7 Benefits & Tips For Using A Wood Cookstove

by Tammy Trayer | Sep 28, 2021 | Breads & Breakfast, Food & Kitchen, Homesteading, Off-Grid Living, Preparedness, Survival Skills, Traditional Living, Skills & How-To's, Woodstove Cooking, Writings

Today is a damp, cool, rainy September day and I’ve started my first fire for the season. There is nothing more comforting than the heat from a wood stove warming your body, but when that heat is coming from a wood cookstove there are so many more benefits. A wood...

New Beginnings

by Tammy Trayer | Jan 1, 2019 | Homesteading, Inspiration / Encouragement, Off-Grid Living, Organization, Positively Encouraging, Preparedness, Self-Reliance / Simple Living, Survival Skills, Tammy Trayer, Traditional Living, Skills & How-To's, Writings

2019 is here! 2018 went SO very fast, it is hard to believe another year is passed! We are thankful for the new year though for a New Beginning! New Beginnings is our theme for the new year. We embraced 2018 focusing on Living With Intention. Living by our terms and...

7 Most Important Things On Our Homestead

by Tammy Trayer | Dec 6, 2018 | Contributing Writers, Family / Marriage, Health & Healing, Homesteading, Inspiration / Encouragement, Off-Grid Living, Positively Encouraging, Self-Reliance / Simple Living, Tammy Trayer, Writings

Welcome to our homestead. Although you visit our homestead virtually, we want you to feel welcomed and a part of the family. We treasure our visitors and enjoy being led to share our knowledge, inspiration and offer you encouragement on your daily walk.  We enjoy...

Sun Baked Wild Turkey

by Tammy Trayer | Jul 12, 2018 | Contributing Writers, Food & Kitchen, Homesteading, Meals, Off-Grid Living, Product Reviews, Recipes, Self-Reliance / Simple Living, Solar Cooking, Sun Oven Cooking, Tammy Trayer, Traditional Living, Skills & How-To's, Writings

Wow! Are we ever crazy busy trying to finish our home so we can sell it and we are also preparing to build a new tiny home all before winter! Yikes – what a rush and wild ride!  We are attempting to do 6 months worth of work in 2! I have been educating and...

Saving Money And Winning With Money: Essentials For A Clean Life

by Michelle Hedgcock | May 9, 2018 | Budgeting & Making An Income, Contributing Writers, Finances, Homesteading, Michelle Hedgcock, Self-Reliance / Simple Living, Traditional Living, Skills & How-To's, Writings

Last time I covered many ways to save money when it came to food. Only I forgot to mention another way you can save! So, I’ll share that now and then get into other ways to save money on non-food related items. I lump this in with couponing because, again, I don’t...

How To Keep Homesteading Through Hard Times

by Mindy Young | Mar 21, 2018 | Contributing Writers, Homesteading, Inspiration / Encouragement, Mindy Young, Positively Encouraging, Self-Reliance / Simple Living, Writings

Have you had second thoughts on whether to keep homesteading or not? Maybe you’ve felt like quitting during difficult moments? I certainly have. In the past 10 years of living rural and homesteading on my own with my husband and two children, I’ve had those moments,...