by No Ordinary Homestead | Mar 11, 2022 | Garden, Homesteading Life
Are you looking for tips on how to prepare your garden for spring? Spring is arguably the favorite season for gardeners as it offers them an opportunity to start afresh. Most gardening enthusiasts spend their late winter/early spring preparing their gardens for the...
by Tiffany | May 6, 2020 | Food, Garden, Homesteading Life
We went down to the orchard today and harvested about 22 pounds (10 kilos) of mirabelle plums from our trees. We really should have harvested them a week or so earlier, but we simply haven’t had the time. Thank God we found Nico, our new farm hand, when we did...
by No Ordinary Homestead | Oct 10, 2019 | DIY, Homesteading Life, House & Home
Managing waste is an everyday thing. Almost everything we do generates waste, and we need to make a constant effort to reduce it. Our tips can help you to minimize waste easily and also help you to maintain a garden waste and junk free life. Stop using plastic bags...
by Tiffany | Sep 3, 2015 | Europe, Expat Life, Germany, Homesteading Life, House & Home, So You Want to Move to Germany, Travel
From time to time, I get interesting emails from readers like you. Sometimes they’re about recipes found here on No Ordinary Homestead. And sometimes they’re questions about getting a visa to live in Germany (which I really know very little about). And...
by Tiffany | Aug 26, 2015 | DIY, Homesteading Life, House & Home
Living off the grid is the dream of many people in the U.S. I can tell you that I have thought about it many times. Imagine not having to pay a dime for electricity, water, or heat. Sounds great, right? But it’s not entirely true… while you would not have...
by Lara Anderson | May 14, 2014 | Homesteading Life
You don’t necessarily have to be a hunter-gatherer to live off the land, but if you want to know where your food comes from and what you are eating, you should consider some form of self-sufficiency. Food labels can be misleading In the last few years there...