Self-Sufficiency

Skills, random projects, and seasonal tips for your daily homestead life.

Child learning to walk outside

Try, try, try, try, try, try again

The key to mastery is through effort and trying hard.

Alex building a frame with 2x4s

Use it or lose it

When you don’t practice skills you have learned, they will fade in your mind.

June 14 - Growing a garden takes work

Putting in the reps

Working at something again and again is how you get better.

mar 8 homestead chores

Lifelong vacation or lifelong chores

Running a homestead is a big commitment. There will always be something you need to do. Farm chores, animals, even kids. A lifetime of chores.

March 1 2025 - Have a vision

Why do this?

Why do we even get into this lifestyle? It’s certainly not easy. A life of homesteading is very consuming.

February 22 2025 - Can you do this

Can you do this?

Thursday night, we spent the evening teaching some other members of our church how to make sourdough bread.

February 8 2025 - Meeting neighbors

Have you met the neighbor?

The first thought for most of us going off-grid or homesteading is can I get enough land to get away from the people.

February 1 2025 - Back to basics

Going back to the basics

Part of being self-sufficient is learning to do without things. Doing without the store. Go without the Amazon subscription and two-day shipping.

Our Story

Johnson Family

Life is unpredictable, but your family doesn’t have to be unprepared for it. We’ve traded the modern hustle for a life of purpose and resilience on our North Idaho homestead.

Our goal is simple: to help you master the skills that build a resilient home, so you can lead your family with confidence.

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