The Homestead Guru
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The Homestead Guru was a project born by people who love talking about and trying practical solutions. We have hundreds of articles on all things practical and have built a sort of community over the years for those who want to learn and grow along with us.
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How it Began: Tiny Home Dreams to Travel Trailer Reality
What have I done? I made the decision to move out in the sticks of Texas hill country in July of 2016. Ever since I

Homesteading With Children: Radical Families Know It Isn’t for the Faint of Heart
Meet Riley: Nearly 4 Years Old Homesteading Superstar Homesteading With Children Spotlight Every so often we notice a post in a Homesteading group that catches

Ultimate Recycling: 8 Fruits And Veggies You Can Regrow From Scraps
Buying and eating organic can get quite pricey these days, but what if you could turn your left overs into fresh new produce? The practice

Gardening by the Constellations? Learn about Biodynamic Farming and Planting!
This year we’re trying something new and planting our seeds according to the biodynamic farming method. This method has been around for about a hundred

DIY Probiotics – 4 Cheap and Easy Alternatives
From Marjory Wildcraft’s GrowYourOwnGroceries.org. Yes, the prepackaged probiotic capsules and tablets in health food stores can be pricey. But there’s no need to break the

10 Most Common Cookie Baking Mistakes
Trial and Error: Common Cookie Baking Mistakes Experimenting with baked goods will definitely result in some disasters. Common cookie baking mistakes can lead to a whole

Doing Right by Your Kids Shouldn’t Mean Doing Yourself Wrong
This article is part 2 of a longer series, called Does Unschooling Have Natural Limits? Please subscribe to get future installments. I came to unschooling as a young mother,

A License To Chill: Permits for Nature
“We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world

Official Statement on Kratom Inspires Hope
What if you could simply drink an herbal tea that would work as well if not better than your average prescription pain medication? Would you be

Susanne’s Fruit Farm in Arkansas, Harvesting Blackberries
Catherine stops in Arkansas to harvest blackberries and plums on their way to Indiana. You can homestead from the road by stopping at local farms

Monarch Migration Watch 2019: Record Numbers Expected In Mexico
Monarch Migration Since I was a little girl monarch butterflies have been a symbol of beauty as well as a symbol of growth, as they

More life exists beneath the Earth’s surface than above it, scientists say.
After ten years of study, and hundreds of holes drilled into the earth, scientists have found an entire new biosphere of life underground that is
