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...

Salsa Verde

I grow a large garden every year but, never large enough to fulfill all of my canning needs, so...

Pickled Beet Stems

What to do with the beet stems? That is the question. The beets themselves, easy. Beet greens, no...

Trading on the Homestead

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

Greek Chicken and Rice Soup with Lemon

Greek Chicken and Rice Soup or Avgolemono is a favorite in our house. We usually make this right...

Salmon Marinade

My absolute favorite salmon recipe is salmon tacos. I know, I know, use valuable salmon for tacos?...

How to Make Amazing Kombucha

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

Spring and New Life

  I find it appropriate to start this blog as winter gives way to spring, a new chance, a new...

Preserving Your Garlic Harvest

Garlic is a must in my kitchen and in my garden. Garlic has a very long growing season, about 7...

Mixed Berry Syrup

When summer berries are ripe, I fill my freezer and wait for cooler weather to start canning. Some...

DIY Goat Milk Yogurt

My kids are yogurt fiends! I've been feeding plain Nancy's yogurt to the kids since they were...

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~ Jessica & April

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