This is 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 history and the community they live in. We believe that a person can live a sustainable homesteading life no matter where they are. There is never a need to wait until it’s perfect or the right time. A person with herbs on their windowsill, a kitchen gardener,  friends taking knitting classes, a home with a flock of backyard chickens, these are the modern homesteaders. Do what you can, where you are, and live a joyous life doing so.

Jessica– I have enthusiastically been homesteading all of my life, umm sometimes casually, occasionally haphazardly?!? but always enthusiastically.  I have been a student, a wife, a stay-at-home mother, a bookstore owner, and a cut flower grower, and sometimes I have been all of these things at once. I have lived at the beach, in the city, in a small town, and in the country. Always have I found a way to homestead a little, farm just a little, grow something just a little. Always. I live in a small corner of northeast Oregon where our winters can be cold and our summers are hot and I wouldn’t have it any other way

April – I am thankful for the way I grew up. My parents always had a garden, owned chickens and ducks, hunted, and fished, all of which have given me a head start on casual homesteading. I am an enthusiast of eating, collecting, growing, and storing my own food, to varying degrees, as I have time. My side hustle is working as a biologist. I live outside Fairbanks, Alaska where we have 6 months of winter and a short growing season.