Welcome to The Homestead Guru community. I’m Catherine (Cat) Bleish Bonandin, the Founding Mother, and I want this to be a place where we learn from one another’s real lives.
You belong here whether you grow herbs in an apartment, travel in an RV, share life in an eco-village or care for a big farm. Buying from a farmers market, making something useful and learning a new skill all count.
We are starting a fresh chapter. Help us build our first circle of 25 active community members. Introduce yourself with your general region, what you are working on and one thing you would like to learn. You do not need a polished homestead or a perfect answer.
A few ways to make this useful
- Ask a specific question and include the context someone needs to help.
- Share the wins and the experiments that flopped.
- Disagreement is welcome. Personal attacks and spam are not.
- Keep private information, children’s identifying details and exact home locations out of posts.
- Link sources for technical advice. For canning, share a tested recipe; for herbs, distinguish tradition, personal experience and evidence.
- Disclose an affiliate or business connection when it is relevant. Unsolicited sales posts do not belong here.
Pick a section, say hello and reply to someone else’s question. Let’s make this a place worth coming back to.
Cat
Founding Mother
