We fancy ourselves the only site on the web providing you with a collection of unique how to homestead videos to stream embed or download. No longer relegated to the rural sphere, homesteading can be done anywhere and we are here to show you how. We also love hearing from you so add to the homesteading conversation anytime.
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I am in love with your website and homestead! Upon exploring this site, I have found that you have the same interests as myself; I will be coming here again to learn some more about your way of life (something I dream of).
I like the idea of your website and I even like the style you have. The music in your videos is generally pretty likable too. However, you convey very little information in each section of this site. Like the one about pie. What do we learn about homesteading? “Go pick some berries!” What about the crust? What about the stuff you mix to get that sauce with the berries? What about if we don’t live in San Fransisco? It doesn’t seem like you care much about those details and it took you about two minutes to tell me that sometimes you can find free berries if you know where to look. The same goes for the Kombucha video too. It’s cute as shit, but both videos border on self-congratulatory masturbation. Don’t get me wrong, I ALMOST gave you a StumbleUpon thumbs up because I really like the idea of teaching people about the basics of life. I’m bothering to write this because I think you can do better. Even if you just post a few links at the bottom of each page to some resources like recipes or maps to find berries or a retailer that sells Kombucha mushrooms. Then you can keep the cute videos or whatever you want to do. That’s all I’m really asking for. Don’t call it a “how-to” site if you aren’t going to even start to flesh it out the tiniest bit. Please feel free to remove this comment after you’ve read it. I hate to bring the bad energy, but I feel like someone needed to say it.
Maybe I’m missing the point. I don’t know.
Hello Jeff,
Thanks for your comments. They are very much appreciated. Your advice regarding links is something we are already doing. Each video has at least one link to a site that provides you with plenty of information in text form that gives you the details you need to accomplish your homestead passion. Our videos are meant to inspire– to show how fun homesteading is, and that anyone can do it. The internet is a great tool for information, we provide a bit to get you going and link you to some sites we think are better at detail.
I love the new lay out but no more Fungus Among Us?
Ok now my family has homestead with there home’s so how can I ???
hello from the sonoma county homestead future project…if i could stop commuting long enough to feed my kombucha and kefir soda…keep the ‘coons outta the compost and the chickens laying, life would be more centered. for now, melinda, i like to live vicariously through your site. let me know when you are down south. and apologies for dropping off the radar during a trying summer. you are doing something fabulous.!
this website is a joyful contribution; of course there are ways to make it better, easier, more clear, whatever; life is a lot of work and it will never be perfect. the fact that it is up and people care enough to make comments is great. I loved this sentence from Jeff’s review in March: “It’s cute as shit, but both videos border on self-congratulatory masturbation.” Could be worse! Oh, as for berries, it really is a local thing, but in San Francisco, try the Presidio – especially the field at Fort Scott; in Marin, they are all over from Sausalito to Kentfield to Bolinas and Point Reyes. Be in touch with the seasons of where you live and you will find the food that grows wild. Myself, I’m astounded by the folks in the East Bay who are finding chanterelle mushrooms so easily… Carry on… C
just received a packet of your marigold seeds. indeed they are marigolds, but the latin name you have designated them by is wrong.
Tagetes is the genus for marigold.
Calendula officianlis is calendula!
I grew up on 5 acres in what “was” rural Minnesota. We had little money but we did have 5 gardens, (one was totally potatoes), and fruit trees. We bought a little meat and canned and preserved “everything” and even made out own Ketchup and Sourkrout. I am not a young person. I read the Briarpatch Books, Mother Earth News, Coevelolution Quarterly, and all of the rest. I know this will be blastpheme but…. wouldn’t the problems this earth is facing all be totally negated or at least hugely reduced if there were a huge reduction in human population as that is the cornerstone of the problems?? There are about 77 Million “more” people on the earth every 12 months, and the people killed by the Indonesion Tsunami were all replaced in just a bit over “24 Hours”. (i.e. One Day). How come no clergy, politition or scientist mentions this as a problem ??? The need for energy, food, potable water, treating pollution, etc, etc, cannot be filled of there is always more demand on a finite planet.
I think you’re on to something wonderful here. Hope to come back in a few months and learn how to make soy milk and spin yarn on a drop spindle. Lots of love to you all; thanks for your hard work and spirit.
I was looking for website products and found your site. I was totally captivated by your videos. This is an excellent place for people to learn how to preserve things. I have to honestly say that I have never heard of humanure before.
It looks like you have found a great niche and combined a simpler world with the high paced Internet world in an excellent way.