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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.

Modern homesteading is the act of transforming a household from a unit of consumption to a unit of production. Here are 5 reasons why homesteaders in the suburbs are making the switch.

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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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