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

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Understanding Gardening Zones & Frost Dates for Better Planting

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

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

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

Breakfast cookies are, of course, always a big hit with kids. With applesauce and flax seed, the kiddos have no clue that what they're chowing down on is H-E-A-L-T-H-Y.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Oatmeal Raisin Breakfast Cookies

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.

Explore Real-Life Inspiring Homesteads

The Sustainable Couple: Kelli’s Homestead

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

Raising Healthy and Happy 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.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Oven Crepes Recipes & Maple Cream Cheese Filling

A snow-covered garden in the backyard.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Winter Sowing Tips: Seed Starting by Zone + Additional Info

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

Raising Healthy and Happy 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.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Small Space Vegetable Gardening: Tips for Growing More in Less

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

Simple and Sustainable Homestead Living Tips

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.

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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.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Pickled Wild Onions in Honey-Rosemary Brine

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

Raising Healthy and Happy 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.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Something From Nothing: Fried Rice

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

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Trees You Can Tap for Syrup Beyond Sugar Maples

Sage growing in a shady spot in the garden.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Shaded Vegetable Gardens: Top Crops for Low Light Conditions

Hand milking a goat into a pail.

Raising Healthy and Happy 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.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Roast Chicken with Sweet Potato, Apple & Cranberry Stuffing

A permaculture vegetable garden.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

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.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Why You Should Be Composting with Worms {Vermicomposting}

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

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

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.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Move a Portion of Your Garden South

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

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

Where to Free Range Chickens in Winter: Dealing with Snow

A dog in the bathtub having his head scrubbed.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

The Ultimate Guide to Making Homemade Dog Shampoo

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

Raising Healthy and Happy 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

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

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

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

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

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.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

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.

Raising Healthy and Happy 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.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Chewy Pumpkin Cookies with Maple Glaze: Perfect for Fall Baking

A lean-to style chicken coop with a red door in a snowy backyard.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

How to Prepare Your Chicken House & Barn for Winter

A polytunnel set up in a backyard garden.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

How to Extend Your Growing Season with a Polytunnel

A carton filled with farm fresh eggs of varying colors, with one cracked open showing a deep orange yolk.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

Everything You Need to Know About Farm Fresh Eggs

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies [Regular or Gluten-Free with Bob’s 1-to-1]

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies [Regular or Gluten-Free with Bob’s 1-to-1]

Shortbread Pinwheel Cookies: Perfect for Every Holiday

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Shortbread Pinwheel Cookies: Perfect for Every Holiday

A jar of homemade pumpkin puree on a table with small pumpkins.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Fresh Flavors, Simple Steps: A Guide to Making Pumpkin Puree

8 Tricks for Extraordinary Cookies from Scratch You Need to Know

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

8 Tricks for Extraordinary Cookies from Scratch You Need to Know

Butterbeer is a Harry Potter inspired warm milk drink with a caramel and brown sugar kick. A huge hit with kids that enjoy the books and movies.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Yummy Butterbeer {alcohol free}

Marigolds flowers are more than just a pretty flower. They are miracle flowers. After reading this, you'll never look at a marigold flower the same way.

Grow a Thriving Backyard Garden with Practical Tips

Miracle Marigold Flowers

A bunch of chicken eggs in different colors.

Raising Healthy and Happy Homestead Animals

An Egg In Every Hue: The Secret to Getting Various Egg Colors

Two empty jelly-sized mason jars sitting on a counter with burlap in the background.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Water Bath Canning Recipes and Tips for New Canners

Proper storage of your common food items will increase their freshness duration and prevent premature spoiling. Learn how to store these foods correctly.

Wholesome Recipes and Real Food Inspiration

Store Food for Optimal Freshness