Homesteading Bucket List
Do you have a bucket list? Do you know what a homesteading bucket list is? A bucket list is defined as ” a number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime”. Our homesteading bucket list is where I organize homesteading skills I want to learn and homesteading tasks that I would like to accomplish over time. Some of them might be ways for our homestead to become more self-sufficient and some are more about ways our homesteading journey can be more fun!
To be honest, until a little while ago, I had never written down my bucket lists. I had just been keeping a running list in my head. I have a few lists separated into a couple categories and today I’m going to share my homesteading list and on my sister site Just Traveling Along, I’ve shared my travel related lists.
Below is my master list and I have crossed off the ones that I’ve accomplished and highlighted ones that have a related blog post. Also, this list is open-ended so occasionally you might see things added.
Homesteading Bucket List
- Own a milk cow
- Own goats
- Own a pig
Own chickensBuild a fence- make a root cellar
Start a garden from scratchStart laying hens from chicksButcher a chicken from beginning to end- Eat a
Breakfast,Lunch, and Dinner grown entirely on our own land - Butcher a pig
- Milk a cow, goat
- make cheese, butter,
ice cream grow a melon from seedgrow corn and eat itown ducksCan food from our gardenDry food from our gardenFerment food from our garden- Build a food forest
- Grow our own apples, pears, peaches, plums, apricots, grapes, goji berries, blueberries
Make bread from scratch- Learn to make various types of bread from scratch
- Learn to shoot a bow
- Learn to shoot a gun
- Learn the skill of how to properly set a trap
- Learn to make soap
- Learn to make candles
Learn how to light a fire without using matchesLearn to ride a horse- Own a horse
Try eating rabbit- Meet one of my farming idols
Own our own piece of property big enough to have farm animals- Learn about Essential Oils
- Build up my Essential Oil Collection
- render lard
- Add solar panels and learn how to become more self sufficient with our power
Have you made your own homesteading bucket list? I would love to see what kinds of things are on your list so please share with us in the comments!
And if you have any ideas you think I might like to try, share those in the comments too please.
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Related Posts:
- In the Homestead Garden ~ May 2020
- 4 Things to Think About Before Placing Your Chicken Coop
- How to Start Your Emergency Long-Term Food Storage
- A Beginners Guide to Composting in Your Backyard
- Garden Veggie Mason Jar Salads with Homemade Dressing
- 121 Skills for the Modern Homestead ~ The Prairie Homestead
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I do agree with all the concepts you’ve introduced to your post. They are very convincing and can certainly work. Still, the posts are too quick for novices. May you please extend them a little from next time? Thanks for the post.