Do you want to learn DIY homesteading projects?
In this guide, we cover dozens of different projects you can do around the homestead so you can become more self-reliant and self-sufficient. You’ll learn things from how to make your own cheese at home to making your own rocket stove.
Do it yourself skills are the type of skills for homesteaders that are absolutely essential, more so than other skills.
Everything you do, you do without much help from society. As you should. Living in a sustainable, self-sufficient style is ideal and leads to much greater fulfillment.
Homesteading Project Ideas
Living as a homesteader requires many hands-on skills. But that’s the fun of being a homesteader. Here are projects for you to further develop your homesteading and DIY skills.
How To Make No-Knead Bread
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How To Inspect Your Beehives
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How To Increase Your Flock’s Eggs Production
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Fermentation Basics
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Small Scale Haying
Watch how it’s done in the video below.
How To Harvest Rainwater
Knowing how to harvest rainwater is one of the best water survival skills you can learn.
We get all of this water that falls from the sky, for free. Why waste it?
See how you can collect rainwater so you can use it wisely for other things besides letting it go to waste.
Get the full instructions here.
Make An Outdoor Bench For Gardening
Get the full instructions here on how to do it below.
Build An Outdoor Oven
Watch the full instructions in the video below.
DIY Natural Backyard Pond
How would you like to have a real live natural pond in your own backyard? It’s possible. Watch how it’s done below.
How To Make Compost
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Make Paper From Grasses and Leaves
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Build a Homestead Classic: The Outhouse
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Portable Chicken Mini-Coop Plan
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The Very Best DIY Home Cleaning Recipes
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Learn To Build Boxes
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Build Your Own Beehive
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Craft Your Own Beer
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How To Make a Honey Extractor
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How To Restore Old Wooden Furniture
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DIY Beeswax Crafts For Home
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DIY Cough Drops
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Make an Herbal Rock Wall
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How To Braid Garlic
Watch how to do it in this video.
Make Your Own Herbal Medicines
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Drying Herbs, Easier Than You Think, never buy dry herbs again
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DIY flatbread truck
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Make your own gas, alcohol fuel basics
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How To Build a Root Cellar
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Make a Self Watering Garden Hose Pot
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Build This Easy Hoop House
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DIY Pallet Workbench
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PVC Watering Grid
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Build a Home With Earth and Straw
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Backyard DIY Smokehouse
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How To Make a Paracord Survival Bracelet
These bracelets are one of the best survival gadgets that you can have. You can also make one yourself.
There are dozens of different uses for paracord and you get plenty of it in a bracelet you can wear around your wrist.
See the full step by step guide on how to make a paracord bracelet so you’ll have one when you need it.
Cook with Solar Power
Have you ever used solar for cooking?
Using solar for more than just keeping the lights on is an option.
Get the full instructions here.
DIY Pergola Plans
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Wax Cheese For Long-Term Storage
Have you ever made wax cheese for long-term storage purposes?
Wax cheese makes for good storage for your emergency food supply.
Get the full instructions here.
Egg Carton Lint Fire Starters
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DIY Greenhouse
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Salt Cure Ham With Curing Salt
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Build a Potato Gardening Box
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Create This Food Storage Shelf
Diy Food Storage Shelf by Anna White
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Make Your Own Beef Tallow
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Make Homemade Vinegar
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Build This Wind-Powered Water Pump
Replacing the need for electricity is a good way to become more self-sufficient.
Replacing that energy with solar, wind, and even water are optimal options.
Here’s how to make a wind-powered water pump.
Get the full instructions here.
Make A Solar Heater Using Soda Cans
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Composting Toilet
When you got to go, you got to go. Learn how to make your own composting toilet so you have the option of a toilet and don’t have to decide which leaves are the best to use as toilet paper.
Full instructions here.
Make Your Own Cheese Press
I love cheese, I eat it almost every day.
Here’s how to make your own cheese press.
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Make Your Own Cooking Oils
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Preserve Tomatoes With Canning Jars
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How To Make a Tomato Cage With PVC
One of the many PVC uses is to use it to make a tomato cage.
Get the full instructions here.
Build An Easy Outdoor Rocket Stove
Have you ever made a rocket stove?
This is one of the most popular DIY stoves you can make. Check it out below.
Get the full instructions here.
Make Your Own Canned Pickles
Canning is one of the skills a homesteader can learn. Not just homesteaders of course, canning is great for people that take their health seriously and those that want to prepare an emergency food supply for the future disasters.
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Make a Full Compost Bin
Full instructions here.
Learn To Bake Without an Oven
Learning how to make without an oven is one of the best self-sufficiency skills to learn when you’re on a homestead.
Get the full instructions here.
Make This Delicious Scratch Biscuits Recipe
Biscuits might seem to be a simple recipe to make and they are taste about the same.
However, not all biscuits are created equally. Check out these biscuits.
Get the full instructions here.
DIY Oil Lamp
Knowing how to make an oil lamp is a good source of lighting that is sustainable.
Get the full instructions here.
Make Homemade Goat Cheese
Have you ever made homemade goat cheese?
Cheese is commonly thought of at cheese from a cow. But what about goat cheese?
Would you be surprised to know that goat cheese may actually be healthier than cow cheese?
See the whole post here.
How To Make Homemade Biscuits From Scratch
Buying biscuits already made and making them yourself at home just aren’t the same. Especially in the homestead with your family,
Go here for the entire post with step by step instructions.
Conclusion
There are hundreds of more DIY homesteading projects you can tackle to learn and develop your DIY skills. We’ll be making more posts on them soon.
This list will help give you a few to try out.
We hope you liked this guide on different DIY homesteading projects you can try out. You might also like our ultimate guide to anvils and also out guide on the best blacksmithing tools for beginners to get started with.
Have you done any of these projects already?
