Homesteading Blogs

By Off Grid Ebert

Homestead Cabin These are the homesteading blogs I read. The blog owners may not know who I am, but I read their posts every day from my Bloglines account, and if you’re interested in sustainable living then you should too!

My Personal Homesteading Blog Subscriptions:

Children in the Corn – The story of a family on their two-acre homestead in Huron County, MI.

Carpe Diem Acreage – The chronicle of a family who has built a new green home and are trying to live a greener and healthier lifestyle.

Animal Escapades – The blog for Leaping Lamb Farm, a 40 acre homestead nestled in Oregon and home to the U-Latch inventors.

Achorn Farm – A family blog about farming in Maine

Applegarth Gardens – Musings on life in the garden, sustainable living, cooking, raising children and living “the good life” in Northwest Washington.

City Boy Starts Farming – What happens when a city boy buys some land and starts living in the country.

Country Couture – Tales of a “countrypolitan” family who left the city to raise three kids on a 20-acre farm.

Fast Grow the Weeds – The journal of an organic garden in SW Michigan.

For Better or Worsted – The knitting, baking, gardening, remove-yourself-from-industrial-food blog.

Freshman Farmer – The story of Andrew Meyers as he starts a CSA farm from scratch.

Going to the Country – Shaun and Amy Jones’s blog about simple living.

The Happy Homesteader – A Mother Earth News blog about homesteading.

Heart Rock Garden – Thoughts and learnings on sustainable homesteading, herbs and organic gardening.

Living the Good Life Blog – The musings of Living the Good Life author and Australian renegade homesteader Linda Cockburn.

Lost on Dragonfly Farm – One family’s attempt to “get thru this thing called life as stress free as they can and with as much laughter as possible”.

Tiny Farm Blog – Organic micro-farming with two acres and some tools.

Mud on the Tracks – In which your typical suburban family with rural aspirations makes it happen.

Way Up High in the Monkey Bread Tree – A blog dedicated to what the authors really believe in: relaxed parenting, children who challenge stereotypes, families that blend cultures, simple farm living, and uninhibited creativity.

Walnut Spinney – Striving for self-sufficiency in a modern world with a homeschooling family of three and a mom who would love to have more spare time to indulge in spinning, knitting, weaving or reading.

Throwback at Trapper Creek – A diary, of sorts, to chronicle the similarities and differences of homesteading on a 1881 farm, in present day.

Seldom Seen Acres – Recipes, simple living and seldom seen acres.

Prairie Roots Blog – Practicing permanence on the great plains of South Dakota.

The Quince Urban Homestead – The story of an urban family as they try to live a more sustainable lifestyle.

That does it for MY list of morning coffee reads. What’s YOUR favorite homesteading blog?

Thanks to Tgauchsin below for introducing us to The Walden Effect. I’m happy to add another great blog to my reading list!

21 Responses to “Homesteading Blogs”

Paul Myatt on Dec 9th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

Thanks for that list Ebert. Ma favorite is

http://www.off-grid.net

They have so much good stuff there. How to save money with renewables, stuff about living in a van (like I do), growing stuff. Check it out!

Paul
Kim on Dec 18th, 2008 at 2:29 am

So excited to see you have me on your list of daily reads. I have bookmarked your site and will be back after the holiday storm
Off Grid Ebert on Dec 18th, 2008 at 2:33 am

Thanks Kim. I really got a kick out of reading about the bad boys Obama and McCain. It makes it easier to put them on the table when they act like that!
Shannon on Dec 28th, 2008 at 12:02 pm

Thanks so much for this list of homesteads blogs. I cant wait to read them.:)
Nicole on Jan 5th, 2009 at 12:56 am

Thanks for all the great links. I am just beginning my adventure into homesteading and all these blogs have great tips and stories.
Much appreciated!
Sundari on Jan 22nd, 2009 at 9:36 pm

I really like the Dervaes family website/blog, at http://www.pathtofreedom.com (click on the Journal link for their blog).

You can also read my blog at http://heirloomgardens.blogspot.com I don’t post every day, but you can subscribe to the blog and receive updates in your inbox!
Tgauchsin on Jan 30th, 2009 at 1:49 pm

Thanks for the links, I can’t wait to start reading them.

My favorite is The Walden Effect.

They describe themselves as “a couple of back-to-the-landers living simply on our 58 acres of swamp and hillside in southwest Virginia…. ‘The Walden Effect’ is a term Mark uses to describe the changes he’s experienced since moving onto the farm. He’s given up television, the fast food life, and even paper towels, and finds that his mind is clearer than it’s ever been before.”

Tg
Becca on Feb 5th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

Thanks for the List, Its a great source, Ill keep coming back to as i have the time so that I can add the blogs to my reading list. The one I make time for everyday is http://a-homesteading-neophyte.blogspot.com

I can’t wait to go over the ones you like and add some if not all to my reading list.
farm mom on Feb 9th, 2009 at 5:23 pm

I just wanted to say how happy I am to be on your list, and I’m adding your wonderful site to my links!
littlejon on Feb 25th, 2009 at 10:35 pm

Glad to see someone else reads the same stuff as me!

Another one I would recommend is http://beartrailfarm.blogspot.com/.

They’re good folks and good friends
Farmer John on Mar 7th, 2009 at 2:31 am

Thank you so much for collecting some great blogs all in one spot. I glean so much information from other peoples stories. This makes it real easy to read a lot of great stuff!!
BeccaWA on Mar 8th, 2009 at 3:06 pm

Thanks for your list. I’ve bookmarked it!

One of my favorite blogs is Jenna Woginrich’s Cold Antler Farm http://coldantlerfarm.blogspot.com/ Her blog is very readable, as she is a writer by trade (she wrote a book about her homesteading experiences: Made from Scratch). It’s heartening to see young people like her give homestead life a try.

Thanks again for your list!
Caity on May 5th, 2009 at 4:28 am

Hey,
These blogs look so interesting! Thank you for compiling this list. Here’s one about homesteading and living sustainably in NYC. Its pretty funny, and has some creative suggestions for homesteading in the city. http://www.greensteadnyc.info

Can’t wait to check these ones out!
ROCKY HUGHES on May 11th, 2009 at 10:13 pm

WOW!!!
this is so cool. my wife and i are in our mid fourties and we both are disabled and trying to find a place off the grid to live. i was a young farmer as a kid and she was as well. now as we get older is all we do is just find our dreams going futher and futher away. it cost so much money to buy land and then build a house and so forth. we have tried to rent a place but there way off the chart for us. but she is in need of peace and quite,she had a brain tumor and now we just count the days down as we wish and wait.i pray for a place where a group of people can live as one large family,not in the same house but in our on little community. i was a chef by trade and i can butcher, and i can do allot of differant things. help me make my wifes dream come true. all i can say is GOD BLESS YOU GUYS THAT HAVE DONE IT…..
Beegirl on May 12th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

Great list! Found you though a Google search! Thanks for sharing!!
Christina Ouellette on May 13th, 2009 at 9:15 pm

Hi, This is my website and blog. It’s new and we’re new to homesteading. I don’t update it everyday but I do every week, thing are pretty busy for me on the farm so everyday is out of the question…at least for the growing season. I hope you like it. I’ve thus far had positive reviews, and I’m always open to suggestions.
Erin on Jul 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 pm

Just found your site! It’s really great information! Thank you for sharing! My husband and I are getting ready to make the transistion from the city life to homesteading in the country… So, thank you for the great resources!
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Issa on Aug 13th, 2009 at 11:04 pm

I searched Google for homesteading blogs and ran across your list. Thanks so much! I’m about to start a homesteading journey of my own, and I look forward to reading everyone else’s great stories.
Amie on Oct 15th, 2009 at 3:12 am

I am so glad to see that someone follows my blog. I am however so that I have not had many interesting posts in the past year. I seem to have gotten distracted with the newest addition to farm… our baby boy. He has been taking up so much of my time I don’t get time to blog but i hope to get back to a routine soon.
Thanks again for following.
Eric on Oct 24th, 2009 at 3:58 pm

Thanks for the links. I have been reading information for quite some time now and almost out of debt so I am building that nest egg and getting ready to take the steps to live sustainable. I am interested at looking at more information regarding self-sustainble communities. does anyone know of a site with good information and conversation regarding the topic? If so please shoot me a line at sustainablemuskegon@yahoo.com

Thanks.

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