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.
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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~ Jessica & April