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The Unbound Blog
Welcome to our blog! Here, you’ll find recipes for herbal remedies, chicken keeping, gardening tips, DIYs, and all the tips, tricks, lessons, and skills you’ll need to manage a homestead and become more self-sufficient. Whether you’re new to this lifestyle or you’ve been doing it for years, we hope you find our content entertaining as well as educational.
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DIY Fire Starters
This year, we’ve started a new tradition of giving only handmade gifts to family and friends. We have a large family, and in years past...
Dec 23, 20223 min read
DIY Firewood Tote
If you use a wood stove or fireplace to heat your home in the winter, a firewood tote is essential. For us, we have wood stacked on the...
Dec 5, 20222 min read
DIY Chicken Treat Ornaments
Tis’ the season to “peck the halls” and no self-respecting homesteader can consider the halls officially decked until the coop is...
Dec 2, 20222 min read
The Simplest DIY Chicken Water Heater
It's that time of year again when temperatures at night dip well below freezing, and we are fast approaching a time when even the daytime...
Nov 21, 20223 min read
15 Ways You Can Become More Self Sufficient Today
The term ‘self-sufficient’ has been floating around for years, but as we’ve all watched the world descend farther and farther into chaos,...
Aug 21, 202212 min read
Farm, Hobby Farm, Homestead, Farmstead, What's the Difference?
I was scrolling through one of my Facebook homesteading groups the other day and I saw a post from a girl who said something along the...
Jul 8, 20226 min read
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Your Kitchen Scraps
It’s a sad reality, that as a society we are incredibly wasteful creatures. The amount of waste created every day is staggering. Our...
Jul 1, 20225 min read
Why You Should Be Raising Mealworms for Your Chickens
Have you ever gone to do a DIY or follow a Pinterest pin that looks completely idiot-proof only to spend hours creating an epic fail?...
Apr 13, 20226 min read
Are You Concerned About Potential Food Shortages?
I’m going to deviate today from my normal content and take a little time to talk to you all about the possibility of coming food...
Apr 6, 20225 min read
DIY Cleaning Products to Kick off Spring Cleaning
Spring has officially sprung, at least on the calendar if not in Colorado. And one thing even those of us who hate cleaning tend to do is...
Mar 29, 20225 min read
A Spring Equinox (Ostara) Celebration
Last Sunday marked the Spring Equinox, also known as Ostara in the Wiccan/Pagan world. For the most part, I shy away from organized...
Mar 21, 20222 min read
3 DIY Ways to Test Your Garden Soil
A good gardener can make it look as though growing is as easy as dropping seeds into the ground and adding water. The reality however is...
Mar 7, 20227 min read
How to Start Your Own Worm Farm
The snow may still be falling, but if you have dreams of spring garden grandeur and a bountiful fall harvest it’s time to bring those...
Feb 18, 20224 min read
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