From June to August, Ben and I participate in a local Farmers Market called Downtown Rising in Plattsburgh, NY. As some of you may know, a lot goes into a Farmers Market. Generally the week before is the time to make and prep new products for the following weekend. Friday evening can be a late […]

The internet is a wonderful tool to advertise your homemade products. Whether you have your own website, sell through social media or online classifieds, or run a shop through a site like eBay or Etsy, making the sale is only part of the process. You still need to find the best way to get the […]

Pumpkins are for laughter — for Jack-O-Lanterns and Halloween — during the cool, overcast days of autumn. Pumpkins are for pies . . . all winter long. And pumpkins are for extra cash: their sales bring in dollars when most other money crops are gone. A fellow homesteader put it this way: “Pumpkins are our […]

Find Cottage Food Laws for Your State! Shared from MOTHER EARTH NEWS – Written by Rebecca Martin Want to sell your homemade food but worry that the law won’t let you? Check out Forrager, an online clearinghouse for information on how home cooks and bakers can have their cake and sell it, too. Forrager focuses on […]

We all like to think that we are too smart to be influenced by marketing. So it’s easy to think that when you set up your first farmer’s market table or open your homestead farm stand all you have to do is offer quality products and courteous service, and sales will happen. However, there is […]

Reducing the flock with an eye on how they benefit or harm the flock and farm.

If you find yourself immersed in sustainable living, and can’t seem to learn enough to satisfy your desires to live life more freely in a way that creates harmony for all living things, then it’s time that you holistically transform your life around this ethos that you so desire. Don’t just get by; it’s possible […]

A farm is not complete without proper fencing to keep animals in or out of designated areas. In our case, the property had not been used as a homestead in a very long time. As a matter of fact, the house had set empty for over 3 years before we bought it. Not one stitch […]

It’s all in a name, right? When you are shopping, what do you look for? It’s those tried-and-true products that are the go-to items on your list. What do you look for as you’re racing through a weekday shopping trip, before you have to get home and make supper (and attend to the other dozen […]