Northern Homesteading

01/14/2025

Grow Your Life - January issue is a guide to raising and keeping sheep. Get yours today at our Etsy store below! https://www.etsy.com/listing/1858484193/grow-your-life-january

01/13/2025

Grow Your Life, special eddition!
Guide to Sheep
Will be available for purchase after I get home from work tomorrow and get it on the web store.

01/06/2025

My forrage crops are looking good already. It's a mix of 9 species, both annual and perennial. This is an old pig pen that will now grow sheep feed.

01/03/2025

I started in pigs 7 years ago. It took a week to fell the trees, pick the stones, and split the rails for the fence. Quite a nice little pig pen if I do say so myself.

01/02/2025

My six and four year old daughters worked together to plant 50 wilow trees yesterday. The will grow into a hedge that will be used to feed our sheep.

12/30/2024

I absolutely love a good acorn squash. These will be our seed stock for sale in the spring.

12/08/2024

The December issue of Grow Your Life magazine is hot off the printer! Now available on ETSY. Here's a link to it down below. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1839244001/grow-your-life-december

12/07/2024

I' absolutely thrilled with the orders we've been getting! The price may seem high for some things but it covers shipping. It costs about $8 to ship a box of tubers and $14 for biochar.

12/06/2024

We're mailing out new orders of Jerusalem Artichoke tubers! There's plenty still available at northernhomesteading.etsy.com

12/03/2024

The December eddition of Grow Your Life will be available this week! This month features a writeup on raising backyard sheep.

11/22/2024

Sunflowers are quite cold-hardy. These were planted after digging potatoes. They bloomed yesterday despite the snow we received in the evening.

11/07/2024

The November issue is finished and will be available for purchase tonight!
Subscriptions will he mailed tomorrow.

11/04/2024

I'm finishing the November issue today. Topics include:
• Heritage Breed Highlight
• Outdoor Animal Shelters
• Rendering and Storing Fat
• Autumn Tree Care
• Winter Feed From Trees

10/31/2024

10/29/2024

https://northernhomesteading.com/index.php/2024/10/24/all-about-kunekune-pigs/
Kunekune are a small hog of Asian breed decent and are perfect homestead hogs. Learn about them in my featured article below.

Breed Origin The Kunekune pig, originating as a landrace breed in New Zeeland, was taken out of some unknown group of Asian Heritage Hogs. The…

10/29/2024

https://northernhomesteading.com/index.php/2024/10/24/all-about-mangalitsa-pigs/
What are Mangalitsa Pigs?
Here's an article about the special breed.

10/28/2024

This weekend's produce harvest looks decent eh?

10/27/2024

You don't need a truck to homestead. A cheap utility trailer will pull anything you might want. A Toyota Corolla can pull this trailer and load.