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How One Couple Built the Barn Event Venue of Their Dreams  Rethink:Rural Blog

How One Couple Built the Barn Event Venue of Their Dreams | Rethink:Rural Blog

Discover how one couple transformed their property by building a barn event venue for weddings and other parties, and their advice for how you can,...

6 Tips to Maintain Plant and Wildlife Diversity when Clearing Your Land

6 Tips to Maintain Plant and Wildlife Diversity when Clearing Your Land

Hasty decisions about what to remove when clearing new property for trails and other enhancements may result in less than satisfactory results. Many...

7 Tips for Starting a MasterPlanned Garden on Your Land

7 Tips for Starting a Master-Planned Garden on Your Land

Before making any drastic changes to your land, draft a master plan for your garden and move carefully to reach your ultimate goal.

How to Build a Pond or Lake on Your Rural Property

How to Build a Pond or Lake on Your Rural Property

If you’re hoping to add a pond or lake to your property, there are many factors to consider and lots of planning to do. Our latest infographic offers...

Land ownership for beginners: Our favorite advice

Land ownership for beginners: Our favorite advice

You bought the land, now what? We take a look at the best advice we've collected about how to build on your land, establish landscaping and even...

9 Steps Toward SelfSufficient Landscaping

9 Steps Toward Self-Sufficient Landscaping

Permaculture expert Jessi Bloom offers her tips on ways to make your property more sustainable, self-sufficient and productive

How to find the right contractor for your land

How to find the right contractor for your land

You found your dream property, and now you're ready to build your homestead. But how do you find a good contractor? We get expert advice.

How to build your first treehouse

How to build your first treehouse

Remember when treehouses were just for kids?

How to build a pond or lake on your property

How to build a pond or lake on your property

We interview a permaculture design expert about installing a water feature while avoiding common pitfalls and mistakes.

They've Goat it Good at this Florida Goat Farm

They've "Goat" it Good at this Florida Goat Farm

A couple turns a plot of timberland into the property of their dreams, a homestead with a Western-themed Florida  goat farm.