Tara Dodrill, Author at Homestead Survival Site

Why Your Garden Soil Sucks and How to Fix It

Improve your garden soil with simple, low-cost methods. Learn to test, amend, and enrich sandy, clay, and silty soils for healthy harvests.

Learn how to homestead on less than an acre. Grow food, raise animals, and live sustainably with smart small-space strategies.

Looking for top egg-laying chickens? Here are the 10 best chicken breeds for consistent, high-volume egg production.

The foods you feed to your chickens have a huge effect on their overall health and the quality of their eggs in both taste and durability.

Homemade weed killers not only help you kill all the bad weeds in your garden, they also save you money—and without the use of toxic chemicals.

Sooner or later, your fuel will run out. When they do, you’ll need a stockpile of hand-powered tools and the knowledge to use them.

Save money by finding ways to repurpose and upcycle things that other folks would throw away. Here are 65 items you should reuse.

To make this list of states for homesteaders, I took into account laws, weather, land prices, cost of living, property taxes, and more.

You can plant a survival garden no matter where you live, even if you have a tiny yard. You just have to choose the right gardening method.

Hanging planter indoor gardens are a perfect solution for urban preppers and provide added non-seasonal gardening opportunities.