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Learning How to Build a Productive Suburban Homestead

Suburban homesteading is a call to satisfy more of your needs with what you have available to you.

Learn ideas for building a productive homestead without being overwhelmed, including designing an efficient homestead, prioritizing tasks and dreams, reducing maintenance, saving your sanity by adopting a positive mindset, making and saving money, and more.

Growing Perennial Crops as a Side Hustle: Would you like to make money from your garden doing something you love? Here are six ways to grow perennial crops as a side hustle.

Would you like to make money from your garden doing something you love? Here are six ways to grow perennial crops as a side hustle.

Four Garden Planning Tools You Need This Year: Are visions of bountiful gardens dancing in your head? Here are four essential garden planning tools to help you kick off your best garden season yet.

Are visions of bountiful gardens dancing in your head? Here are four essential garden planning tools to help you kick off your best garden season yet.

How to Develop the Permaculture Homestead in Phases: Here's how to create a plan that breaks down all your dreams for your permaculture homestead into bite-sized phases of development.

Wondering how to do it all on your permaculture site? Learn how to break down all your dreams into bite-sized phases of development.

The process of designing an efficient site is like putting together a puzzle. By drawing these six maps, you can create a permaculture design that maximizes your efforts for a low-maintenance garden, landscape, or whole site.

By drawing these six maps, you can create a permaculture site design that maximizes your efforts for a low-maintenance garden or landscape.

Would you like to grow food for your family on your own micro homestead? What's stopping you? Here are five myths that keep you from getting started.

Would you like to grow food for your family on your own micro homestead? What’s stopping you? Here are five myths that can keep you from getting started.

Want to be a Micro-Farmer? 6 Tips for Success: Would you like to grow food for your family, but don't know how to start? Here are 6 mistakes the new micro-farmer makes and 6 ways to ensure your success.

Would you like to grow food for your family, but don’t know how to start? Here are 6 mistakes the new micro-farmer makes and 6 ways to ensure your success.

7 Ways to Start a Homestead (Without Being Overwhelmed): If starting a homestead seems overwhelming, this guide will help you bust through doubt and discomfort to achieve your dreams.

Does it seem overwhelming to start a homestead from scratch? This guide will help you bust through doubt and discomfort to achieve your dreams.

How I Started Homesteading

One homesteader’s journey from unfulfilling employment to a life of empowerment and abundance.

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Amy StrossHi, I’m Amy!

I'm the author of
The Suburban Micro-Farm:
Modern Solutions for Busy People
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Join me as I share my permaculture gardening adventures in the suburbs.

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