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

Homestead Animals

How to Prepare Your Chicken House & Barn for Winter

A polytunnel set up in a backyard garden.

Backyard Gardening

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.

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]

In the Kitchen

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

Shortbread Pinwheel Cookies: Perfect for Every Holiday

In the Kitchen

Shortbread Pinwheel Cookies: Perfect for Every Holiday

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

In the Kitchen

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

Bake Better Cookies from Scratch: 8 Tricks I Wish I Knew Sooner

In the Kitchen

Bake Better Cookies from Scratch: 8 Tricks I Wish I Knew Sooner

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.

In the Kitchen

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.

Backyard Gardening

Miracle Marigold Flowers

A bunch of chicken eggs in different colors.

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.

In the Kitchen

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.

In the Kitchen

Store Food for Optimal Freshness

Close-up of red and yellow tulips blooming in a homestead garden with a rustic wooden fence in the background.

Backyard Gardening

How to Grow a Backyard Tulip Garden on Your Homestead

A chicken flying in the backyard.

Homestead Animals

How to Clip Chicken Wings and Keep Your Flock Safe

Not everyone loves veggies, but hiding vegetables in your recipes can get your family eating healthier without even knowing it. Kid friendly!

In the Kitchen

Hiding Vegetables from Picky Eaters: 3 Easy Recipes

Broccoli is a vegetable that I find incredibly difficult to harvest. It's not actually the harvesting part that is difficult, it's the timing that's hard.

Backyard Gardening

When to Harvest Broccoli

Soap nuts falling out of a mason jar onto burlap.

Simple Living Skills

Discover the Magic of Soap Nuts: More Than Just Laundry

You might be wondering when is the right time to switch to the next stage of feed. Timelines for those using commercial feed. Plus, feeding roosters, drakes, toms.

Homestead Animals

When to Switch Your Poultry’s Feed

A rustic wooden recipe box filled with handwritten cards sits on a weathered blue table, surrounded by measuring spoons, dried herbs, and a ceramic pie plate—capturing the charm of a well-loved homestead kitchen.

In the Kitchen

Homestead Kitchen Supplies: 12 Must-Have Tools That Work Hard

A canvas and a crochet netted reusable bag.

Simple Living Skills

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: 15 DIY Reusable Totes for Every Day

Folded orange bed sheets.

Simple Living Skills

Don’t Toss Them Out! Upcycle Your Old Bed Sheets

Many people wonder when and how to prune their tomatoes. What are tomato suckers? How do you remove them? When shouldn't you remove tomato suckers?

Backyard Gardening

Should You Remove Tomato Suckers

Why a hen sings after laying an egg and what the Egg Song sounds like. It will be music to your ears when you get your first chickens.

Homestead Animals

How Much Noise Do Hens Make? The Egg Song

Today I am going to share with you one of my favorite peanut butter recipes. Homemade peanut butter cups. It will be sure to delight everyone.

In the Kitchen

Yummy Peanut Butter Cups

A group of hens eating fermented feed from a circular feeder on a dirt floor.

Homestead Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed for Healthier Birds and Lower Costs

4 Cheese Baked Macaroni & Cheese: Homestyle Goodness from Scratch

In the Kitchen

4 Cheese Baked Macaroni & Cheese: Homestyle Goodness from Scratch

Herbs and herbal supplies laid out on a dark wood table.

Simple Living Skills

The Top Reasons to Start Crafting Your Own Herbal Remedies

A stack of soft homemade flour tortillas on a wooden plate, ready to serve.

In the Kitchen

Easy Homemade Tortillas (No Special Tools Needed!)

A sunny vegetable garden with shadows over the herbs.

Backyard Gardening

Sun Map 101: An Easy Guide to Mapping the Sun Without Gadgets

A wire basket filled with farm fresh eggs of various colors, with a small feather resting on top.

Homestead Animals

Essential Egg Handling Tips: Keeping Farm Fresh Eggs Safe

I am excited to share this awesome natural deodorant recipe with you. Not only because it works when you're perspiring, but it also cuts back on the amount of perspiration over time.

Simple Living Skills

How to Make Natural Deodorant Fast and Easy

Swales are an amazing permaculture implementation for your homestead - It's a designing system that work harder than you do.

Backyard Gardening

Swales are Just Swell for the Homestead

There is much debate on whether or double digging is a good idea. May big-time gardening experts say you should, other say "no way! It destroys the soil!"

Backyard Gardening

To Dig or Not to Dig: Double Digging

Jessica Knowles smiling with her black and white dog on her homestead, showcasing the joy of farm life.

Homestead Inspiration

Backyard Dreams to a Thriving Business: My Homestead Story

Learn what you need to candle, how to candle, when to candle and what you are looking for when you are candling chicken or duck eggs.

Homestead Animals

Your Guide to Candling Hatching Eggs

Close-up of a freshly baked artisan bread with an airy, open crumb.

In the Kitchen

12 Bread Baking Tips & Tricks for Perfect Homemade Loaves

Do-it-Yourself Chicken Egg Incubator Ideas for Less Than $50

Homestead Animals

Do-it-Yourself Chicken Egg Incubator Ideas for Less Than $50

Dehydrated orange slices, cinnamon sticks, and star anise potpourri.

Simple Living Skills

Create a Natural and Fruity-Scented Home: DIY Potpourri

A stuffed dog drying on a clothesline.

Simple Living Skills

A DIY Solution for Surface-Clean-Only Items

Two white ducks and a white chicken in an outdoor run, facing each other near a wire fence.

Homestead Animals

Can Chickens and Ducks Live Together? Real Tips That Work

Clean pans that have been stained with cooking spray naturally and discover how to avoid getting stains again with homemade cooking spray.

Simple Living Skills

Removing Cooking Spray Residue & Prevent It with Homemade Spray

A bowl of blue chicken eggs on a wooden table.

Homestead Animals

The Chicken Breeds That Lay Beautiful Blue Eggs