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  • Start Here
  • About Us
  • Articles
    • Animals
      • Rabbits
      • Chickens
      • Goats
      • Beekeeping
      • Pigs
    • Garden
      • Herbal Academy
      • Beginner Gardening Course
      • Monthly Planting Guide
      • Resources + Information
      • ‘How to grow’ series
      • Seasonal Eating + Growing
      • Food Forest Gardening
    • From Scratch Food
      • Sourdough
      • Dehydrating
      • Preserving
      • Fermenting
      • Recipes
      • Woodstove Cooking
    • Homestead Anywhere
      • Join the Revolution!
      • 33 Traditional Skills
      • Books Every Homesteader Should Own
    • Green Living
      • Plastic Free Gifts – Ideas for all ages!
      • Herbal Academy
      • Our Plastic Free Journey
    • Home & Finance
      • Start a Blog
      • Frugal Living
      • Make Your Own
        • Soap, Skin Care and Cleaning products
        • Craft
        • DIY
    • Christmas
  • Products
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    • My account
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Dana

Dana is a homesteading, homeschooling mama to 3, based in the south of New Zealand. She is a Certified Ketogenic Living Coach, and natural wellness expert, as well as a Registered Nurse, with post grad training in mothers and babies. She has struggled with infertility and PCOS and conceived all 4 babies naturally. Dana is passionate about natural health and gentle parenting. With a background in well child / baby nursing she loves sharing what she knows with mamas, mamas-to-be and mama-want-to-be's. She enjoys getting out in the garden, or just sitting at the beach in the sun. Dana also blogs about fertility and pregnancy at naturalearthymama.com.
if you are starting a homestead, or want to raise animals these are the best easy animals for beginners to raise in your backyard or on a smallholding or farm. #homesteading #farmlife #piwakawakavalley

The 5 Best Farm Animals for Beginners to Raise

Growing a food forest is a great way to use permaculture to ensure you have a sustainable, organic, perennial food production space in your backyard. We include 5 steps to creating a food forest at your place.

Backyard Food Forest Layout – 5 Easy Steps to A High Production Food Forest

Herbal medicine is the foundation of almost all of our modern medicines, and when practised wisely by a skilled practitioner, it can be just as effective, if not more so.  There are many benefits of herbal medicine, here we will explore the top 7 benefits of using home remedies, as well as some of the risks associated with using traditional herbal medicines. #naturalremedies #herbalmedicine #piwakawakavalley

7 Benefits of Herbal Medicine: The risks and benefits of home remedies

How to hatch chicken eggs successfully with an egg incubator in 5 easy steps. #raisingchickens #backyardchickens #piwakawakavalley

How to hatch eggs at home without incubator (and with one) in 5 Easy Steps

Incubating Eggs Part Two – Disaster on the Egg Front!

Growing a vegetable garden is the first step in self sufficiency, food security and knowing where you food comes from.

Why should you grow your own vegetables: 5 Convincing Reasons to Grow Your Own Vegetables

This very simple, 3 ingredient body butter will have your skin singing. It is ultra moisturizing and hypoallergenic.

How To Make Your Own Body Butter: Luxurious Body Butter That Your Skin Will Love

Buying a homestead is the dream of many. It does come with its own risks and benefits. If you buy the wrong block of land, you will be stuck with the consequences for a long time to come. It is important to think very carefully before buying a block of land. Buying rural land is very different to buying in the city, and the bigger the plot, the more there is to consider. #piwakawakavalley #homesteading #homestead #rurallife

How to Buy a Homestead – 5 Importants Steps for Buying a Homestead

Foraging for food is super satisfying, but these 5 foods you do not have to travel far to find. In fact you can probably forage from your backyard for this list. It might surprise you that you can eat them, but you can, and they are delicious!

Foraging for food: 5 Surprising Free Foods You Can Forage From Your Yard

Have you put off growing herbs in your garden because you don't know where to start? Here is some tips for beginners to growing your own herbs at home. #herbs #gardening #homesteading

Beginners Guide to Growing Amazing Herbs

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