Vegetarian Homestead

[Tussiemussies]

Would like to find a blog on vegetarian homesteading but after doing two searches it didn't come up with anything. Does anyone have a blog like this that they read?
Thanks.C

[razz]

TM, could you not follow a homesteading blog and then go more vegetarian? So many skills are required to go to a homestead of any kind that the more ideas youhave access to, the more options you will have. Some organic farmers may have some vegetarian ideas as well.

[bunnys]

Are you saying you want to be entirely self-sufficient as you homestead and live as a vegetarian?

And you mean vegetarian, right? Not vegan.

I would think raising animals to have a source of dairy products and eggs and then not slaughtering them or selling them to a slaughterhouse once they became too old to be productive on the homestead would be very expensive. (I think it would be expensive to maintain a non-lactating cow as a pet, for instance.)

Also, vegetarian/vegan food is kind of bland when it isn't flavored with meaty, sizzling fat. You're simply not going to be able to produce exotic spices on your homestead to flavor your vegetarian dishes. You could grow a bunch of herbs but you're not going to be able to get the spices. However you might be able to produce something else that you could sell/barter for spices.

I would suggest you look at the website for a commune. There's a local commune near where I live that makes the tofu I buy. You can look at their website and see how they live. Not everyone on the commune is vegetarian/vegan but some are. I don't know how self-sufficient they are. They make their money by making tofu and hammocks--so they do have an industry. Here's their website:

http://www.twinoaks.org/

Good luck.

[Yemaya]

I'm new around here, so I don't know if their name is a dirty word (after the uproar when they tried to copyright the term "urban homestead"), but the Dervaes family run a vegetarian urban farm.

[Tiam]

Is even the most self sufficient homesteader without luxuries such as spices? Don't meat eating self sufficient homesteaders eat spices also?

[Float On]

http://www.dancingrabbit.org/

You might be interested in this website. Most of them are vegetarian at Dancing Rabbit, though it looks like they've eased up on that requirement over the last few years. Their new website is better and I didn't look around too much but there may be some links to blogs.

I've been by there but didn't get to stop and visit, have met a few people from there at the Farmer's Market in Kirksville. This is at the other end of the state from me but I have a lot of family up that way.

[puglogic]

I'm new around here, so I don't know if their name is a dirty word (after the uproar when they tried to copyright the term "urban homestead"), but the Dervaes family run a vegetarian urban farm.

Well, they certainly aren't my favorite people in the world, but that doesn't make their ideas about self-sufficiency any less valid. [begin snarkiness ] I just choose to overlook the parts where one generates income by using the legal system to put other people out of business [end snarkiness]

Tussiemussies, do you eat eggs/cheese? I don't know of any vegetarian only homesteading blogs, but I would think you could just read regular small homesteading blogs and skip over the grassfed beef and broiler chicken parts :)

I also read Grit, which can have some fun/useful posts on its web site.