Want to know if you’re cut out as a homesteader?
These hints will help you determine if homesteading is for you:
- You roam the countryside gathering ideas for your ideal plot of land.
- You’ve got a raw plot of land and you can see what it’ll be…someday.
- You read and research chickens.
- You’ve got chickens, but there is always room for another chicken.
- Outdoors is just another room in your home.
- You believe all food scraps are useful for the garden.
- You know that anything that can be foraged should be foraged. Which can also reduce the grocery bill and most green things were meant to be eaten anyways.
- You own work/outdoor clothes, and there are more of them than dress-up clothes.
- You know the names of trees and how quickly each burns in a wood burning fireplace.
- You have trees orange taped and up for the chopping block.
- You have plans for a woodshed.
- You’d rather not consume berries, eggs or produce that is perfectly uniform and lacking bugs and dirt.
- You can identify outdoor sounds like a neighbour dog barking at yours across the river. Of a whiny bald eagle pair. Of a honking geese community. Of twittering robins. And knocking woodpeckers.
- You know the sky: the clouds that say a beautiful summer day, the clouds that speak of a brewing storm, or an overcast day that brings no rain.
- You approach commercial kitchens and fish shops for scraps: compost & fertilizer for your garden.
- And the most likely sign that you already are a homesteader: the state of your feet. Enough said.









And you know you’re a modern homesteader when you’re on YouTube and the internet to learn all that homesteading jazz that you DIDN’T get taught as a child from suburbia…
Here are my favourite resources:
- Blogs I love:
- Hello Homestead
- Better Hens and Gardens (aka Bramblestone Farms)
- Community Chickens
- The Prairie Homestead
- Attainable Sustainable
- Fresh Eggs Daily
- YouTube Channels I love:
- Guildibrook Farms
- Farmhouse on Boone
- Magazines I love:
- Capper’s Farmer
- Mother Earth News
- easy edible gardening
- Garden Making
- Books I love:
- The Prairie Homestead by Jill Winger
- Groundbreaking Food Gardens by Niki Jabbour
- Recipe Books I love:
- The Prairie Homestead by Jill Winger
- Mennonite Girls Can Cook by Herald Press
- The Canning Kitchen by Amy Bronee
- Love & Lemons Cookbook by Jeanine Donofriothe
- Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon
- The All New Purity Cookbook: A Complete Book of Canadian Cooking

🙂 thank you!
What a lovely post!