Welcome to Seattle Homestead!
Our Urban Homestead
We formed Seattle Homestead in April 2011 to chronicle the urban gardening and homesteading adventures at our new home in West Seattle. Here’s the quick guide to the site:
Where Should I Start Reading?
- Get To Know the Homestead: More information about our home, what we started with, and where it’s headed.
- Get To Know Us: Learn a bit more about us and our backgrounds.
- Year One: 2011 Homestead Goals: Our first post that details some of our bigger projects for the first year.
- Our Fruit Order – We just purchased apples, blueberries, lingonberries, strawberries, raspberries, and a tea tree.
- See How We Built Our Raised Beds With Sod Walls, cheaply and quickly!
- 6 Reasons Why I Chose to use White Clover as a Living Mulch
- Read Douglas Bullock’s Fruit Tree Recommendations for Seattle.
- 2012 Homestead Goals - Building a huge earthbag wall, getting chickens, hardscaping, and more.
- Seattle Solar Installations – We sat down and did a 30 minute Q&A with Amy from West Seattle Natural Energy, complete with podcast and transcript.
- New posts will be added here as they come in. Stayed tuned for how we made our 55-gallon drum fruit tree planters, how we’re using permaculture principles in our homestead design, and more!
How Can I Follow Along With Seattle Homestead?
The best ways to follow along with the site are to enter your email on the right side of any page to subscribe to updates from email, OR click the Facebook Like button at the top of the page to see updates in your Facebook feed. We won’t spam you ever. We hate electronic junk mail, too.
Located in the Seattle Area?
If you’re in the Seattle area and interested in sustainability, permaculture, homesteading, and similar topics, I recommend bookmarking Jocelyn’s Seattle Sustainability Events calendar.
Getting our Hands Dirty