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.

Cold Climate Vegetable Gardening

I love to garden, my life is just plain better when I am playing with dirt. The colors textures and variety of a garden are a balm to my soul. If I was ever going to be an artist then the soil would be my canvas and the plants my medium. Okay, you all have the...

15 Ways to Upcycle Feedbags

Upcyling around the homestead is a great way to save money and to be kind to the planet around you. As mentioned in our previous post 'Use What You Have: Upcycling Around the Homestead', there are a lot of ways to reuse things or find free items around your...

How to Create a Convertible Chicken House

My chicken house and chicken yard look like a shanty town. I have a slapped together, constantly tinkered with, completely functional and flexible, eyesore of a chicken shack, which also just happens to be way too close to my house. Now this was not my original...

Starting Your Backyard Flock

Are you interested in homesteading or creating a more sustainable life? You live somewhere with a backyard, no matter how small? Start with chickens, they are the easiest way to provide food, insect control, fertilizer, and entertainment. I started my first flock...

Before You Start Homesteading

Nobody can tell anybody else exactly how to start homesteading. Everyone's situation is different; people live in different areas, have different climates, have a lot of money, are dead broke, hate pigs, you get the idea. So I'm not going to provide you with a list...

A Homestead Journal

I like to try new things every year with gardening and animals such as: new breeds of peas, homemade incubators, different watering systems, places to set my beehive; you get the picture. Tinkering, I like to call it, or some people would call it 'improving...

Perfect Spring Quiche with Asparagus

I am sitting here at the beginning of January, dreaming of spring gardens as I slowly flip through...

Pickled Beet Stems

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

Salmon Marinade

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

5 Simple Kale Recipes

I love kale for many reasons. First, it's really tasty. Two, I can easily grow a lot of it making...

How to Create a Convertible Chicken House

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

Pressure Canning Basics

Pressure canning is a method used to preserve low acid foods such as vegetables and meat, beans...

Better Than Campbell’s Tomato Soup

Every family has that quick weeknight meal that takes moments to prepare and is loved by...

How to Downsize Your Homestead

It happens. Some life-changing situation occurs, and your homesteading needs to change too. It...

Preserving Your Garlic Harvest

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

How to Butcher a Turkey

Autumn makes me think of vibrant leaves, warm soups, pumpkins, comfy sweaters, and harvesting the...

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~ Jessica & April

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