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Wild harvested dandelions with the roots still intact.

Backyard Gardening

Foraging Edible Plants Right Outside Your Door

Bold text reading 'Save Seeds & Printable Seed Packets' with vibrant images of vegetables, herbs, and flowers inside the letters.

Backyard Gardening

The Ultimate Seed Saving Guide and Printable Seed Packets

A wire basket of potatoes spilling out on a wooden table.

Backyard Gardening

A Guide to Planting Potatoes in a Back to Eden Garden

The word Ebelskiver is Danish for apple slices, but the meaning is a dessert or snack similar to a pancake, but with a flakier texture and round shape.

In the Kitchen

Ebelskiver {Pancake Puff} Recipe Roundup

World Naked Gardening Day is an occasion that allows me to really bond with the family. Sometimes even the neighbors come by to join in the fun.

Backyard Gardening

World Naked Gardening Day

An herb crusted chèvre with a slice cut from it.

In the Kitchen

Homemade Chèvre: A Homesteader’s Guide to Crafting Cheese

Succession planting is basically growing one crop after another. It's easy in warm climates, but even those of us up in Maine can do it.

Backyard Gardening

Succession Planting: Growing More In the Same Space

What my chickens consume, my family consumes. That's why I prefer to try herbals, essential oils, and natural remedies before bringing out the big guns.

Homestead Animals

Using Herbs & Essential Oils with Your Backyard Chickens

Angi refers to herself and her family as lazy homesteaders. And that is okay. Homesteading doesn't have to be all or nothing.

Homestead Inspiration

The Lazy Homesteaders: Angi’s Story

A honeybee pollinating light purple daisies with yellow centers in a wildflower meadow.

Backyard Gardening

Grow a Bee-Friendly Wildflower Meadow on Your Homestead

An honest conversation about the struggles and discouragement of learning to homestead. It's not all rainbows and sunshine people!

Homestead Inspiration

Struggles: Because Homesteading Can Be Discouraging

Close-up of dried banana peels scattered on a wooden surface.

Backyard Gardening

Pantry Staples for Gardening: Frugal Fixes That Actually Work

Covering everything from choosing an incubator or broody, what's going on in the egg, tricks to make things run smoothly, hatch day and then caring for your new fluffy friends.

Homestead Animals

How to Prepare to Hatch: Broody Hens, Incubators and Eggs

Close-up of Swiss chard leaves coated with frost in a garden.

Backyard Gardening

Understanding Gardening Zones & Frost Dates for Better Planting

16+ Enchanting Mason Jar Craft Ideas You’ll Love to DIY

Simple Living Skills

16+ Enchanting Mason Jar Craft Ideas You’ll Love to DIY

Kelli and her husband are urban homesteaders living on 1/3 of an acre in Iowa. She is the author of homesteading site, The Sustainable Couple.

Homestead Inspiration

The Sustainable Couple: Kelli’s Homestead

A close-up of a barred rock chicken in a shaded grassy area.

Homestead Animals

Can Chickens Catch Colds? Chicken Respiratory Health

Oven crepes are super easy to make and hard to mess up. You'll love them even more if you fill them with this delicious maple cream cheese filling. It's our family favorite.

In the Kitchen

Oven Crepes Recipes & Maple Cream Cheese Filling

A snow-covered garden in the backyard.

Backyard Gardening

Winter Sowing Tips: Seed Starting by Zone + Additional Info

Pouring a glass of milk in front of a dairy goat.

Homestead Animals

A Simple Trick for Great Tasting Goat’s Milk

A vibrant container garden featuring marigolds, lettuce, and herbs arranged on a patio with a white picket railing.

Backyard Gardening

Small Space Vegetable Gardening: Tips for Growing More in Less

A striped sweater hung on a clothesline with snow in the background.

Simple Living Skills

The Secret of Line Drying Clothes in Winter (even in Maine!)

Teri lives on 10 acres in Missouri with her family of four. She is the writer of Homestead Honey and today she is sharing her homesteading journey with us.

Homestead Inspiration

Starting from Scratch: Teri’s Homesteading Journey

This lovely honey-rosemary brine gives a wonderful flavor to not only wild onions, but to garlic cloves, sliced shallots, green onions and other vegetables, as well.

In the Kitchen

Pickled Wild Onions in Honey-Rosemary Brine

A group of chickens roaming freely near an electric netted fence in a grassy field.

Homestead Animals

How & Why to Properly Quarantine Chickens to Protect Your Flock

This is a one skillet dish, so clean up is easy. Since this fried rice recipe makes use of a lot of leftovers, your refrigerator will have more room as well.

In the Kitchen

Something From Nothing: Fried Rice

Close-up of a metal spile inserted into a tree with sap dripping from the tap.

Backyard Gardening

Trees You Can Tap for Syrup Beyond Sugar Maples

Sage growing in a shady spot in the garden.

Backyard Gardening

Shaded Vegetable Gardens: Top Crops for Low Light Conditions

Hand milking a goat into a pail.

Homestead Animals

Homemade Teat Wash for Goats & Cows

Roast chicken is an easy meal that comes out of the oven sitting on top of its very own side dish. All I have to do is pour a couple glasses of milk (or wine) and dinner is ready.

In the Kitchen

Roast Chicken with Sweet Potato, Apple & Cranberry Stuffing

A permaculture vegetable garden.

Backyard Gardening

Improve Your Garden with These 8 Permaculture Herbs

The greatest thing about vermicomposting or composting with worms is that anyone is able to do it, regardless of how much space they have.

Backyard Gardening

Why You Should Be Composting with Worms {Vermicomposting}

A well-maintained eco-friendly yard with a white upcycled fence in the background.

Backyard Gardening

How to Create an Eco-Friendly Yard & Garden on Your Homestead

Move a portion of your garden south. How? you might ask. It is simple, with a greenhouse! You just need to find your correct greenhouse for your goals.

Backyard Gardening

Move a Portion of Your Garden South

Two chickens walking down a path that was shoveled off from snow.

Homestead Animals

Where to Free Range Chickens in Winter: Dealing with Snow

A dog in the bathtub having his head scrubbed.

Homestead Animals

The Ultimate Guide to Making Homemade Dog Shampoo

Why Have My Laying Hens Stopped Laying Eggs? Learn Why It Happens

Homestead Animals

Why Have My Laying Hens Stopped Laying Eggs? Learn Why It Happens

Simple Cut Out Sugar Cookies with Natural, Yet Vibrant, Rainbow Icing

In the Kitchen

Simple Cut Out Sugar Cookies with Natural, Yet Vibrant, Rainbow Icing

Fried chicken on a wooden cutting board with fresh veggies in the background.

In the Kitchen

Make KFC-Style Fried Chicken at Home with Healthier Ingredients

These old-fashioned rolled oat cookies are excellent for gift giving. You can gift them as drop cookies or use cookie cutters and make sandwiches out of them.

In the Kitchen

Rolled Oat Sandwich Cookies with Caramel Apple Frosting

Roosters show aggression for a variety of reasons. They perceive you as a threat or they want to dominate you. Occasionally, your rooster will just be a jerk.

Homestead Animals

A Non-Aggressive Approach to Aggressive Roosters

A plate of chewy pumpkin cookies drizzled with a glossy maple icing, with one cookie broken in half to show the soft interior.

In the Kitchen

Chewy Pumpkin Cookies with Maple Glaze: Perfect for Fall Baking