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.
Top 5 Summer Rhubarb Recipes
Growing a garden in Fairbanks is challenging at best with a very short growing season of just 60 days guaranteed frost free. The silver lining of growing this far north is the 24 hours of sun for two months. I do not possess the natural green thumb of my sister...
All About Rhubarb
Rhubarb is one of the many exciting signs of spring, a welcome burst of color in an otherwise barren post winter landscape. Rhubarb is the first edible plant that grows on our farm. As the hardy perennial pushes its way through the soil before the forsythia blooms,...
In the Morning
This section of the blog is for daily life, rambling confessions and observations about the world we live in. Today mine is a complaint, a whine? It's 6 am and I was planning on sleeping in a little bit. I was up late last night working on our farmers market...
Greek Chicken and Rice Soup with Lemon
Greek Chicken and Rice Soup or Avgolemono is a favorite in our house. We usually make this right when the garden is starting to produce and we go out and harvest the vegetables and herbs for dinner. Except for the lemons, I want a lemon tree so badly and our...
Raising Turkey Poults
There is a huge amount of information about raising chickens and chicks, and so very little about raising turkeys from poults. Any information you do find is almost guaranteed to be about raising commercial breeds like the Broad-Breasted White, in a commercial...
Use What You Have: Upcyling Around the Homestead
When was the last time you donated to Goodwill or another charitable donation site? Did you see the piles of donated items? Brand new Items, some with tags, some in the packaging. I always think why? Why are things so disposable? Don't we work for 40+ hours a week...
Preserving Your Garlic Harvest
Garlic is a must in my kitchen and in my garden. Garlic has a very long growing season, about 7 months from planting to summer harvest. That's a very long investment for one food crop so I want to make sure that my harvest is preserved so it will last the longest...
Are Heritage Turkeys Really Better
Turkeys, in my opinion, are some of the easiest animals to raise and overwinter, although I'm not going to claim they are the smartest animals. I've owned Broad-breasted Whites, Narragansett, Bourbon Reds, and some mixed heritage breeds, in varying degrees of...
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~ Jessica & April