Organic gardening and homesteading

Organic Gardening and Homesteading provides you with valuable homesteading information as well as tips on frugal living and self reliance.

Learning Self Reliance Using Organic Gardening Techniques
and Frugal Living

And what will that mean to you?

Try independence.

The satisfaction of knowing you did it yourself.

Freedom.

Think looking to yourself for food instead of a grocery store or fast food place. Knowing exactly what's going into your body, and what your children are eating, and even leaving the insanity of commutes, traffic, and crowds behind.

A Return to a Simpler Lifestyle

Less than a hundred years ago, the small farm was king. And if they didn’t live on a farm, at the very least folks had chickens in their backyards and grew their own vegetables.

But then big business came on the scene, and we all got office jobs. And women went to work, too, because why should men have all the fun?

So we all dressed up in our office clothes, dropped our kids off at the public school or daycare, spent hours in the car, sat at a desk for even longer hours, took half an hour at noon and raced to a nearby fast food place.

We’d eat fried chicken or a burger and fries that made us feel stuffed and miserable. Then we’d race back to the office so we could sit at our cubicles for a few more hours.

Then we climbed into our cars and drove home, where we were too tired to cook so we either picked up some more fast food that made us feel bloated and miserable or we popped a frozen meal into the microwave which wasn’t much better.

And then we drugged ourselves with television until it was bedtime, when we’d lay awake half the night struggling with insomnia. And we’d be sick all the time and wonder why.

Is That Really How You Want to Live?

There is another way, a way that will help you eat better, cut costs and even get out of debt. But growing foods organically and having a homestead is not just a way to get great food. It is also learning to slow down, to enjoy the simple life while working harder than you ever thought you could and loving every second of it.

It’s learning to live the frugal life so you don’t have to earn as much. And it can also mean finding alternative forms of income so you don’t have to make that commute everyday. Plus you don’t have to own a big plot of land either. It is not about owning an acreage, although folks who start down this road usually end up with an acre or two eventually! Instead, it's a way of life that can be lived just as easily in town as in the country.

You have a great life ahead of you, and this is the place to help you find it.

Enjoy!

Sue Merriam

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Lisa

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Natural Herb Medicine

Natural herb medicine is growing - and using - herbs for healing. While this section is not intended to replace the medical advice of a physician, many have used healing herbs for years.

What is Homesteading and 
Why I'm Pursuing the Homesteading Life

What is homesteading? The answer is different today than what it was more than a century ago. Homesteading in the early 19th century meant earning land by proving you could live off it for a few years

You Can Build a Chicken Tractor - Step by Step Instructions

You Can Build a Chicken Tractor - For Beginners, Experts and Everyone In Between

Build Your Own Solar Powered Generator - Solar Power at a Fraction of the cost

Build Your Own Solar Powered Generator - Solar Power at a Fraction of the Cost

Facts About Goats for Healthy and Natural Milk and Cheese

Facts about goats include the benefits of goat milk and the value these wonderful animals add to your modern-day homestead

Why Raising Chickens Are
a Valuable Addition to Every Homestead

Raising chickens in your backyard farm is the fastest way to a healthy organic garden, and a delightful way to make your homesteading more self-sufficient. Learn how to raise chickens.

Honey Bee Beekeeping - Tips on Keeping Bees

Honey bee beekeeping is a great part of self reliance and provides you with fantastic fresh, raw honey. Learn beekeeping basics and you'll have fresh, raw honey year after year.

Raising Cows

Raising cows is a sensible way to make use of that extra land that isn't good for much else.

Hog Raising - What We've Learned So Far

Hog Raising is a great way to provide great-tasting meat for your freezer at a reasonable cost while utilizing a small amount of space.

What is Personal Finance

What is personal finance? Simply put, it is a way of living that will help you become debt free and not only survive difficult times, but thrive.

Healthy Cheap Recipes For Long Life and a Healthy Homestead Budget

Healthy cheap recipes are the best of both worlds. These delicious, healthy frugal recipes strengthen your body and your budget.

Homemade Cleaning Products to Be a True Self Reliant Homesteader

Homemade cleaning products. Make your own homemade cleaning solutions to save money, avoid harsh chemicals and enjoy the satisfaction of being a true self reliant homesteader.

Quick Healthy Recipes for Families

Quick healthy recipes for families that you make from scratch may sound like an oxymoron to some (sort of like the phrase "jumbo shrimp"), but these recipes typically take no more than half an hour.

Tips to Homesteading

Tips to homesteading wouldn't be complete without some pointers on how to keep from getting burned out.

Urban Homesteading - Self Reliance for City Dwellers

Urban homesteading can be tough sometimes. You want to become self-reliant, but instead of being surrounded by acres of farmland, you see nothing but acres of cement.

Off the Grid Power Provides Free Energy

Off the grid power is true self reliance, enabling you to have free electricity. Here's how.

Homeschooling Versus Public Schools

Homeschooling versus public schools. Once you begin pursuing the self reliant life, living the homeschool life with your children becomes a given.

Can You Make Money Homesteading?

Can you make money homesteading? Actually homesteading is a lifestyle rather than a vocation, but can you find a way to pursue your passion of self reliance, living off the land, and earn an income?

Disaster Preparedness List - Being Prepared in the Face of Danger

Disaster preparedness list. It's not only a crucial element of self sufficient living, but also pure survival.

Benefits to Organic Gardening

Benefits to organic gardening include the best, fresh delicious harvests without using harmful chemicals to help your plants grow.

How Hydroponics Works

How hydroponics works is a good thing to know if you want to grow fresh lettuce and other vegetables year round, even indoors, using far less space and water than conventional methods.

Safe Table Saw Use

Safe table saw use is not only possible, but occurs on a routine basis on homesteads and in workshops across the country.

Adventures of Goose Poop Farm by Ric McDermott

Adventures of Goose Poop Farm is the story of one man learning how to live the self-reliant life outside of Pepin, Wisconsin.

The Homesteading Blog Keeps You Up-To-Date With What's New

The Homesteading Blog keeps you up to date with everything new that's happening at Organic Gardening and Homesteading.

Bartering Corner

The bartering corner is where you can trade your homegrown products for items of equal value.