The Happy Homesteader

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We have the wonderful privilege of now being a part of the Official Farm-Dreams Blogging community and will be posting here on Tuesdays each week. We wanted to tell all of you a little bit about ourselves and what our plans are for our Homestead and what you can expect to see here on The Happy Homesteader Blog each week.

We are a family of 4, mom and dad and two small children,…

Without getting too far off on a tangent regarding Permaculture I wanted to take just a few moments and list some of the reasons why I believe the subject of Permaculture is not a new idea. Although Bill Mollison developed the primary ethics and principles of Permaculture in the not too distant past along with work…

In some of my previous posts at our website I have referenced Permaculture and linked to some videos that have shown the tremendous benefits of applying Permaculture techniques on a large scale. We do not have a large piece of land and likely will not for the foreseeable future so why do I think Permaculture is so important? Well, it is for a wide variety of reasons but primarily because it focuses on offsetting and repairing the…