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©2012 Shanna Ohmes Have you ever wanted to start your own seeds? Seed-starting is easy and fun and you can make your own paper pots to start them in! Recycling newspapers to make seed pots will use up that pile of newspapers you’ve saved and they will decompose in the ground when you plant . . . → Read More: Seed Starting–How to Make Paper Pots Out of Newspaper 
©2012 Shanna Ohmes The Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley, California has a program inspired by Alice Waters to teach students how to grow their own food. It’s an edible school yard on a one acre garden. This program teaches students how to grow their own food, tend to it, harvest it, and . . . → Read More: Edible School Yard Garden Teaches 1,000 Students a Year about Food 
©2011 Shanna Ohmes I’ve had lots of requests for information on permaculture and found this webinar series on YouTube I wanted to share with you. In this video series, you learn that permaculture is the most important activity that we can do to provide for a sustainable future. It is a common sense system . . . → Read More: What is Permaculture? A video Webinar Series Intro to Permaculture  Leave a comment  Animals, Gardening, Home, Homesteading, Off the Grid, People, Permaculture, Self Reliance, Traditional Cultures, Urban Homesteading  Against the Grain, Bill Mollison, Bill Wilson, chickens, Collapse, egg production, greenhouses, grow your own food, Homesteading, How to Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine, indigenous cultures, Introduction to Permaculture, Jared Diamond, John Jeavons, Midwest Permaculture, midwestpermaculture.com, pavement gardens, peak oil, permaculture, permaculture concepts, permaculture design, permaculture videos, permaculture webinar, rain gardens, raingardens, Richard Manning, Stephen and Rebekah Hren, suburban permaculture, The Carbon Free Home, topsoil, urban permaculture 
©2011 Shanna Ohmes Preserving cabbage by freezing, fermenting or drying is a great way to learn how to be self-sufficient and put food up for the winter. Cabbage is packed full of nutrients and can be used in soups, stews, trail mix, casseroles and other dishes. Freezing Cabbage: Trim outer leaves, core and quarter . . . → Read More: How to Preserve Cabbage—Freeze, Ferment and Dry Your Bumper Cabbage Crop Leave a comment Canning and Preserving, Healthy Foods, Home, Homestead Kitchen, Homesteading, Pantry and Cellar, Urban Homesteading cabbage for backpacking, Cultures for Health, dehydrators, dry cabbage, drying racks, ferment cabbage, fermenting crocks, freeze cabbage, how to, preserve cabbage, sauerkraut, self-sufficient, trail mix 
©2011 Shanna Ohmes When you are new to trying your hand at growing your own food, it can be daunting to know where to begin. How do you plan a garden for food production? Is it possible to become self-sufficient in a short time? It’s understandable to want to grow everything your first year. . . . → Read More: How to Plan Your Garden Food Production for Self-Sufficiency 
Cuisinart Chef’s Classic 12-Quart Stockpot with Cover“> Freeze your Greens—Spinach, turnip greens, dandelions and lamb’s quarters are easy to grow, and easy to put up for meals all year round. Add the frozen greens to soups or casseroles for extra nutrition and flavor. Blanch fresh greens (stems removed), in boiling water for 2 minutes. . . . → Read More: 5 Kitchen Staples You Can Make Yourself from Your Urban Homestead 
©2011 Shanna Ohmes Backyard beekeeping is shaping up to be the latest trend in urban areas in addition to gardening, chickens and rabbits. Why should you raise bees? Bees are essential for the pollination of plants and crops. The last few years there has been an overwhelming disappearance of bees due to colony collapse . . . → Read More: Beekeeping—10 Reasons to Raise Your Own Bees Leave a comment Animals, Animals and Livestock, Bees, Bookstore, Business Ideas, Country Living, Healthy Foods, Home, Homesteading, Self Reliance, Urban Homesteading backyard beekeeping, beekeeping, Beekeeping for Beginners, beeswax, candles, CCD, colony collapse disorder, DIY Beehive Construction Guide, honey, honey soaps, how to raise bees, How to Start Beekeeping, lip balm, lotion, make your own beehive, propolis, raise bees, reasons to raise bees, The Barefoot Beekeeper, urban beekeeping 
“> Pre-fab coops are more expensive, but easier and quicker to get up and going with your chickens. Just order and the coop will arrive ready to be moved into your yard. You can also order “some-assembly required” kits. Build it yourself. If you love woodworking or want to learn, building your own chicken . . . → Read More: Choosing the Right Chicken Coop for Your Urban Backyard Chickens Leave a comment Animals, Animals and Livestock, Bookstore, Building and Woodworking, Chickens, Home, Homesteading, Products, Urban Homesteading 6 x 8 Colonial Gable Chicken Coop, 6 x 8 Gambrel Barn Chicken Coop, backyard chicken coop, backyard chickens, Building a Chicken Coop, building a coop, chicken coop blueprints, chicken coop designs, chicken coop kits, Chicken Coop Portable for 3 to 5 hens, chicken coops, chicken tractors, choosing the right chicken coop, Deluxe Chicken Coop with Easy Egg Access, eggs, How to Build a Chicken Coop, Incredible Chickens, nesting boxes, omega-3, pre-fab chicken coops, Premium+Chick-N-Lodge, Premium+Universal Chick-N-Nest Box, Self Reliance 
©2010 Shanna Ohmes If you have never had fresh homemade mozzarella cheese for your homemade pizza, you really don’t know what you are missing out on! A friend of mine made her own fresh mozzarella and other cheeses from her wonderful Jersey cow’s milk and when I tasted it for the first time . . . → Read More: Deluxe Mozzarella and Ricotta Cheese Making Kit Leave a comment Cheese Making, Dairy, Healthy Foods, Home, Homestead Kitchen, Homesteading, Products, Self Reliance, Urban Homesteading cheese making kit, cheesemaking kit, cows milk, Deluxe Mozzarella and Ricotta Cheese Making Kit, goats milk, homemade pizza, how to make cheese, how to make mozzarella, how to make ricotta, Jersey cows, preserve milk, The CheeseMaker, The CheeseMaker.com, thecheesemaker.com 
©2010 Shanna Ohmes Did you know you can make your own tinctures, salves, herbal syrups and infusions right in your own kitchen? By learning how to make your own safe herbal remedies for your family you will have peace of mind knowing your are keeping your family healthy as well as saving money by . . . → Read More: Herbal Medicine Making Kit….Learn How to Make Your Own Herbal Remedies One comment Colds and Flu, Crafts, Health, Herbs, Herbs, Home, Homestead Kitchen, Products, Urban Homesteading Echinacea tincture, elderberry syrup, healthcare, Herbal Medicine Making Kit, herbal remedies, herbal salves, how to make, Learning Herbs.com, LearningHerbs.com, make herbal syrups, make infusions, make salves, make tinctures, nourishing infusions, salves for cuts scrapes, save money, step-by-step, traditional cultures |
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