The keys to setting up a sustainable business for your homestead are diversity and integration. Here's an example of a permaculture business.

If you hunt or raise your own meat, you will end up with pelts and hides left over. It is not hard to preserve them and make them into something beautiful.

Sewing and knitting are skills that are getting lost as the generations go by, which is a shame. If you can sew or knit, you can make almost anything, from clothes, to curtains, to bags.

Games are a great way for your kids to have fun learning. And treasure hunt is one of those games that can be adapted to any age and skill.

Make your toddler a swing using an old pair of jeans, chain and a few bits and pieces. It's quick and cheap to do.

Using a bucket and some fabric, you can make yourself a tool bucket, to help keep your tools in an organised and visible fashion.

Diaper free or EC is the process whereby parents watch their babies for the signals that they need the bathroom and then put them somewhere they can go. In a nutshell, potty training from birth.