Introduction To Homesteading: This introductory lesson provides a foundational understanding of homesteading, exploring its principles, lifestyle, and the vital role of community. While also exploring “A Day in the Life,” gaining insight into daily routines, responsibilities, and the diverse skills required for self-sufficiency.

What Is Homesteading
A Day In The Life
Importance Of Community

Establishing Your Homestead: This lesson guides students through the key steps of establishing a homestead, from defining goals and assessing resources to researching, planning, and taking action. Students will learn how to set realistic objectives, evaluate available assets, and create a strategic plan for success. The lesson also emphasizes the importance of documenting progress, learning from challenges, and sharing insights with the homesteading community.

Define Your Goals
Assess Your Resources
Start Researching
Create A Plan
Put Your Plan Into Action
Document Your Journey

Finances On The Homestead: This lesson explores financial planning and income generation on the homestead, helping students develop strategies for sustainability and profitability. Students will learn how to create a financial plan, identify profitable opportunities, and diversify income streams with over 500 potential revenue ideas. The lesson also covers effective marketing techniques, offering over 100 strategies to promote homestead products and services successfully.

Financial Planning
Making Your Homestead Profitable
500+ Ways To Make Money
100+ Ways To Market

Homesteading Challenges: This lesson addresses the challenges homesteaders face and provides practical solutions for overcoming them. Students will explore common issues, mistakes, and lessons learned from experienced homesteaders. The lesson also covers unique obstacles in urban and suburban settings, strategies for adapting to seasonal changes, and insights into what many homesteaders wish they had known from the start.

Issues And Common Solutions
Urban And Suburban Challenges
Planning For Seasonal Changes
Common Mistakes Homesteaders Make
What Homesteaders Wish They Knew

Livestock & Animals: This in depth lesson explores the role of animals in homesteading, highlighting their benefits for food production, land management, companionship and sustainability. Students will learn how to choose the right livestock based on their homestead’s needs, resources, and goals.

Benefits of Animals and Livestock
Choosing Livestock

Grow Your Own Food: This lesson teaches students how to grow their own food, going in depth into gardening, garden planning, and setting up a functional homestead kitchen. It covers essential gardening techniques and meal preparation from scratch. Students will also explore food preservation methods to create a sustainable, year-round food supply.

Start Your Garden
Making Meals From Scratch
150+ Recipe Ideas From Scratch
Preserving Your Food

Homesteading Skills: This lesson covers a wide range of essential homesteading skills, from basic techniques to advanced practices. Students will learn about agroforestry, silvopasture, alternative cooking methods, animal husbandry, and aquaponics. The lesson also explores blacksmithing, crafting, foraging, wildcrafting, and renewable energy. Students will dive into topics like greenhouse management, hunting, trapping, insect farming, permaculture, seed saving, and breeding. With over 200 homesteading skills and projects, this lesson provides a comprehensive overview of the diverse skills used for a successful, self-sufficient homestead.

Basic Homesteading Skills
Agroforestry & Silvopasture
Alternative Cooking
Animal Husbandry
Aquaponics & Hydroponics
Blacksmithing & Metalworking
Crafting & Arts
Foraging And Wildcrafting
Greenhouses & High Tunnels
Hunting & Trapping
Insect Farming
Permaculture
Primitive Skills
Renewable Energy
Seed Saving & Breeding
Trade Skills
200+ Homesteading Skills
200+ Homestead Projects

Long Term Sustainability: This lesson focuses on long-term sustainability in homesteading, emphasizing the importance of strategic planning for lasting success. Students will learn how to create long-term plans for their homesteads, covering everything from resource management to future growth. The lesson also encourages self-reflection, helping students define what homesteading means to them and how to align their personal values and goals with a sustainable lifestyle.

Long Term Planning
What Homesteading Is To Me

I truly believe in the value of this and I want you to feel the same! That’s why I offer a 100% money-back guarantee. If you complete the book or course and don’t feel like you’ve gained valuable knowledge, found anything useful, or simply aren’t happy with it, I’ll gladly give you a full refund. I’ve tried to create something that will genuinely help you on your homesteading journey, whether you’re just starting out, improving the homestead you already have, or dreaming of the day you’ll begin. More than anything, I want you to walk away feeling inspired, empowered, and that your time was well spent. ❤️ Mama Red

Mama Red

A Little More About Me & Writing This Course

I’m not a lifelong expert with decades of experience in every aspect of homesteading, but I am deeply passionate about it. Over the years, I’ve dedicated countless hours to researching, documenting, planning, and expanding my knowledge. During this time, I was a poultry breeder, caring for over 350 chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl, and quail at any given time. I’ve also been a serious prepper (canning, dehydrating, stockpiling, long term food storage, etc.) for more than five years and a vegetable, flower and herb gardener for over 20, all of which naturally align with my love for homesteading.

Three years ago, faced with unexpected life changes, I made a bold decision. I left my existing farm, my home state, and everything familiar to start over in the middle of nowhere in Western New York. I purchased a 10 acre abandoned farm and homestead and began rebuilding it from the ground up, all on my own as a single woman. Anyone with experience in homesteading, farming, or DIY projects knows the magnitude of such an endeavor. It has been both a challenge and an adventure.

As I prepared for and embarked on this new journey, I searched for an affordable, easy-to-follow, and informative homesteading course to help me plan for my new land and all of the ideas I had in mind. But I never found one that truly met my needs. So, taking all of my years of research and planning, I decided to create the resource I wished I had. Rather than letting all that time, effort, and knowledge go to waste, I put it into a format that others could benefit from, just as much as I did. I still continue to use it daily.

I may not be an expert, yet… but I’ve poured my heart and a ridiculous amount of time into these lessons, and I believe anyone can benefit from them. Even if you’re already well versed in homesteading, you might discover new ideas to expand your homestead, explore additional income streams, or reignite a passion that may have faded.

Author Bio

Hi, I’m Tameron! AKA: Mama Red. I’m the owner of Bella Mia Farmstead, a woman owned heirloom seed business located in Western New York. I enjoy sharing with you my love of gardening, nature, animals, being self-sustainable and homesteading. I offer advice on growing beautiful things, the amazing benefits of herbs and write about my love for my pets and chickens (I have a flock of my own, along with quail). I manage all aspects of the business myself, with the exception of my two lovely girls who think they’re my supervisors 🙄 Bella (Great Pyrenees) and Willow (Australian Shepherd) along with my two other dogs Ryder and Koda (German Shepherds), and my three cats (June, Uller and Taz). Bella Mia Farmstead translates to “My Beautiful Farmstead”. I hope you enjoy our products, courses, articles and the website as much as I enjoy sharing this journey with you. I’m off to go play in the dirt… 🧤💐❤️