Tara Dodrill, Author at Homestead Survival Site

How to Homestead on Less Than an Acre

You don’t need lots of land to homestead. With smart planning, you can grow food, raise livestock, and be self-reliant on less than an acre.

How much land does it take to be self-sufficient? The answer might surprise you. It’s less about acreage and more about time and skills.

Heat can be deadly for your flock. Learn how to recognize the signs of heat stress in chickens and 15 ways to keep them cool in hot weather.

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.

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.