New-fashioned homesteaders are involved in

• Growing food including raising livestock in non-factory-like conditions; worm farms; composting; preserving food including canning, freezing, dehydrating and fermenting; bread-making; cheese-making; wine and beer making;
• Knitting, sewing, weaving, natural dyes;
• Construction using locally-sourced and sustainable building materials, such as straw-bale, earthbag, adobe, rammed earth, bamboo;
• Greywater, rain catchment, rain gardens, swales, and other water conservation techniques;
• Non-petroleum-based transportation including bicycling, walking, biofuels and electric vehicles;
• Non-petroleum-based energy like solar and wind power;
• Local currency, bartering, work trading;
• Foraging, gleaning, scavenging, reusing, repurposing;
• Providing habitat for indigenous insect (and in some cases animal) populations within our food gardens;
• Avoiding the use of pesticides and artificial or chemical fertilizers

Homestead Sweet Home