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.
Harvest Calendar
Another harvest season is almost behind me. Within a few weeks, it will start snowing here in Fairbanks, snowing and sticking. Every year I wonder what happened to spring, summer, and fall? In Fairbanks, the snow is usually gone around the first week of May and it...
Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar
It's the start of apple season, even up north here in Fairbanks. That means it's the start of eating fresh apples and making homemade apple pies, applesauce, dried apples, apple cider, and apple cider vinegar. Fairbanks is a tough place to grow apples. Below -40F...
My Casual Garden
One of my many goals in life is to someday raise all my own food for my family, vegetables and meat both, or at least as much as I can. I really don't see olive trees growing in Fairbanks anytime soon but, hey you never know. In the meantime, I try not to be too...
Salsa Verde
I grow a large garden every year but, never large enough to fulfill all of my canning needs, so off to our local farmers market I go. August is an amazing month at the farmers market, everything is available in bulk, at a great price. 25 lbs of tomatoes go for...
Summer Blueberry Pie
The end of July marks wild blueberry season in Fairbanks, the transition season where summer ends and the rainy fall season of August begins. This is a short, high-intensity season where you maybe have a two to three-week window to pick you blueberries for...
Homesteading on Sloped Land
Now in an ideal world, every homestead would contain an equal amount of gently sloped and flat land. Every homestead also would be south facing, have great soil, an ample water supply, some gentle shade trees, beautiful fields, a big red or white barn and plentiful...
Better Than Campbell’s Tomato Soup
Every family has that quick weeknight meal that takes moments to prepare and is loved by everybody. When I was a kid it was grilled cheese and Campbell's tomato soup. To a 7-year-old it was THE BEST DINNER EVER. I love to share the things that I enjoyed as a child...
25 Uses for Honey in the Kitchen
While talking with a friend the other day I mentioned I needed to buy some honey at the Farmer's Market. He then surprised me by saying he received 5 gallons of honey for a wedding gift but didn't know what you use honey for. After giving him a wide-eyed surprised,...
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~ Jessica & April
