Keeping a Homesteading Notebook

Let’s talk about keeping a homesteading notebook. This is something I started working on a few months ago, and I’m so thankful I did.

Having hard copies of tips, tricks, and recipes for homesteading and healthy living has come in handy more than once.

*Download my FREE homesteading notebook covers and tabs to help you set up your own notebook. Click on the teal download button towards the END of this post.

Keeping a Homesteading Notebook

Although I’ve been blogging for years, I’m not too great at processing digital resources. I’m a hands-on learner. I need to highlight and write comments because it helps me learn and remember better.

I’m not a sensationalist, but I have noticed helpful articles disappearing from the internet in the last year or two. When I find a helpful article, I print it out and put it in my notebook so I’ll always have access to it.

Some of the places I’ve personally found helpful articles have been:

• Melissa K. Norris
• Homesteading Family
• Mercola
• Deep Roots at Home

You might have your favorite online places, and I hope my blog will be one of them! Find all my homesteading resources & printables HERE.

To get started on your notebook, grab at least a 2-inch binder. I found one that I already had in my homeschool closet. {I may upgrade to a larger one as time goes by…plus purple isn’t my favorite color.}

As you find online articles and recipes, print them out and add them to your notebook.

Inside my notebook, I have three main topics/tabs: Health, Homesteading, and Food. These are VERY broad and a lot can fit under each one. You are welcome to narrow down the topics of your homesteading notebook tabs.

In the free printable at the bottom of this post, I have twenty-two ready-made tabs you can glue or tape into your notebook. They include:

1. baking
2. bees
3. bread
4. canning
5. chickens
6. cooking
7. cows
8. food
9. garden
10. goats
11. handmade
12. health
13. herbs
14. homemade
15. homestead
16. livestock
17. nutrition
18. organic
19. pigs
20. prepping
21. preserving
22. recipes

I’ve also included EIGHT write-on tabs if you don’t see a topic you’d like to include.

Enjoy homesteading!
~Becky