We’re sisters with a shared dream: to create a welcoming space for dreamers, quiet backyard chicken keepers, collectors of forgotten skills, industrious gardeners, and the endlessly curious.
This is a gathering place for anyone who longs to live more sustainably and stay rooted in the community they call home. To us, homesteading isn’t measured by acres of land or a barn full of animals—it’s a way of bringing intention and meaning into everyday life. It’s also a way to push back against loneliness by connecting with others, sharing knowledge, and weaving community through simple, everyday acts.
A modern homesteader might be someone growing herbs on a windowsill, experimenting with cheesemaking in the kitchen, meeting friends for a knitting class, trading tools with neighbors, or tending a small plot at the community garden.
This is the face of today’s homesteader: people just like you.
Do what you can, right where you are—and find joy, connection, and belonging along the way.
Pressure Canning Beans
My family loves beans, black, garbanzo, white, navy and pinto are some of our favorites. We eat them at least once a day in salads, soups, dips and more! My children's favorite 'mom doesn't want to cook' meal is bean and cheese quesadillas. They eat them...
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...
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~ Jessica & April