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Heating with Wood on the Homestead
I’m a such a sucker for roaring fire. I grew up with wood heat, and to this day, if I’m in a house during winter without some sort of heat source to stand next to, my soul feels a bit empty. When we...
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When Homesteading Makes You Lonely…
Wide open spaces… Room to breathe… Few neighbors… No barking dogs… Room for the kids to run… Breathtaking views… They are all reasons I love to spout as being my favorite parts of living in the middle...
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What Homesteading Really Costs…
Homesteading can be deceiving. When you first get into it, it can seem so quaint, innocent, and simple. After all, what can be more romantic and simplistic than building a compost pile, canning your...
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How I (Don’t) Do it All
“I have SO MUCH extra time right now… What will I ever do with it all?” How many of you have ever said that? Hmmm… no one? No one at all? I’m pretty sure that’s a thought that’s never crossed my mind....
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7 Lessons My Kids Have Learned from Homestead Life
It was our second date… We were at Applebees, and I sat there chewing my cheeseburger as the future Prairie Husband told me of his dreams to own land and cattle someday. They were pretty audacious...
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Homestead Homeschooling: Year 3
“Eh… So… Are you still homeschooling?” I hear that question a lot. And I get it. I mean, doing school every single morning. With three kids (one being a wild toddler). While running a blog and our...
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Does This Homesteading Thing Really Matter?
A couple weeks ago I found myself talking to someone who didn’t have the faintest idea what homesteading was. It’s been quite a while since I’ve been around anyone completely unexposed to this...
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Practical Ways We Save Time On Our Homestead
Time and I have always had a complicated relationship. There have been seasons of my life with never enough time, seasons where I had too much time, and seasons where time seemed to expand to fit my...
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How Two City Kids Became Homesteaders
Nostalgia runs thick around here this time of year. Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of us purchasing our sad little Wyoming property and transforming it into the homestead life of our dreams. It’s...
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Because It’s Not About Canning and Chickens
I was a bored, pregnant newlywed 40 miles from civilization with not enough money to drive to activities in town. That’s how it all started. Not the most epic beginning to this story, I know…...
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The BIGGEST Homestead Mistakes We’ve Made (so far)
Ten years in, and if there’s a homestead mistake to be made, well, we’ve made it. From poisoning my garden, to rebuilding a certain fence line two separate times, to more kitchen disasters than I can...
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How to Set Homestead Goals You’ll Actually Achieve
I currently can’t breathe when I walk outside… That’s what below zero temps and crazy wind chills will do to ya. Thankfully, even though the outside portions of our homestead are deep in hibernation...
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How to Start Homesteading When You Feel Overwhelmed
Expansive veggie gardens. Flocks of laying hens. Chicken coop construction. Milk goats. Home baked bread. Just the normal to-do list for the average modern person in 2019, right? Hahahahahaha. Haha....
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4 Questions to Ask Yourself BEFORE You Start Your Homestead
I think I have cheerleader tendencies… No, not like a pom-pom carrying cheerleader, rather, I really, REALLY enjoy cheering others on in their homesteading pursuits. It makes me so stinkin’ happy....
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How We Support Our Homestead While Working from Home
To many folks, it might seem that we’re living the dream. We have the land…. the cows… the garden. And we’re entrepreneurs, which means Christian and I no longer have to drive to town and work for...
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Raising Old-Fashioned Kids in a High Tech World
I’m not a mommy blogger. But you probably already knew that, huh? It’s partially because I have little interest in telling folks how to raise their kids when I’m still trying to figure out how to...
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How to Start a Homestead Blog in 2020
The year was 2010… I was a brand new mom. I had quit my job as a Vet Tech to stay home with our firstborn, and even though I loved being home with her, I was CLIMBING THE WALLS. Our tight, one-income...
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Will My Kids Fall Behind? (And Other Homeschooling Questions)
I’ve never been this excited to get back to homeschooling… I’m in year five of this homeschool gig, so it’s not exactly a novelty anymore. Yet I’ve found myself literally counting down the days until...
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How to Organize Your Homestead with a Planner
One of the biggest struggles for Modern Homesteaders is figuring out good time-management strategies. One of the questions that I get frequently asked is: “How do you do it all? or How do you juggle...
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How to Create and Maintain Pasture Land
Raising our own grass-fed beef herd, having horses, and owning other grazing animals has really brought to light the importance of having a well-maintained pasture on our homestead. These days, it...
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