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Start Growing With A Homestead Education
Facebook Pinterest Email Print This post contains affiliate links. Are you ready to start growing? Welcome to the first episode of The Homestead Education! The Homestead Education Podcast is for homesteaders and homeschoolers who are seeking to continue and advance their passion for a self-sufficient lifestyle. If you are ready to learn, be encouraged, and guided, my podcast can help you (and your kids), grow your own food and grow as a person with a homestead education. Join myself and guests as I share and explore homesteading, homeschooling, and growing as a person centered on the benefits of a homestead education. Don’t forget to leave a review on your favorite podcast player!…
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5 Tips on Homestead Ingenuity
Tips on homestead ingenuity for quick fixes and solid repairs.
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5 Homesteading Homeschoolers You Should Be Following
Share on facebook Share on pinterest Share on email Share on print This post contains affiliate links. Do you sometimes feel like the only homesteading homeschooler out there? I can tell you right now that that is the farthest thing from the truth. There are so many great homesteading homeschoolers out there. Over the years I have taken a plethora of valuable lessons from many of these amazing families that put themselves out there to share their stories. My approach to homeschooling on the homestead The way we homeschool is different than many due to how we integrate homesteading into our homeschool. When it comes to our kid’s core subjects,…
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Using Research Journal Pages on Your Homestead
Share on facebook Facebook Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on email Email Share on print Print This post contains affiliate links. Create a home guide using a research journal How often do you need to do research on a situation on your homestead? How often can you not remember which text you got your information from last time you encountered a similar issue? Do you wish your kids could be more involved on in homestead decisions or could be trusted to make more educated decisions? The Research Journal could be your answer! I created a method for my kids several years ago that has them research any concerns that arise on…
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Why it is so important to process piglets early
It is extremally important to process piglets within 48 hours of birth to head off potential health problems now and in the future.
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Know when to start my seeds indoors?
Facebook Pinterest Email Print This post contains affiliate links. Do you know when to start seeds indoors for your vegetable garden? Once upon a time, knowing when to start seeds was a total mystery for me. I would stare at that map on the back of the seed packet with a swirl of color that swept across a drawing of the United States. For the most part, that picture only confused me more especially when just within my county the climate changed radically from the coast to mountains to scorching hot valleys. How could this sweeping picture on my seed packet have any accuracy? Understanding Seed Starting by zones The…
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How you can create a positive homeschool experience
Share on facebook Facebook Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on email Email Share on print Print This post contains affiliate links. You only get one chance at providing a positive homeschool “You only get one change” can sound like a scary statement, especially if you’re a new homeschool parent. Creating a positive homeschool can be easier and more fun than you think. Am I referring to one chance to teach them something? Yes. Am I referring to the time I spend with them? Yes. Am I talking about curriculum choice? Yes! What I am not talking about though, is any guilt that you’re not doing it right! Because you are.…
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Why you need a livestock first aid toolbox on your homestead
Share on facebook Facebook Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on email Email Share on print Print This post contains affiliate links. Keeping your livestock first aid toolbox handy on the homestead It seems like farm animals are constantly needing some form of assistance. It’s a goat that got all scrapped up from barbed wire, a sow needing a shot of oxytocin from a rough delivery or a beef calf that needs their 7-way out in the field. So, I make sure I have a good amount of first aid and vet supplies on hand at all times. We have a couple of shelves in the barn office that are packed…
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Growth in a homestead philosophy
Share on facebook Facebook Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on email Email Share on print Print This post contains affiliate links. My homestead philosophy I have written a lot about our story and how we got to where we are today with homesteading and homeschooling. Another area I have spoken on is how we function currently as a family and on our homestead. Now I would like to talk about my philosophies for raising my kids, the importance of self-sufficiency, the beauty of rural life beyond the scenery and why I’ve taken a turn with the Homemade Revelation to celebrate a Homestead Education. Some of the books that have helped…
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How to feel comfortable with home butchering
Share on facebook Facebook Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on email Email Share on print Print This post contains affiliate links. There’s more than one way to skin a cat (I mean butcher meat) So many of us in homesteading either want to raise our own animals for butcher, hunt, or are even gifted or traded a butcher animal. We raise our own pork, beef, and chickens that we either have butchered or cut and wrap ourselves. We also hunt and will harvest a few deer and turkey every year. We have our meat cutting down pretty well. Then this year we were blessed with a huge cow elk! And…
