We are sisters who want to create a place for dreamers, the secret backyard chicken keepers, the collectors of lost knowledge, the industrious gardener, and the hopefully curious. This is a place for all who have dreams of living a sustainable life connected to the community that they live in. We believe that a person can live a sustainable homesteading life no matter where they are. A person with herbs on the windowsill, a cheesemaker, friends taking knitting classes, a neighbor who shares garden tools, a plot at a community garden, this is the face of the modern homesteader. A person just like you……Do what you can, where you are, and live a joyous life doing so.

Pie Crust Recipe

Here is a basic, no-fuss, pie crust recipe, that is versatile and quick to make. This recipe is good for sweet or savory pies, galettes, quiches, or tarts, and is exactly the flaky pie crust recipe you've been looking for. The key to this pie crust is keeping the...

Blackberry Muffins

Last month my family and I were on our annual 'Grant Tour', meaning we were visiting the family. My husband and my families are mostly in Oregon, so once a year we travel through Oregon for three weeks straight, visiting aunts, uncles, siblings, grandparents,...

How to Downsize Your Homestead

It happens. Some life-changing situation occurs, and your homesteading needs to change too. It might be temporary or it might be a permanent change; you might have to take care of your family, you have a new job or a new baby. Or maybe you just took too much on and...

What Do You Do All Winter?

Friends and family often ask me, ‘What do you do all winter when it’s so dark and cold up there?” Now, I wish I could honestly answer; mush a dog team, run a trapline, ice fish daily, ski six miles a day, snowshoe to the grocery store, and rope a moose to pull my...

Salmon Marinade

My absolute favorite salmon recipe is salmon tacos. I know, I know, use valuable salmon for tacos? But, I'm telling you it's the best. Since we catch up to 50 salmon a year for our house, I've tried a lot, and I mean a lot, of different salmon recipes over time. I...

Outdoor Clotheslines

If someday I had to stop homesteading there are two things I’d never give up. One is my chickens, and the other is my clothesline. I think most of you would probably agree on keeping chickens. Chickens make cute noises, come in a variety of colors and breeds, and...

Birch Sap Sourdough Starter

Birch trees, like maple trees, produce sap that can be reduced down to make syrup. Awesome, right,...

How to Create a Convertible Chicken House

My chicken house and chicken yard look like a shanty town. I have a slapped together, constantly...

Six Uses for Birch Sap

It's almost time to tap the birch trees again. Even though it was -20F in town as I wrote this, I...

When Fences Fail

Now I know we all have an idealized view of homesteading, at least I did! Chickens and turkeys...

How to Make Amazing Kombucha

    Kombucha is everywhere you turn, from high-end restaurants and grocery stores to...

My Casual Garden

One of my many goals in life is to someday raise all my own food for my family, vegetables and...

Summer Blueberry Pie

The end of July marks wild blueberry season in Fairbanks, the transition season where summer ends...

25 Uses for Honey in the Kitchen

While talking with a friend the other day I mentioned I needed to buy some honey at the Farmer's...

Trading on the Homestead

One of my favorite activities is to trade with other people. Not buy, but trade, swap, bargain,...

Starting Your Backyard Flock

Are you interested in homesteading or creating a more sustainable life? You live somewhere with a...

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~ Jessica & April

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