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Beginner Homesteading/Gardening and Canning Essentials
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items Discover simple, step-by-step guides to growing your own food, starting a vegetable garden, and building self-sufficiency with practical tips.
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Homesteading/Sustainable Living Must Haves
Green Thumb Gardening
Canning/Preservation Needs
Don't be a Chicken, Get those Chickens
Homesteading/Sustainable Living Must Haves
Discover the essentials for a self-sufficient, sustainable lifestyle, whether you dream of a country homestead or practice eco-friendly habits right at home. These must-haves include tools, resources, and simple daily swaps that help you save money, ...
Super absorbent, durable and high-quality reusable cloths. When I was looking for zero waste, these were a perfect fit.
Reusable Paper Towels
Keeps that butter fresh and ready to use at all times.
Butter Crock
A must-have to help processor foods in order to either can or save.
Food Processor
Use for fruits, meats and nuts to preserve your foods for winter months.
Dehydrator
If you are processing your garden growth, you will need a cutting board!
Wooden Cutting Boards | Butcher Block Boards
Another need to help you process and preserve your home grown foods.
Knife Set
If you are packaging meet or anything else for that matter, you need one of these.
Vacuum Sealers & Accessories
Homestead and sustainable living must have, for cooking. Durable and last literally forever!
Cast Iron Skillet
Great book to help you use what you have to make healthier options as well as to cook and bake from scratch.
The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods to Make
The way this helps you use what you have to heal your body and keep your home pest and varment free is just amazing! I love this!
Forgotten Home Apothecary: 250 Remedies
Green Thumb Gardening
Start your growing journey with confidence! This section spotlights beginner-friendly tools, guides, seeds, and supplies tailored for busy families and new gardeners. Find easy instructions for planning, planting, and nurturing a thriving vegetable o...
This takes the stress out of knowing when it's the best time to plant and what needs to be done! Plug in where you live and it tells your all the information that you need to know and then just plug in what you plan to plant and the rest is so easy! ...
Seedtime - Best Free Garden Planner and Management Tool
This is a need for busy families! I know it has saved my garden many of times, when we get home late and fail to water! A must have for sure!
Electronic Water Timer
A good pair of gloves is key when you are busy in the garden on a daily basis!
Gardening Gloves
I like these because they take up less room and they also expand quite a ways.
Expanding Garden Hose
A hose reel is a good thing to have, especially if you are super organized and like to have things in their place, or if your husband mows a lot and you don't want him to run your hose over!
Hose Reels
A permanent staple in a garden! I just use the old school one, but I've been thinking about mounting one on a post for better coverage! However, you choose to go about it, a sprinkler is a must have!
Sprinklers
Gardening tools are a need when you are tending to a garden. That is if your kids don't relocate them all the time!
Essential Gardening Tools for Thriving Plants - Barebones Living
Sometimes you need these when watering your garden or what you are growing and these are my favorite kind, because they are easy to change spray settings.
Hose Nozzles
If you are going to have a garden, of course you need seeds!! Especially if you want to be sustainable, you will need to start seeds inside long before planting season!
All Vegetable Seeds |Heirloom and Organic
Topsoil helps to feed the existing soil, not an absolute need, but would be good to have, so that you have good soil to plant your vegetables in.
Topsoil
Improves drainage and helps with growth!
Organic Perlite for Plants: Soil Amendment
Potting mix is good for gardens or flower pots!
Potting Soil
Canning/Preservation Needs
Keep your harvests and family favorites fresh all year with these essential canning and preservation supplies. This section gathers safe, mom-approved tools for storing fruits, veggies, and more, with tips to make the process simple and stress free. ...
A canning need to get the job done!
Presto Precise Digital Pressure Canner
We use the heck out of this on a daily basis in the summer months when we are canning! Love it!
Granite Ware Enamel Steel 12-Piece Canner Kit
These are a must! There is nothing that hangs on to those jars better than a pair of canning tongs!
Canning Tongs
Save the mess and just get a funnel! Less waste and makes sure everything goes where you want it to!
Canning Funnels
If you are going to do some canning, you need somewhere to store everything that you preserve. These work amazing!
Shelving
My favorite jars for all things canning!! My go-to jars.
Ball Mason Jars & Lids
Beginner or not, I love this information and how easy it is to understand!! Start here if you are just learning!
How to Can: A Beginner's Guide to Canning Food
Don't be a Chicken, Get those Chickens
Adding backyard chickens is a rewarding step toward self-sufficiency and sustainable living, bringing the whole homesteading vibe home with fresh eggs and endless family fun. Chickens are surprisingly beginner-friendly : they help manage kitchen scra...
Easy water access year-round for your chickens. Great for winter times, to keep water thawed.
Heated 2 Gallon Poultry Drinker
A place to keep eggs and or use to sale your chicken eggs.
Egg Cartons
Have chickens? You have to have a place for them to stay out of the weather, lay you some eggs and rest. If you are going to have chickens, you have to have a coop.
Chicken Coop
Packed full of facts and a great book for the kiddos to learn from, or even adults. Great for homeschooling or teaching a young homesteader.
Chickenology: The Ultimate Encyclopedia
Great for baby chicks and raising them up. Everything you need to take care of them in one place!
ImPECKables Starter Poultry Kit
No more worrying about letting them in and out. Set the timer and it does the work for you! Love the solar panel, no need for running cords or anything like that. Absolutely LOVE this!
Automatic Chicken Coop Door
No fire risk here! This has worked great for us for a couple years now!
Producer's Pride Chicken Coop Brooder and Heater for 10 Birds