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Advocacy and Support Groups
Blue Ridge Homesteaders Website Documentation
Curated Websites of Interest
Food Hubs
Marketing Yourself and Your Business
Youtube Channels
Advocacy and Support Groups
ASAP (Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project)
A powerful farmer and homesteader-friendly group dedicated to the multi-state support of local area farms, farmers markets and local food. They have huge resources and support.
The North Carolina Small Business Center Network
View this BRH blog article featuring the statewide center for one-on-one consulting, seminars and workshops and business loans and grants. If you're in NC, there's one near you.
Blue Ridge Homesteaders Website Documentation
How To Edit Your User Profile
If you're a Registered Member, a completed Profile will help build your brand and network. If you also have a business, help it get found in the search engines. Not a Member yet? Register here.
Curated Websites of Interest
Azure Standard
Superior food and variety of products and information based upon organic lifestyles. Food delivery by routes or UPS, USPS.
Backyard Chickens
Pretty much everything you need to know about raising chickens. Very active forums-- post your question and get lots of helpful replies from the community.
Bartering Posts at SuvivalBlog
Here's a ton of real-world articles about bartering.
Mother Earth News
The original Back to the Land movement magazine, first published in 1970. A barnful of how-to and DIY information.
Backwood Homes Magazine
The website of the print magazine founded in 1989 as a how-to homesteading magazine for anyone wishing to pursue a self-reliant lifestyle. It contains articles on gardening, livestock, canning, building, cooking, and guns. It is currently a 116 page quarterly publication.
Feedspot's Top 100 Homesteading Blogs and Websites
The best Homesteading blogs from thousands of blogs on the web ranked by traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness.
Feedspot's Top 80 Vegetable Gardening Blogs and Websites.
The best Vegetable Gardening blogs from thousands of blogs on the web ranked by traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness.
Patchwork Alliance - An Online Regional Marketplace
Patchwork Alliance (Asheville, NC) is a co-op for local growers, crafters, service-providers, and makers. A shared marketplace that connects them with regional residents who want local, fresh, and natural products.
Premier1Supplies
A huge online store featuring a huge inventory of supplies and knowledge for managing livestock.
The Urban Homesteader
The royal family of urban homesteading, the Dervaeses, wrote the book on self-sufficiency on a 1/20 acre property in Pasadena. Astonishing stuff.
Food Hubs
High Country Food Hub
A Boone, NC food hub that puts area farmers in touch with consumers.
Tractor Food & Farms
A Burnsville, NC food hub that puts Western NC farmers and their products in touch with consumers.
Marketing Yourself and Your Business
Social Media Examiner
DON'T MISS THIS! An excellent source for marketing via social media. Lots of free how-to stuff. They monetize their site by selling training and classes but the amount of free information is massive.
Develop Your BlueRidgeHomesteaders.Org User Profile
Complete your Profile to build your brand and, if you have a business, get found in the search engines.
BlueRidgeHomesteaders.Org Blog Posts About Marketing
You can find great blog articles about marketing your business right here on this Website.
Youtube Channels
The Hollar Homestead
A good backstory and ongoing homesteading adventure about a California family that began a year-long search for the ideal homesteading property and settled in the Piedmont area of North Carolina.
The Fit Farmer - Mike Dickson
A former professional bodybuilder and his family sold everything and moved from the city to begin homesteading.
Homestead Living
A principled homesteading family in the Ozark mountains of Missouri. "Join with us as we journey back to the old paths: simple home family life, organic gardening, and animal husbandry."
Farm Life Outfitters
"We are a homeschooling homesteading family in NC who love Jesus and being together. We hope you find us entertaining and encouraging."
Sow The Land
"We are the Contreras family, Jason, Lorraine & Penelope. In 2016 we sold most of our belongings and left the city in southern California to start a small homestead in the mountains of North Carolina."
The Justin Rhodes Show
"Family Friendly Homesteading." A highly successful, highly instructional Youtube channel where you can learn a ton of homesteading stuff.
Living Traditions Homestead
"We started as a small urban homestead in Gilbert, AZ and after the city grew up around us, decided it was time leave corporate America and take a big leap of faith by moving our family to the Missouri Ozarks."