Author Archives: Cherie de Vidal

I’m doing yet another short and sweet post because you don’t have time to waste reading too much and I’ve got my own homestead to take care of. Whether you live in the city or the countryside, you need to do a deep dive on the plants around your property to ensure that your childrenContinue reading “Planting Toxic Plants?”

With the costs associated with gardening, we need to save every penny possible and due to that I’ve compiled a list of places for you to get free or cheap seeds. If you know of any additional places to get seeds, feel free to let me know in an email. Craigslist – Due to manyContinue reading “Free or Cheap Seeds & Plants”

I believe this will be the shortest post that I’ve written thus far, but I want to touch base on this so that you know what to expect should you decide to move from the city to the country with young children or teenagers. You will not be the only one to detox and believeContinue reading “Detoxing City Kids”

One of the recent problems we’ve had to deal with on our homestead is a variety of pests and some people don’t think far enough in advance on how to deal with them and I’ll write this down now so you can prepare ahead of time and learn from our issues. If you move anContinue reading “Dealing with Pests”

For those of you still in the suburban cities, one of the must have status symbols is a lush green lawn. People throw hundreds of dollars at their lawn each month, whether it’s water, chemicals or just time spent doing mowing and upkeep. It’s an absolute waste of money and you shouldn’t feel bad aboutContinue reading “Destroy Your Lawn”

While many individuals are telling people to plant vast gardens right now, my advice goes a bit against the grain. We are living in times where you see inflation, mysterious manufacturing fires, train derailments, shipping delays, and threats of war with various countries. What if what we are living through isn’t the time prior toContinue reading “Invest Preparedness Money Wisely”

Whether you’ve moved from the city onto a homestead, or you are a current homesteader that’s now ready to take on animals, you need to be aware that there are three different positions for animals to take on the homestead. Livestock – These animals are purchased for food production or income to the family andContinue reading “An Animals Place on the Homestead”

In the last few months, I’ve changed the directions of my thinking towards how my sweat equity will affect my great-grandchildren’s future. For myself and my husband, I don’t believe we will see the majority of the trees on the properties produce abundance yet I believe my grand and great-grandchildren will see them produce foodContinue reading “Newbie Homestead Projects”

If you don’t own your home or you live on a small piece of property, chances are high that your area is zoned (R) for residential which means no agricultural production. In some suburban communities, there has been a public fight to allow individuals the right to at least put in annual gardens, drought resistantContinue reading “Alternative Gardening Locations”

We have to expect that on the homestead, it will be a matter of us outsmarting animals that have a natural instinct to be sneaky and kill livestock without remorse. Predators don’t hunt out of vengeance; they hunt out of a need for sustenance and your goats or chickens simply fits that bill. Unfortunately, manyContinue reading “Predators on the Homestead”