Homestead and Farm Resiliency: Adaptive Land and Infrastructure Systems ...

A Heavy Duty $6 DIY Rocket Stove

Teen converts bus into off-grid $5600 photovoltaic tiny home

Urban Garden with Michele Margolis

Slow Living Essentials: Comfrey Ointment

Slow Living Essentials: Comfrey Ointment: Comfrey has been of interest to me lately. Besides it's uses as a plant food and compost activator, it is a wonderful, natural healer, p...

Dell: Small Beginnings Part 2.

This spot reflect the concept of big ideas and businesses starting small. No huge multi-million dollar complexes, but in homesteads, basements, bedrooms, garages, tool sheds. Small spaces of innovation that changed our world and economy. Homesteading and cottage industries.

"Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere".

Paul Ryan

Small Beginnings Part 1

This is part of the American innovative spirit. Garages, sheds, basements great businesses rising from small spaces.  Innovative people like Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. It proves you do not need millions of dollars in funding and huge industrial complexes to change and serve the world. Many great ideas began in small places, with little money. Grow a new economy in your homestead and backyard. 

Diversify Your Income

Many people rely only on one main source of income, with sometimes a part-time supplement. But what if that main source disappears through a lay-off or some other adversity. It is wise to have a few back up incomes to fall back on. Do not just focus on one field, but diversify you income with a variety of jobs and income producing activities.