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100 Words Every Homesteader Should Know

May 28, 2026

100 Words Every Homesteader Should Know

No. Item Definition
1. acreage amount of land in acres
2. apiary place where bees are kept
3. bale bound bundle of hay
4. barley hardy cereal grain
5. barn farm building for storage
6. bed prepared area for planting
7. blight plant disease causing damage
8. brine salty preserving liquid
9. butchering slaughtering and cutting meat
10. butter solid fat made from cream
11. cheese food made from curdled milk
12. chick young chicken
13. churn device for making butter
14. cistern tank for storing water
15. compost decayed organic matter fertilizer
16. coop shelter for chickens
17. corn tall cereal crop
18. cow adult female cattle
19. dehydrate remove moisture from food
20. draft horse strong horse for farm work
21. drought long period without rain
22. egg bird reproductive body
23. farrow give birth to piglets
24. feed food for farm animals
25. fence barrier enclosing land or animals
26. fertilizer material that feeds plants
27. fodder coarse feed for livestock
28. forage search widely for feed
29. frost thin ice from cold
30. furrow trench made for planting
31. garden plot for growing plants
32. gate movable barrier in a fence
33. generator machine producing electricity
34. germinate begin to sprout and grow
35. goat hardy milk or meat animal
36. grain small hard harvested seed
37. graze feed on grass
38. greenhouse glass house for growing plants
39. harvest gathering mature crops
40. hay dried grass for feed
41. hen adult female chicken
42. hive home for honeybees
43. hoe tool for weeding soil
44. homestead self-sufficient home and land
45. honey sweet substance made by bees
46. hose flexible tube for water
47. irrigation artificial watering of land
48. kidding goat giving birth
49. kindling small wood for starting fires
50. lambing sheep giving birth
51. lard rendered pig fat
52. livestock farm animals kept for use
53. manure animal waste used as fertilizer
54. milking drawing milk from animals
55. mulch covering that protects soil
56. oats grain often fed to animals
57. off-grid not using public utilities
58. orchard area planted with fruit trees
59. pantry room for food storage
60. pasture grazing land for animals
61. pen enclosed area for animals
62. pest harmful insect or animal
63. pig domesticated hog
64. pitchfork fork for hay or compost
65. pollination transfer of pollen for fertilization
66. prune cut back plant growth
67. rain barrel container collecting roof runoff
68. rake tool for gathering debris
69. render melt fat for use
70. resilience ability to recover from hardship
71. resourceful good at solving practical needs
72. rooster adult male chicken
73. root cellar cool room for produce
74. rototiller motorized soil-turning machine
75. seed plant embryo used for sowing
76. seedling young plant from a seed
77. shed small outbuilding for storage
78. sheep woolly grazing farm animal
79. shovel tool for digging and lifting
80. silage fermented green animal feed
81. soil top layer where plants grow
82. spade flat-bladed digging tool
83. straw dried stalks after harvest
84. tallow rendered animal fat
85. thaw become unfrozen
86. thrifty careful with resources
87. till turn over the soil
88. tractor powerful farm vehicle
89. transplant move plant to new place
90. trough container for animal water
91. trowel small hand digging tool
92. watering can container for watering plants
93. wean stop nursing the young
94. weed remove unwanted plants
95. well deep water source
96. wheat common cereal grain
97. wheelbarrow one-wheeled hauling cart
98. windmill wind-powered machine
99. woodstove stove that burns wood
100. yoke wooden frame for draft animals

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