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
You can easily substitute fresh pumpkin for canned pumpkin, but a couple extra steps are needed to ensure the final
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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
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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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
Check out before-and-after photos, garden plans and lots of pretty photos of our homesteads. See how our current home is in
Spring is turning into summer in a blink this year and the homestead is in full swing. Here is a
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backyard livestock, chickens, garden, harvest, modern homesteading, soil health
LANDSCAPE DESIGN Renee Wilkinson received her masters degree in landscape architecture from the University of Oregon. She works as a
In 2011, Renee Wilkinson released her first book Modern Homestead: Grow, Raise, Create. Since then she has traveled across North
We finally settled on names for the newest additions to the backyard homestead. There were some really good suggestions from
