful and Efficient

A wooden door opening to reveal autumn outside, with maple leaves gently falling through the doorway.

Seasonal Self Care: 16 Simple Ways to Enjoy Every Part of Your Year

A variety of colorful farm-fresh eggs in hues of brown, white, blue, and speckled patterns neatly arranged in a cardboard egg carton on a rustic wooden table with a floral-patterned cloth in the background

How To Clean Farm Fresh Eggs

How to Stock Your Homestead Kitchen for a Self Reliant Home

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7 Lovely Cutting Garden Plans (Sample Layouts + Tips For Your Own)

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California White Chickens: Productive Layers Without the Attitude

A single white chicken in a grassy field, looking healthy and alert, potentially after treatment for pasty butt.

Pasty Butt in Chickens: Prevention, Treatment, and Care

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The 5 Best Dual-Purpose Chicken Breeds And the Trouble With All Of Them

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Rich and Moisturizing Shea Butter Soap Recipe You Can Make at Home

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16+ Beautiful Cold Process Soap Recipes to Make at Home

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Easy Goat Milk Soap {Melt and Pour, No Lye!}

3 bars hot process soap with towl and flowers.

How to Make Hot Process Soap

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The Ultimate Guide to Easter Egger Chickens

Meet the Delaware Chicken: Backyard Breed Guide

Meet the Delaware Chicken: Backyard Breed Guide

Chickens Breeds That Lay Chocolate-Colored Eggs

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Which Chickens Lay The Most Eggs? The 9 Most Productive Breeds

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The Best Chicken Breeds to Eat (3 Choices)

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Favorite Chickens That Lay Blue Eggs {From Aqua to Robin’s Egg}

4 Chickens That Lay Beautiful Green Eggs (My Favorites!)

4 Chickens That Lay Beautiful Green Eggs (My Favorites!)

Large Vegetable Garden Planning: Sample Layouts and Tips for Success

Large Vegetable Garden Planning: Sample Layouts and Tips for Success