
Passing On A Homesteading Legacy and Getting Started Homesteading Without Land
02/26/17 • 34 min
In this podcast episode, I share my thoughts on living out the legacy that has been handed down to you, adding to that legacy and then passing it down to future generations. I also share 11 tips for getting started homesteading if you don’t have any or very little land.
Honoring The Homesteading Legacy Behind You and Passing On That Legacy and Yours
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451.
What did the generations before you leave for a legacy? What will YOU leave?
You are the link between your grandparents and grandchildren, don’t take that for granted!
11 Tips For Getting Started Homesteading Without Land
Abraham Lincoln once said, “The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”
What a profound statement from Mr. Lincoln. He obviously recognized the importance of carrying out the task of self-sufficiency and sustainability from a piece of land, and I don’t think by his statement “making a comfortable living” he was only referring to financial gain but rather to provide for oneself and their family all of the necessities of life.
I doubt Mr. Lincoln could ever have imagined a time when most of the skills needed to have a self-sufficient life would be unknown by the majority of the people and thatmany would be in a place where they did not even have a small piece of land to work with.What about those folks?
1. Get Started With Educational Resources
Books
Magazines
Blogs
Podcasts
Youtube
Online Courses
2. Get Started In The Kitchen
Food Preservation
Blanching and Freezing
Canning
Dehydrating
Fermenting
Food Preparation
Learning and practicing food preparation is one of the most important and most often overlooked homesteading skills to develop.
3. Grow Food Without Land
Container Gardening
Indoor Vegetable Gardening
Sprouting Microgreens
Community Gardening
4. Start Composting
Vermicomposting
5. Raise Small Livestock Without Land
Rabbits
Quail
6. Practice Frugal Living
7. Hunting and Fishing
Small Game
Large Game
8. Foraging
Edible Weeds
Mushrooms
Berries
Fruit
Nuts
9. Make Your Own Herbal Medicines
The Herbal Medicine-Maker’s Handbook
10. Practice Skill Development
11. Build And Utilize A Homesteading Community
In this podcast episode, I share my thoughts on living out the legacy that has been handed down to you, adding to that legacy and then passing it down to future generations. I also share 11 tips for getting started homesteading if you don’t have any or very little land.
Honoring The Homesteading Legacy Behind You and Passing On That Legacy and Yours
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451.
What did the generations before you leave for a legacy? What will YOU leave?
You are the link between your grandparents and grandchildren, don’t take that for granted!
11 Tips For Getting Started Homesteading Without Land
Abraham Lincoln once said, “The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”
What a profound statement from Mr. Lincoln. He obviously recognized the importance of carrying out the task of self-sufficiency and sustainability from a piece of land, and I don’t think by his statement “making a comfortable living” he was only referring to financial gain but rather to provide for oneself and their family all of the necessities of life.
I doubt Mr. Lincoln could ever have imagined a time when most of the skills needed to have a self-sufficient life would be unknown by the majority of the people and thatmany would be in a place where they did not even have a small piece of land to work with.What about those folks?
1. Get Started With Educational Resources
Books
Magazines
Blogs
Podcasts
Youtube
Online Courses
2. Get Started In The Kitchen
Food Preservation
Blanching and Freezing
Canning
Dehydrating
Fermenting
Food Preparation
Learning and practicing food preparation is one of the most important and most often overlooked homesteading skills to develop.
3. Grow Food Without Land
Container Gardening
Indoor Vegetable Gardening
Sprouting Microgreens
Community Gardening
4. Start Composting
Vermicomposting
5. Raise Small Livestock Without Land
Rabbits
Quail
6. Practice Frugal Living
7. Hunting and Fishing
Small Game
Large Game
8. Foraging
Edible Weeds
Mushrooms
Berries
Fruit
Nuts
9. Make Your Own Herbal Medicines
The Herbal Medicine-Maker’s Handbook
10. Practice Skill Development
11. Build And Utilize A Homesteading Community
Previous Episode

Pastured Pork For Free Or For Profit
In this episode of the Modern Homesteading Podcast, Kelly and Troy McClung guest host again. The core of the discussion is how to raise hogs on your homestead for free or for profit. Kelly and Troy detail how they raise pastured pork on their homestead and how it is a valuable revenue stream to support their homesteading expansion endeavors.
They explain how you can turn a profit by raising 3 hogs and selling 2 of them to customers.
Troy breaks down his feed costs for the last year and explains how his hogs finished for processing.
All of this data is explained and the profit margin is illustrated.
Other topics include:
updates on their homestead – redtoolhouse.com
Ordering broilers for the spring
Not talking about homeschooling (which they do anyway)
Why it is so fun to raise pigs
You can find more information about their pastured pork profit summary on their youtube channel at Ep 14: Get Paid to Raise Pigs on Your Homestead or read about their homesteading endeavors at redtoolhouse.com
Next Episode

Thoughts On Hugelkultur, Food Forests, Aquaponics and Other Popular Food Growing Methods
On today’s podcast episode 58 I give my thoughts on a few popular food growing methods that seem to be the hot topics in homesteading today. Are these methods something you should be doing or are they just a shiny object that looks good on the surface but have no place on your homestead?
Some of the food growing methods I will be talking about are:
Hugelkultur – a composting process employing raised beds constructed from decaying wood debris and other compostable biomass plant materials. The process helps to improve soil fertility, water retention, and soil warming, thus benefiting plants grown on or near such mounds.
Food Forests – a low-maintenance sustainable plant-based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines, and perennial vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans. Making use of companion planting, these can be intermixed to grow in a succession of layers, to build a woodland habitat.
Aquaponics – Any system that combines conventional aquaculture with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment. In an aquaponic system, water from an aquaculture system is fed to a hydroponic system where the by-products are broken down by nitrifying bacteria initially into nitrites and subsequently into nitrates, which are utilized by the plants as nutrients, and the water is then recirculated back to the aquaculture system.
Straw Bale Gardening – Simply a different type of container gardening. The main difference is that the container is actually the straw bale itself, held together with two or three strings, the outside crust of the bale serves as the container. Once the straw inside the bale begins to decompose, the straw becomes “conditioned” and ready to plant.
Tower Gardens – a vertical, aeroponic growing system, allows you to grow up to 20 vegetables, herbs, fruits, and flowers in less than three square feet.
Wicking Beds – a garden bed with a waterproof lining that holds a reservoir of water at the bottom from which water is drawn upwards like a wick to the surface of the bed.
Gutter Gardens – pieces of rain gutters as long pots to be used in order to utilize spaces that normally aren’t used for growing like along fences and up walls.
Deep Mulch Gardening – “Back To Eden” Method – uses layers of mulch to crush weeds, keep the soil moist and add organic matter.
Herb Spirals – A raised bed built into a spiral upward creating a variety of microclimates that accommodate a variety of herbs.
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