Homesteader News

Here you will find recorded the building of this beautiful homestead complete with solar and wind power, rain-water collection cisterns, a strawbale house and even a wolf or two to try to blow it all down! This adventure has not been without its trials but it has indeed been a most wonderful experience. This by far surpasses the plugged-in, city living just chasing your tail trying to make ends meet. The closeness to nature, the clean air and the beauty that surrounds us is so refreshing to the soul.

Humanure- sawdust toilets

by Wretha

"Sit, flush and forget, that’s what most of us do, multiple times a day. We use perfectly good, drinkable, potable water to flush our waste, what a waste it truly is. After we flush, we don’t think about all the water that is used/wasted to process the sewage that is created, chemicals are pumped into our water system, the water we DRINK, so that we can do it all over again. I’m starting to sound pretty green aren’t I?

Honestly that’s not the reason why I stopped using a flush toilet system. For us, it was a case of necessity. We were moving completely off grid, building a cabin, there is little water, at least little water to waste on flushing a toilet. We had no well, no septic system, no flush toilets. We needed a good way to deal with our toilet waste so I started researching how to eliminate our eliminations."

Letter from LaMar

Hi folks, welcome to Homesteader News!

For those of you that don’t know me- my name is Lamar Alexander and I am a long-time off-grid homesteader. My grandparents and parents moved across the west in horse drawn wagons and settled on untamed land at the foot of the high Uintah mountains on what is now the Ute Indian Reservation.

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My grandparents raised 11 kids and my parents raised 9 kids through 3 wars and the great depression. Homegrown food, homemade clothes, gardening and farming skills is what kept us alive. Today I live on my parents old homestead in a solar cabin I built with my own two hands. I drink water from a well I drilled. I supply most of my own food from my garden, orchard, and animals I raise. I hunt, fish, trap, play guitar and sing, and make homemade wine.

Grandpa would be proud!

It is my hope that Homesteader News will help to preserve and teach some of these old homesteader skills for our future generations as well as teach some of us old homesteaders about new ways of homesteading like using solar and wind power to make life a little easier.
This newspaper will always be free to the reader and its content will be primarily from reader submissions. We really need you homesteaders, gardeners, and off-gridders to help us out and submit your articles and share your skills and knowledge.
We will accept business ads that are relevant to homesteading to offset some of the cost of publishing but our goal is to be as non-commercial as possible.
I am very interested in how-to articles and simple inexpensive projects and crafts to make homestead life more enjoyable. I will include what I have learned from my homestead and I hope all you readers will submit your articles so this valuable knowledge can be shared and preserved. This is your newspaper and I hope you will help us to make it the finest homesteader newspaper ever printed and something we can all be proud of!

LaMar

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A free online newspaper written by homesteaders for homesteaders! Sponsored by www.simplesolarhomesteading.com Owner- LaMar Alexander

Welcome to our February, 2010 issue!

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Humanure- sawdust toilets

Letter from LaMar

A free online newspaper written by homesteaders for homesteaders! Sponsored by
www.simplesolarhomesteading.com
Owner- LaMar Alexander