Cookbook Club Podcast
Modern homesteaders are often avid home-cooks, and I am no exception. In case you are too, I wanted to make […]
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cooking, recipes
Backyard Rain Garden
Incorporating a rain garden into our homestead allows us to weave natural processes into our backyard. We can still grow
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design, ecology, garden, green living, modern homesteading, projects, rainwater harvesting
2020 Vegetable Garden Plan
This is the most well-thought through vegetable garden I’ve ever created. Take a look at the plan I created, get
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design, garden, modern homesteading, raised beds, seeds, tips, vegetables, winter vegetables
Perfect Pumpkin Puree
You can easily substitute fresh pumpkin for canned pumpkin, but a couple extra steps are needed to ensure the final
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garden
Homesteading with Kids
This is what homesteading with children looks like. Fox, now a toddler, picked these precious San Marzano tomatoes, which he’s
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garden, kids, kids, modern homesteading
Homestead Update: Year Five
Can you believe we’ve been digging our roots into this homestead for five years already? I’m returning for intermittent blogging
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garden
Welcome Baby Fox
Here we are on the winter solstice, nearly three months after welcoming our sweet baby Fox. I hope you spend
One More Seat
It turns out there was one more seat at our family table. We get to welcome a baby boy into
ASLA Award Winner
I was recently presented with a Community Service Award from the Oregon Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architecture
Roasting Chanterelle Mushrooms
I spend a good chunk of the fall foraging for wild mushrooms, specifically chanterelles, around the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
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food preservation, foraging, freezing, green living, harvest, modern homesteading, mushrooms