Homestead Hints

Homestead Hints

Old-time common sense ideas to help you maintain and enjoy your country home, garden, landscape and property.

You've probably let the homestead get a bit run-down. Nature's elements are working against you every minute. With the little bit of time that you can spare for work around the house, you need all the help you can get. You need this website!

All of the advice, articles and illustrations that you'll find here have been hidden away on the pages of old farm journals, home and garden magazines and household guide books for more than a century. Back then, without today's time saving technology, it was much more important to find the most efficient way of doing chores. People depended on these hints to get their work done well.

How to Attract Birds in Winter	How to Build a Screen Wall
How to Build a Martin House	Some Useful Contrivances
Make a Portable Firewood Box	How to Carry Firewood
How to Build Stone Fences	How to Burn Wood
How to Carry a Watermelon	How to Cut Firewood
How to Deal with Insects	How to Cut Glass
Make a Simple Smoke House	How to Make Bird Houses
How to Make a Snow Sled	How to Remove Roof Snow
How to Handle Poison Ivy	How to Find the Height of Trees
How to Predict the Weather	How to Measure Wood
Prevent Mice and Rabbits from Barking	How to Shovel