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How to Make Yogurt in a Food Dryer

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Easy Butternut Squash Quick Bread

How to Forage American Beautyberries

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How to Forage and Eat Maypops (wild passionfruit)

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40 Frugal Fall Ideas for Your Homestead

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 How to Can Maypop Jelly

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8 Benefits of Building a Strong Homesteading Community

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Homesteading for Freedom

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How to Harvest and Store Potatoes

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The Best Heat-Tolerant Plants for Your Summer Garden

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How to Pressure Can Stewed Tomatoes

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Hurricane Preparedness on the Homestead

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My Top 10 Reasons to Homestead in Florida

Make Your Own Homemade Kombucha

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How to Plant and Grow Potatoes

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How to Grow Luffa in Your Garden

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How to Choose Where You Should Start a Homestead

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21 Benefits of Frugal Living

12 Tips to Beat the Heat in Your Florida Garden

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How to Set Goals for Your Homestead

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7 Reasons You Should Set Goals for Your Homestead

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12 Questions to Ask Before You Start Homesteading

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16 Tips to Upgrade Your Homesteading Skills

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What are Your Unique Homesteading Skills?

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How to Practice Homesteading

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Why Do You Want to Homestead?

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How to Roast Pumpkin Seeds

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The Frugal 5: Frugal Living Around the Homestead

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How to Make Beautyberry Jelly

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Cranberry Hibiscus, Sorrel, or Roselle?

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Easy Roasted Seminole Pumpkin

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The Frugal 5 – Frugal Fun!

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How to Naturally Dye Easter Eggs

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Starting Your Homestead Orchard

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The Frugal 5 – Frugal in the Garden

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The Frugal 5: Frugal Living in the Kitchen

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The Frugal 5: Frugal Finances

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How to Grow Seminole Pumpkin in Florida

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What Are Cover Crops?

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How to Grow Sweet Potatoes in Florida Sand

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10 Natural Cleaning Tips for Your Homestead

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8 Ways to Cultivate a Homesteading Community

Two Luffa growing on vines on a metal trellis.

How to Harvest and Use Luffa Gourds

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What is Your Homestead Dream?

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51 Frugal Winter and Holiday Ideas for Homesteaders

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Tropical Papaya Lemon Bars

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Hey there, I’m Alisa and I live on our 3.3-acre homestead with my husband Mike.
Over the past several years, Our Frugal Florida Homestead has grown from a personal blog, to an information-packed resource.
Now that we’re settled onto our new homestead, the OFFH website is going to grow as fast as the weeds in my raised beds!

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