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.
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...
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...
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~ Jessica & April