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.
25 Ideas To Help You Start Homesteading
Here is a list of 'Casual Homestead' ideas that can start you on your journey. These small ideas help connect you with community, nature and sometimes yourself. You don't need to do them all, nor all at the same time. Pick...
How to Make Amazing Kombucha
Kombucha is everywhere you turn, from high-end restaurants and grocery stores to quick in and out gas stations. If you are not familiar with kombucha, it is a probiotic-rich, fermented tea drink with a fizzy vinegary tang. It is largely classified as...
Smoked and Kippered Salmon
Every year, mid-June, my husband and I go to the town of Chitina, Alaska to dip net salmon in the Copper River. This trip supplies our family with salmon for well over a year. Legal residents of Alaska with a fishing permit are allowed to catch up to 25 salmon per...
Cooking with Cast Iron Pans
I grew up using cast iron pans. For some reason at our house, we didn't have anything else but cast iron, no non-stick, aluminum or copper for us. So to me, they are what you cook with. Perfectly normal, and I think they are wonderful. I cook everything in them,...
Meat Rabbits 101
My sister April, first started talking about purchasing meat rabbits a few years ago but was having difficulty finding good breeding stock in Alaska. She always visits Oregon in the summer so I thought I would look for a few rabbits of breeding age where I live,...
Why I Raise Chickens!
If I could only pick one animal to have on my homestead, it would be chickens. Hands down, no contest! I know I am not alone in my thinking, I recently read a study that claims chickens are kept in every major city in...
Simple Farmhouse Biscuits
One of my cooking goals in life, yes I have cooking goals, is to make excellent biscuits. I found that the easiest way to acquire good recipes is to eat other people's cooking and if you like it, ask for the recipe. People never say no. I attained this recipe from...
5 Steps To Start a Vegetable Garden
The very first vegetable (or fruit) I grew was a cherry tomato plant, a hybrid sweet 100, that I came across while was perusing the end-of-spring garden tables at our local hardware store. I planted it against a sunny south side wall of our house in Portland,...
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~ Jessica & April
