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...

Six Uses for Birch Sap

It's almost time to tap the birch trees again. Even though it was -20F in town as I wrote this, I...

How to Stop Chicken Pecking

Some chicken pecking occurs in all flocks and is natural to maintain order (i.e. the pecking...

Smoked Salmon Roe

It's salmon season up here in Fairbanks. My husband Joel came home about a week ago with 28...

Homemade Maple Granola

Homemade granola is actually very easy to make. I was intimidated at first to make it at home even...

Basic Bone Broth

Bone broth can be from any animal, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, lamb, beef, moose and on and on. If...

Homemade Italian Sausage

I'm currently on a charcuterie meat kick. Why? Because sausages and smoked meats are really good...

Caring and Cleaning for Your Wooden Rolling Pin

I love my rolling pin. It's dark wood, close grain with long handles that fit my hands perfectly. ...

Homemade Cinnamon Rolls

  I really love to bake, the process of baking is my zen moment in a hectic and busy day. I...

Pickled Beet Stems

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

When Fences Fail

Now I know we all have an idealized view of homesteading, at least I did! Chickens and turkeys...

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~ Jessica & April

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