STAR Homeschool is merged with my old site; The Well Fed Homestead. When I was writing on The Well Fed Homestead, we lived on a farm in Oregon. Here are all of the posts I wrote about Homesteading, Farming and Gardening:
Gardening
- Why Start a Garden Journal?
- I love my garden!
- What do you do with the last Zucchini?
- Gardening: The First Step
- Planning the Garden with Kids
- What’s in your compost?
- How much should you plant in your garden to provide a year’s worth of food?
- Easy Spring Greens to Grow
- Where to Buy Vegetable Seeds
- Organizing Your Gardening Supplies
- Free Farm and Garden Calendar
- What Should You Plant In Your Garden?
- Gardening in the Winter: What I’ve Learned
- 5 Essential Tips for Creating a Garden You Love
- 35 Vegetables that Grow in 60 Days or Less
Homesteading, General
- Support Farms, Not Factories
- Teaching Kids about Sustainable Agriculture
- Whole, Healthy Foods on the Brain
- New Year’s Resolutions
- Harvard Law School Raw Milk Debate
- Farm Boy 3’s Letter to Joel Salatin
- A Day in the Life of a Homesteading Mama
- Lessons from the farm: we are so disconnected
- Happy Anniversary FTCLDF! (and what this means for farmers)
- What age should a child be to mow the lawn?
- Green Washing with “Smart” Energy Programs
- The Best Books about Homesteading
- When Newbie Farmers Wish Joel Salatin Could Come Move In…
- 5 Reasons Homesteaders Should Homeschool
- When a “Farm” is Not a Farm: Zoning Regulations that Violate our Human Right to Grow Our Own Food
Our Farm & Farmhouse
- Before and Almost After: Our Kitchen
- Friday Farm Photos 5/24
- Our first time selling at Farmer’s Market
- Friday Farm Photos 6/4
- Friday Farm Photos, 6/28
- Week 2 at Farmers Market
- We are selling our farm….
- The Pros and Cons of Selling the Farm
- We are still on the farm…
- Off the Farm Update
- From Farm to Neighborhood: A Different Kind of Life
- Farmer’s Market Purchases, 6/7
- How to Set up a Farm Store
Raising Chickens & Hens
- Butchering Chickens with a Scalder & a Plucker Part 1
- Butchering Chickens Part 2
- How to Wash Eggs
- Joel Salatin Chicken Tractor Plans
- Chickens on Pasture: A Better Model!
- Low on Vitamin D? Eat Eggs from Pastured Chickens!
- The cost of growing corn free, soy free, free range eggs
- Homemade Chicken Feed without Soy or Corn
- Should Chickens Eat Soy?
- Buying Day-Old Chicks vs. Buying Older Chickens
- Should you wash your chicken eggs?
- How do you convince a family member who doesn’t want chickens that they’re a good idea?
- How many eggs does a chicken lay per day?
- The Cost of Raising Broilers without Soy, Corn or GMO’s.
A Frugal & Thoughtful Life
- Thinking About Garbage
- 3 Months, No Shopping!
- 3 Months of No Shopping: What We Bought
- 3 Months, No Shopping: January Review
- Food Swap Video!
- Me vs. We
- The Life We Choose
- The Great Loss of American Agricultural Communities
- Money and Possessions don’t feed you
- We love to farm, but love doesn’t pay the mortgage
- Priorities and $
- How to Bless a Farmer
- What to Buy a Homesteader for Christmas
- Fact: Most Farmers Are Not Rich
- Fighting for the Access to Local Food: My Interview with an FTCLDF Attorney
- Support Small Farms: Become their Social Media Manager
- The Pros and Cons of Tiny Houses
- How Coronavirus Inspires the Homesteader in Me
- A Case For Cooking Whole Chickens
- Befriend Your Local Farmer, a Food Shortage is Coming
Raising Cows & Pigs
Misc. Posts and Link Love
Canning, Freezing & Preserving Food
How to Fail at Farming