DIY Homesteading

In my ideal world, everyone would know how to grow their own food and live sustainably, and I’d be out of business. That’s what this page is about.

Animals

• How to raise ducks
• How to raise rabbits.
  • Rabbits arrive on the farm
  • Rabbits 101
• Raising Chickens from an Incubator
• Raising Chickens for Fun and Profit
• Raising Heritage Breed Turkeys
• American Blackbelly Sheep
  • Sheep arrive on the farm
  • First Lamb Born On Farm
  • How We Feed Bottle Babies when we have them
  • Why We Raise American Blackbelly
  • Barber Pole Worm in Sheep
• Bee Keeping

Food & Drink

• How to smoke your own bacon or How to smoke your own bacon redox
• How to harvest box elder sap and make your own maple syrup.
  • Syrup Pt. 1
  • Syrup Pt.2
• Basics of Bread Baking
• Sourdough
  • Making the Starter
  • Update with Recipe
  • Two Years On – Sourdough Recipes
  • Sourdough Biscuits
• Brewing Fruit Wines
• DIY Spice Mixes
• Things you Never Thought to Put in Your Freezer
• Best Apples for Drying
• Drying tomatoes
• Make your own vinegar
• Nutrition and Diet Series
  • Calories and a balanced diet
  • Glycemic Index and Why it Matters
  • Food Fads and Learning to Listen to your Body
  • New Ideas about Nutrition and Diet
  • Nutrition Buzz Words, Finding the Real Meaning
  • Exercise Matters

Household

• DIY Dog Biscuits (bottom of page)
• DIY Bird Suet
• Candle Making and myths about clean air
• Natural Cleaning Products
• Soap Making
  • 101
  • 201
  • Liquid Soapmaking – Where To Start
  • Essential Oils in Soapmaking (my Kindle book through Amazon)
• Essential Oil – A Safety Primer
• Lotion Making

Gardening

• Beginning Gardening – Top 10 tips
• Gardening Myths I Wish Would Die
• Additional Gardening Myths Even I Believed
• Testing Your Garden Soil for Texture (shake test)
• DIY Organic Fertilizers
• DIY Seed Starting/Potting Soil
• Why I Don’t Sterilize my Seed Starting Mix
• Why Didn’t My Seeds Come Up/Why Aren’t My Seedlings Thriving?
• So You Want to Build a Greenhouse…
• What to Plant When
• Garden Planting by the Signs
• Seed Saving
• How to Save Tomato Seeds – Detailed Instructions
• Tips on Growing Broccoli
• Learning About Corn – Sweet, Flour, Flint
• Rethinking How I Grow Carrots
• Carrot Taste Off
• Paste Tomato Taste Off
• Storage Onion Trials Part 1, Part 2
• Garden Plant Family Series
  • The Brassicas – cabbages and their cousins
  • The Mints – including many common herbs
  • The Nightshades – tomatoes and their cousins
  • The Alliums – onions, leeks, shallots, garlic
  • The Parsleys – carrots, celery and many herbs
  • The Legumes – beans, peas and their kin

Farm Business

• Selling at Farmers Markets
  • Pricing Your Product
  • Selling at Market – What You Need To Know
  • When Farmers Markets aren’t Enough

• Top 10 Lessons I’ve Learned Being In Business for 10 Years
• The Economy of Selling Wholesale
• Solar on the Farm – Grants and Costs

Admitting to Being a Closeted Prepper

Miles Away Farm Blog © 2022

Save