The Plan pillar is where you build clarity before you buy, build, or do anything. Everything here is about making better homestead decisions from the start.
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How to Build a Complete Homestead Planning System Without Overwhelm
Learn about a Homestead HUB—a complete homestead planning system for managing and organizing your homestead dreams. Discover the key components that make up a successful Homestead HUB and how they work together to support your homesteading journey.
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How to Create Your Homestead Blueprint (No Matter Where You Live)
Do you live where you feel like you can’t live the homestead lifestyle you want? I did. I lived in an HOA when I decided the homestead lifestyle was for me. But all I saw were roadblocks: I felt defeated. How could I live this homestead lifestyle I now longed for? I thought I was…
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15 Interesting Plants I Must Try | Seed Catalogs For 2022
January used to be my least favorite time of year. After the holidays, it seemed empty with nothing to look forward to. Now it is one of my favorite times of the year due to the excitement of seed catalogs being delivered! One of the most profound lessons I learned from reviewing seed catalogs is…
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Starting A Desert Garden | How To Build My Growcery Store
We have observed our property for a year, our house is being built, and we are finally ready to start our first garden here! This is the project I have been waiting for! I have spent the last year researching desert gardening methods as well as general gardening methods. My garden plan incorporates methods from…
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7 Key Questions For New Desert Gardeners (Avoid My Mistakes)
One of the main goals for my desert homestead is to grow a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. Now that our house is under construction, it is time to start making my dream come true. When I gardened at our first homestead, I didn’t take the time to develop a plan for my garden…
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The Best Fruit Trees For Starting Your Desert Homestead
Figuring out which trees to start planting on your new homestead can be overwhelming. Nurseries, catalogs, and big box stores are filled with so many choices. When we started our first homestead, we planted a large variety of trees and had many discouraging failures. Now that we are developing a new homestead, we decided to…
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Finding Your Homestead Land – Best Tip Plus 7 Strategies
Buying land for your homestead can be very stressful if you have never been through the process before. We found many great tips and strategies that we used for finding land through google searches. After 2 years of actively touring properties, my favorite tip that I didn’t see on the internet is to look past…
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Semi-Custom Home Build – 7 Key Questions For The Builder
Determining if building a semi-custom home is the right choice for your homestead can be daunting. It isn’t as easy as buying a home to be built in a typical neighborhood. After going through the process, we found that there are 7 key questions you should ask the builder to help you make the best…
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Manufactured Home Pros and Cons: Why It Wasn’t Right for Our Rural Land
If you’re considering a manufactured home for rural land, this post shares why it was not the right fit for my property, goals, and long-term homestead plans. I spent months touring options, comparing costs, and evaluating how each one measured up against our budget and wishlist. In the end, we said no to a manufactured…
