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...

DIY Goat Milk Yogurt

My kids are yogurt fiends! I've been feeding plain Nancy's yogurt to the kids since they were...

Meat Rabbits 101

My sister April, first started talking about purchasing meat rabbits a few years ago but was...

Top-Bar Beehive Plans

I've always wanted to keep bees. When I was planning my homestead, beekeeping was at the top of my...

Mixed Berry Syrup

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

Raising Turkey Poults

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

Preserving Your Garlic Harvest

Garlic is a must in my kitchen and in my garden. Garlic has a very long growing season, about 7...

Salsa Verde

I grow a large garden every year but, never large enough to fulfill all of my canning needs, so...

Summer Blueberry Pie

The end of July marks wild blueberry season in Fairbanks, the transition season where summer ends...

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...

How to Smoke a Turkey

Thanksgiving is coming up, my husband’s favorite holiday.  In our family, I’m in charge of...

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~ Jessica & April

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