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.
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,...
Animals, Gardening and Poop
This blog is our way of sharing wisdom and the things we have learned about homesteading, if I was being completely honest it should be called '101 Mistakes and How Not to Make Them in Homesteading'.  About 10 years ago my family and I found this magic...
DIY Home Smoker
I am a big fan of smoked foods and I have never found a food that didn't taste better with a little smoke added! At first, I found it very intimidating to start smoking my own food, and then it turned out to be very easy because you don't need fancy smokers or...
Basic Bone Broth
Bone broth can be from any animal, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, lamb, beef, moose and on and on. If you don't raise your own animals or hunt that's okay because your local butcher shop will sell them to you very cheaply. Making a good bone broth is a quintessential...
Cutting Down on Food Waste
For many people, preparing food at home results in vegetables scraps and food that are not worthy of human consumption and are often thrown into the garbage. On our homestead, you might as well be throwing away money....
Slow Cooker Butter Garlic Rabbit
This slow cooker meal is pure winter comfort food, warm, filling and delicious! This is a great introductory recipe for people that are new to eating rabbit. My family was very adamant at first that 'rabbits are not for eating', well now they ask me to cook this...
How to make your own bacon!
Unless you are a vegetarian, you love bacon. 2017 was the first year my husband and I decided to raise pigs with some friends. After butchering we had 20-25 lbs of potential bacon. So I decided to give it a go and see if I...
A Slower Life
We have lived in our current house for 11 years now, on almost 10 acres of creek front in a forested canyon. The longest amount of time spent in any one house outside my childhood home, and for my military husband the longest he has been in one house, ever....
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~ Jessica & April