Children can be useful for measuring post hole depth
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Real Food and Food Preservation Websites
Cultures for Health – This is where I buy my cultures for cheesemaking, fermenting (milk kefir and water kefir), and sourdough. They have cheese molds, fermenting vessels, bail top bottles and just about anything else you need for home food fermenting and culturing. They also have a great library of online tutorials and lots of troubleshooting tips.
Weston A Price Foundation – Real food information based on the work of Weston A Price, focusing on nutrient-dense whole foods and the vital fat-soluble activators found exclusively in animal fats.
Grocery Geek – Feel overwhelmed by all the garbage that’s in our food supply? Grocery Geek helps sort through the hype to help you find foods without added chemicals.
Eat Nourishing – Real Food recipe sharing site.
Recipes to Nourish – Real food and holistic health.
Herb and Spice Blend Recipe Cheat Sheet – never buy another spice mix again. Buy in bulk, mix your own and save money.
SB Canning – Excellent site for all things canning, plus some other food preservation techniques. Creative recipes, how-to’s, great photos – wonderful stuff!
PickYourOwn.org – where to find local food, and what to do with it once you find it
Food in Jars – blog about canning and preserving.
Bulk Natural Food and Product Suppliers
UNFI – United Natural Foods – UNFI is the leading independent national distributor of natural, organic and specialty foods and related products including nutritional supplements, personal care items and organic produce, in the United States.
Country Life Natural Foods – Country Life Natural Foods is a wholesale and retail distributor of natural, organic and vegetarian foods as well as a resource for information that promotes physical, mental and spiritual health.
Frontier Natural Products Co-op – Frontier Natural Products Co-op specializes in natural and organic products. They feature a wide variety of organic herbs and spices and aromatherapy products.
Azure Standard - “We specialize in natural, organic, earth-friendly foods and products. We deliver directly to customers, buying clubs and retailers by semi truck and UPS.”
Gardening Websites
Dave’s Garden and Garden Watchdog – Dave’s Garden is a large gardening community with info on all things gardening. The Garden Watchdog page offers customer reviews of 7,373 mail order gardening companies.
Your Garden Show – An online gardening community with lots of information and video tutorials. You can find my garden at The Common Sense Homestead.
GardenWeb - Online gardening community.
The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening page – best seed starting dates, best planting dates, plant guides, hardiness zone maps – lots of good reference info.
Local Food Websites
Local Harvest – “Find farmers’ markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.”
Pick Your Own - “This website provides local listings of pick your own (also called U-pick or PYO) farms in the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and other countries.”
Sustainable Table – “Sustainable Table’s “Eat Local, Buy Local, Be Local” section is designed to help consumers learn what’s happening in the local movement, and to better understand the concept of local food.”
Eat Wild - “Your source for safe, healthy, natural and nutritious grass-fed beef, lamb, goats, bison, poultry, pork, dairy and other wild edibles.”
Wisconsin Specific Sites
Rio Creek Orchards – Our orchard specializes in offering a wide variety of delicious fruit at affordable prices. Families throughout the region place their trust in our products, and we’d be pleased to count you among them. Also, whether you operate a restaurant or a market, Rio Creek Orchards has the fresh fruit to suit your needs.
Wisconsin Dairy Artisan Network – Great site listing specialty diary producers/cheesemakers around Wisconsin. “The Wisconsin Dairy Artisan Network assists current and future Wisconsin dairy food artisans through education, promotion of the craft and regulatory advocacy. The network is composed of dairy artisans and farmstead producers with support from industry organizations. ”
Natural Health Websites
Earth Clinic - From their site: “full of effective, home-tested, and community-vetted remedies and cures proven through years on this site and in the homes of commonsense families for centuries.” – commonsense families – gotta love that!
Heal Thyself – This is a great online community that promotes knowledge sharing and healing through traditional foods.
The Natural Living Site – information about traditional foods, herbs, natural living skills, homesteading, animals, alternative healing and spirituality.
Food As Medicine -Todd Caldecott, a medical herbalist and practitioner of Ayurveda shares insights for using food to promote healing.
Online Nurseries w/ Cold Tolerant and Heirloom Trees and Shrubs
Cold Stream Farms – Cold Stream Farm is a wholesale / retail bare root tree and shrub nursery in Michigan. Not fancy, but great prices and very good quality.
St. Lawrence Nurseries – Northern Climate Fruit and Nut Trees – The plants and trees grown here at St. Lawrence Nurseries are managed by organic methods. Because we are committed to preserving the health of the air, water, and soil, we use no herbicides, fungicides or pesticides. Instead of artificial fertilizers, we rely on mulch, manure, and cover crops to boost soil and plant health. Rather than using tractors, we hand-plant, hand-weed and hand-dig all of our stock. Our trees, inspected twice a year by authorities from the New York State Department of Agriculture, have always remained exceptionally disease-free.
Oikos Tree Crops – The most genetically diverse nursery I’ve found. “There are over 15,000 species of plants that have been used for food by man. Only 150 of these are commercially cultivated. There are over 10,000 apple varieties. There is only a few dozen that are commercially grown. All new varieties come from seeds. This is true with annual plants as well as trees and shrubs. If you are interested in creating, preserving and expanding the limits of new food plants then having trees and shrubs grown from seed is the only way to increase genetic diversity.”
Homestead Animal Websites
Backyard chickens – BackYardChickens has become the #1 destination for peeps looking for information on raising chickens in any urban, suburban, or rural backyard!
General Homesteading Websites
Homestead.org
Countryside Magazine
Backwoods Home Magazine
Mother Earth News - MOTHER EARTH NEWS provides wide-ranging, expert editorial coverage of organic foods, country living, green transportation, renewable energy, natural health and green building.
Homemaking Sites
Tipnut.com – Your Online Guide To The Crafty & Clever
Survivalism/Preparedness Sites
