Original post @ "What you need for homesteading". If you're interested in more topics like this, please visit my blog @ Vegans Living off the Land
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There are many questions to homesteading, especially since independence is somewhat a frightening concept. Homesteading takes much time to learn the skills and techniques that surrounding gardening, building, and crafting. Perhaps it will take you five to 10 years to become a proficient gardener. Likewise, homesteading is the "old" and "new way" of living; because we can learn from our relatives how to build a home and grow food; but we can also learn from young folks how to coincide sustainably with nature, humans, and technology.
At length, homesteading requires much dedication, investment, creativity, frugality, and resources. But, where do you start? Do I start looking for land for sale? How much time can I invest in building my home? How much time can I invest in growing a garden?
If you see something I missed, please comment below, and I will add it!
Ash (compost)
Axe
Bamboo (posts, stakes)
Barrels (Rain)
Batteries
Battery Charger
Beams (wood posts)
Books (philosophy, instructional, garden, fiction)
Bottles (starting seeds indoors)
Bricks (rock, stone)
Brushes (painting, plastering)
Calculator
Canner (pressure cooker)
Carpenter's Level
Cart (wheelbarrow)
Cellar (cold storage)
Chains
Chainsaw
Chalk line
Cheesecloth
Chicken wire
Clamshell digger (post hole)
Compost (organic)
CONTAINERS (unique gardening)
Cooler (food storing)
Crates (storage)
Cultivator (rototiller)
DC>AC inverter (solar panels)
Decor (outdoor/garden)
Dehydrator
Door (home)
Drill (speed)
Drill bits
Drums (55-gallon)
Duct tape
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Fertilizer (organic)
Forks (garden)
Freezer (cooler, food storage)
Froe
Galvanized screening (sifting)
Garden hose
Generator
Gloves
Goggles (safety)
Greenhouse(s)
Hammer
Handkerchief (cleaning tools)
Hand saw
Knife (utility)
Ladder
Level (carpenters)
Machetes
Mallet (wooden)
Marker pencil
Measuring tape
Mulch
Nails
Organic SOIL
Outdoor Decor
Oven (made from sand, clay, & straw)
Pallets (recycled wood for trellis)
Pencils (marker)
Pickax
Pinch bar
Pitchfork
Plants (vegetable plugs, flowers)
Plastic sheeting (black & Clear)
Pliers
Pocket knife
Poles (posts, beams)
Post hole digger
POSTS (beams)
Pots (Flower, vegetable, herbs)
Pressure Cooker (canner)
Pruning shears
Pulaski
Rain barrels
Rake
Rock minerals (improving soil)
ROCKS (decor, building structures)
Roof structure (metal, shingles, lumber)
Root Cellar (cold storage)
Rototiller
Safety goggles
Sand (for garden & home material)
Saw (hand or chain)
Saw horses
Screens (galvanized)
Shears (pruning)
Sheets (plastic, tarp)
Shovel
SOIL (organic gardening)
Solar panels
SPACE (for gardening)
Spades (digging)
Sponge (finishing interior of home)
Stakes (posts or poles)
Step ladder
String (hemp, rope)
Swanson square
Table (home)
TARP (plastic sheeting)
Tape measure
Trays (starting seeds)
Trellises (Arbors)
Utility knife
Watering system
Windows (home)
Wood mallet
Wood posts (beams for home)
Wood stove
Worms (compost)
Yardstick (ruler)
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For the foundation of the house you may need rocks, bricks, concrete, or gravel. For structure of home (cob walls), you will need clay soil, sandy soil or sand, water, and straw. For roofing, you'll need lumber, poles, boards, and windows. Of course, you'll need glass or windows, doors, hinges, knobs, etc.
Again, if I missed an important tool or material, please comment below and I will add it to the list.
How much money have you invested in homesteading, so far? I have the luxury of borrowing most of my Grandfather's tools and supplies, as well as the space to grow food and build a home. I'm very fortunate for this!
If you're interested in more topics on gardening, homesteading, veganism, and healthy living, please visit my blog @ Vegans Living off the Land
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