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.

Outdoor Clotheslines

If someday I had to stop homesteading there are two things I’d never give up. One is my chickens, and the other is my clothesline. I think most of you would probably agree on keeping chickens. Chickens make cute noises, come in a variety of colors and breeds, and...

Trading on the Homestead

One of my favorite activities is to trade with other people. Not buy, but trade, swap, bargain, give, gift, and receive. Not only is it fun, but it can be very beneficial to your homestead. I'm going to share with you why and how you should join the trading game....

Winter Animal Care

I love my animals! Love them, except in winter, when I don't. Then they go from movie star status to unsightly object on the bottom of my shoe type of admiration. Through no fault of their own of course. They are just as quirky and wonderful as they were in the...

Pumpkin Soup

Winter is the season for warm socks, hot drinks, and warming soup. Pumpkin Soup or Winter Squash Soup is one of my favorites, full of flavor and warmth, this soup makes a statement. Perfect for company or for a cozy evening by the fire. I enjoy the flavors of curry...

Six Seasons in Alaska

Fairbanks does not follow the 'classic' seasons of winter, spring, summer, and fall. These seasons are a myth, an idea, a dream. There are six real seasons in Fairbanks as follows: Breakup, Greenup, Mosquito Season, August (the Rainy Month), September (the Fall...

How to Grow Basil – Everything You Need To Know

  Basil makes me happy.  It's amazing how one little plant...

Raising Turkey Poults

There is a huge amount of information about raising chickens and chicks, and so very little about...

How to Create a Convertible Chicken House

My chicken house and chicken yard look like a shanty town. I have a slapped together, constantly...

Homemade Garlic Powder

Oh my goodness, I love garlic, its pungent smell is my happy home dinner feeling (that's a thing I...

Smokey Cowboy Cookies

I love smoked food, love it, smoked sausage, salmon, porter, jerky, chowders, pretty much...

Pickled Beet Stems

What to do with the beet stems? That is the question. The beets themselves, easy. Beet greens, no...

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...

Salmon Marinade

My absolute favorite salmon recipe is salmon tacos. I know, I know, use valuable salmon for tacos?...

My Casual Garden

One of my many goals in life is to someday raise all my own food for my family, vegetables and...

Mixed Berry Syrup

When summer berries are ripe, I fill my freezer and wait for cooler weather to start canning. Some...

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~ Jessica & April

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