Category: homesteading

Homesteading in a Tiny House | More Produce in Less Space

One of the big challenges to living in a tiny house and wanting to homestead is the limited storage space for your produce. You have to move your harvest through your tiny space and find room for it during peak harvest times. This usually means your home is a constant staging area for processing your harvest. My home is no different.

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For Self Sufficiency Should You Grow Vegetables or Staples?

This season I focused a lot more on staples in my garden. Staples are what I eat mostly, and vegetables only provide supplemental nutrients. They’re kind of like the condiment for the staple crops. So, although staples are fairly cheap to buy compared to fresh or processed vegetables, they make up much more of what keeps you going, so I want them in my garden.

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Combining Wild Foraging and Homesteading in an Ecovillage

Living more self sufficiently isn’t always just about growing your own food, it’s about foraging as much of your food as possible, too. Foraged food is the easiest to get and the least work to produce. In fact it only requires the work of gathering.

In this video I combine wild foraging fish from our pond with homemade homestead raised raw ingredients to make a fish dip. I also give an update on early season tasks and the effort to grow as much of my own food as I can.

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How I Prep for a Season of Homesteading

Sometimes the most vital part of the season is prepping for it. If you don’t plan well and line up everything just right you won’t have much to show for it at the end of the season.

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How Close Am I to 100% Food Self-Sufficiency?

My goal has always been to grow as much of my food as possible and make as much of my food from scratch using simple ingredients. Not only is this more sustainable, but I know exactly where my food comes from and what went into producing it. In this video, I give an overview of what portion of my food I’m able to produce myself and what I have to buy from the wider economy. I can’t say I know exactly what percentage of my food I grow, but it’s a lot, and I try to increase the percentage with every new season. #FoodSelfSufficiency #LocalFood #SustainableLiving #SelfSufficiency

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This Cheap, Easy Solar Power System Cut My Electric Bill A LOT

I recently decided to expand my solar power system because I’ve begun implementing more electric appliances in my house to get me off of propane, the only fossil fuel I use in the home. The system I used was super easy and incorporated a microinverter, which allows a connection without a charge controller and some of the expensive components required for a traditional power system. For about $500 I was able to add 810W to my system. As of the posting of this video I’d already made back about $100 of that investment in utility bill savings.

I have a tiny power system compared to most, but that’s because I live simply and sustainably in a small house in an ecovillage. But this system can be upscaled for any application anywhere. The benefits are that all you need to buy is the panels, a microinverter, wiring, and fuses. It’s basically plug and play, as I demonstrate in this video.

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