Open Directory - Home: Rural Living: Homesteading
See also: - Specializing in equestrian homes and horse property marketing across the US and Canada - This blog follows a once suburban girl through her new life as a rural homesteader. - E-mail list about draft animals. Archives of past postings. - Selected articles from the print magazine on do-it-yourself projects and self-reliant rural living. - Tips on living a "back to basics" lifestyle, including canning, livestock, and other homesteading staples. - Articles and weblog about back-to-basics living, by a homesteader with thirty years of experience. - A northern Texas homestead attempting to live as self-sufficiently as possible. Describes raising and selling organic vegetables, fruits, eggs and natural chicken and rabbit meats. - A look at a couple adopting a simpler lifestyle and restoring an abandoned homestead farm and farmhouse in Tennessee. - An open forum on homesteading topics, with a strong focus on Christian and biblical concerns. - Offers advice to those trying to make a living in the country, or those in cities who dream of getting the chance to live of the land. - Country magazine for readers seeking voluntary simplicity, greater self-reliance (homesteading) with emphasis on home food production-gardening, cooking, and food preservation. - Homestead portal with books, classroom resources, and agricultural gifts. - Frequently asked questions and answers on growing, harvesting, and storing hay for small farms. - Articles devoted to teaching you how to build a frugal and sustainable rural lifestyle. - Introduction, opinion and an organized collection of Web resources, devoted to the subject of modern homesteading, broadly defined. - A group where single homesteaders, or those who would like to be homesteaders, meet and exchange ideas. - LifeUnplugged hosts a variety of articles regarding green building technology, alternative energy solutions, farm and garden articles, and general stories of interest related to sustainable living. - Learn about frugal living, homesteading, English cottage gardening, and cheap meal recipes. Based in Victorian Queen Village, New York. - A list of online and print resources recommended by a professor who specializes in research about self-sufficient living. - Information about homesteading, organic gardening, self-sufficiency, seed saving, solar energy and recumbent bicycles. - Guide to producing your own maple syrup at home in your back yard. Sections include tapping trees, collecting sap, boil down, bottling and cleanup. They also sell kits for home maple syrup production. - Information on housing, livestock, gardening, recipes, canning, root cellars and utilities for the modern homestead. - Articles and journal about homesteading, gardening, livestock, simple living. Offers homemade goat's milk soap, handcrafts, natural lotion bars, handmade rice bags. - Organic family homestead raising Dexter cattle for beef and dairy, Arabian horses, chickens, and various other homestead animals. - Publishers of a manual on homesteading and survival skills. - A site with a Message board and Chat room where viewers can share information and ask questions about all aspects of country living, homesteading, and home remedies. - Information about many different subjects of interest. - Information about various aspects of rural survival including water tanks, root cellars, Energy and future small farm technology's. - Self-reliance, sustainable living and homesteading products, resources and information to prepare and protect in the event of an emergency. - Essays on the topic of self-sufficient country living, from a Christian perspective. - An on-line book about one family's simple and sustainable-living lifestyle. Other pages include tips and inspiration for simple living, natural building, communities, the ecology and other topics. - Promotes small-scale low-technology agriculture and backyard fruit production. The emphasis is production of cane syrup, with essays on syrup chemistry and access to bulletins. - Blog containing photos and how-to articles by two former city-dwellers who moved to the country to raise livestock, grow food, brew beer and wine. - Articles and a forum dedicated to self-reliance and sustainability with common sense. Modern ideas applied to old fashioned living. - This work of fiction tells the utopian tale of a homesteading adventure starting in 1964 and becoming a worldwide homesteading community. - A blog aimed at helping Christians prepare for uncertain times ahead. Focusing on Bible study and Homesteading. - Answers to frequently asked questions and other information about small tractors. - Online catalog for food storage goods with information and hints for self-sufficient living. - A small organic homestead and education center in North Carolina. Internship possibilities and courses taught.
