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.
Essential Homesteading Wisdom
Living on a farm or homestead offers some very unique experiences that you won't necessarily find in other living situations. Some are charming and endearing and some are just downright perplexing. When you ask somebody to describe a typical homestead or...
A Farm is for the Family
A farm is an amazing place for a child to grow up, it holds wonders that many children will never experience. My kids are able to enjoy a freedom that is often missing from children's lives in this generation, the freedom to learn and explore and interact...
Goat Chevre
I personally don't own milk goats, so instead, I bought into a goat share of my neighbor's milk goat. Basically, I own part of their goat, I help pay for the goat's upkeep, and I get to have a certain amount of milk every week for myself. Depending on the...
Homemade Garlic Powder
Oh my goodness, I love garlic, its pungent smell is my happy home dinner feeling (that's a thing I swear). A little extra virgin olive oil heating in a pan with minced garlic and a splash of white wine, most of my favorite meals start this way. I am not alone in my...
Spring and New Life
I find it appropriate to start this blog as winter gives way to spring, a new chance, a new start. As roving bands of turkeys strut through my yard in all their gaudy glory, I realize winter truly is over. Our end of winter in rural Eastern Oregon usually...
My Love Hate Relationship with March.
March. I have a love-hate relationship with March. In Interior Alaska, March is the last true month of winter, which started in October. That is a lot of winter. When winter starts I love the snow, it's beautiful and peaceful and I just have a little bit of a kid...
Pressure Canning Basics
Pressure canning is a method used to preserve low acid foods such as vegetables and meat, beans and broth. Low acid foods need to be heated to at least 240° F in order to kill any Clostridium botulinum spores, what is commonly known as botulism, that thrive in a...
Homemade Italian Sausage
I'm currently on a charcuterie meat kick. Why? Because sausages and smoked meats are really good to eat, and sausages especially are pretty easy and fun to make. Now I'm not going to lie, you need some specialty equipment to make sausage. You need a sausage grinder...
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~ Jessica & April