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.
Self-Care 101
I am a modern homesteader which means I am busy juggling family, home, farm, work, and making sure everything is running smoothly. I love working from home and consider myself fortunate for having the ability to do so. The downside of this arrangement is that...
Smokey Cowboy Cookies
I love smoked food, love it, smoked sausage, salmon, porter, jerky, chowders, pretty much anything. Usually, I like my food to kick me in the face with the smokiness of it, but sometimes subtlety has it's advantages as well. Last spring, when Jessica was visiting,...
A Really Bad Farm Dog
I moved up to Fairbanks in 2005. In 2006 I got a husky. "Why", do you ask? Because that's what you're supposed to do when you move to Alaska, get a husky. And it's not very hard to do, almost every dog in Fairbanks has husky in them, and there are a lot of dogs in...
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. My mom bought it for me in college, and my rolling pin and I have been friends ever since, baking together once or twice a week in mutual happiness. Now I'm not going...
Balancing Form and Function: keeping the homestead yard clean
Some people, like myself, foolishly thought that owning a farm or homestead meant you had acres of maintained green lawn, huge hay fields, a big red barn, or at the very least a big log house. Mmmm? I must have read too many books growing up because not only does...
Spicy Fermented Crock Pickles
This recipe is an old school dill pickle recipe, the pickles come out full of flavor and lightly effervescent. Fermenting pickles produces a much better pickle than hot water bath canning because the pickle is never cooked or heated it retains the crunchy texture...
How to Butcher a Turkey
Autumn makes me think of vibrant leaves, warm soups, pumpkins, comfy sweaters, and harvesting the bounty that I have nurtured for the last 6 months. Autumn is harvest season on our homestead. I harvest my garden, fruit trees and because I choose to be an omnivore,...
Homemade Maple Granola
Homemade granola is actually very easy to make. I was intimidated at first to make it at home even though there are a lot of recipes out there claiming it works. I did a bit of research and combined a few recipes I found into this one. Unlike some of my other first...
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~ Jessica & April