5 Kitchen Staples You Can Make Yourself from Your Urban Homestead

A Chicken in Every Pot

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

Woodworking 4Home Plans and Designs for Woodworking Projects

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©2010 Shanna Ohmes

When you are running your homestead, whether it includes 40 acres or your urban backyard homestead, you are going to need a good set of plans and designs for projects around the home and your animals and garden. 

In most all the places we have lived, my husband and I have . . . → Read More: Woodworking 4Home Plans and Designs for Woodworking Projects

Urban Farming–Pioneers Transforming Cities

©2010 Shanna Ohmes

In the past, pioneers traveled across the country in search of that perfect homestead land to grow their own food, raise their children and be self-reliant.  These were the people that built our country with an independent and do-it-yourself attitude. They provided crops from their farms and beef from their ranches.  . . . → Read More: Urban Farming–Pioneers Transforming Cities

Urban Homesteading–Back on the Road to Self-Sufficiency

©2010 Shanna Ohmes

Did you know that during the depression and WWII most people grew their own food called Victory Gardens in their yards?  It was the way many people could be self-sufficient and afford to feed their families in hard times.

Today, there is a growing movement back towards self reliance.  . . . → Read More: Urban Homesteading–Back on the Road to Self-Sufficiency

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