pro tip for all of my homesteading/farmcore/sp friends: a lot of the skills and fun things you can do to provide for yourself are historical skills. if you look into homesteading history around the 1800s you will find a ton of stuff that you can still do today. i learn a lot of these things at my job and i’m always delighted when i demonstrate them for the public and people are surprised to realize how easy most of them are to do with a little bit of time!
for example: i know how much most of us adore baking bread from scratch. did y’all know you can make your own butter relatively from scratch as well? all you need is cream from the grocery store and a jar and the ability to shake the shit out of it. a super simplified version of a butter churn.
you can make dyes at home with nothing more than a few choice plants. depending on where you live, of course– here in the south, black walnuts are everywhere, and those make an awesome brown dye with nothing more than some water and the nuts. doesn’t even need a mordant (depending on the fiber of the cloth you’re dying)
you can make your own firestarter or glue with pine sap (which is also useful for a whole host of other things!) and a diy double-boiler (which can be as simple as what i do– an old pot and a few sheets of tin foil)
you can spin your own yarn using the oldest known method of creating fibers: a drop spindle. get yourself some wool from a local farmer or a craft store and get to spinning (just don’t get frustrated when it back-twists!)– there are TONS of tutorials for diy drop spindles out there, too, most of which can be made with things like pencils and old cd’s
there are a ton of other historical skills that may require a bit more tools and research, but they fit right into the niche interests of alot of y’all i see on here talking about providing for yourself and farm skills, that kind of stuff.
things like basket weaving, broom making, canning, knitting and crocheting, hell even making your own rope (not recommended unless you have the patience of a saint), open hearth cooking, simple pottery, quilting, splitting wood and woodworking, chair caning… not to mention the vast doors that open when you get your hands on a bit of simple carpentry experience.
as long as you do your research first, you can do almost anything on your own. we’ve done so in the past of our history and now that we have modern conveniences to make it all easier, what’s stopping us from learning what we want to learn when we can?
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