Flower Cookies
Roxanne // Happy Holistic Homestead
Flower cookies are simple and elegant at the same time. Edible flowers are a wonderful way to add beauty and nutrition to any dish or dessert!
Categories: Homesteader // Homemaker
Flower cookies are simple and elegant at the same time. Edible flowers are a wonderful way to add beauty and nutrition to any dish or dessert!
It is interesting when we have people out to our farm for the first time. Most of my peers buy their food from Walmart or Whole Foods, and it is rare for them to have stepped foot onto a farm, unless you count places like petting zoos or pumpkin patches…
Homemade Feta Cheese Recipe
This cheese recipe is great for someone just starting out with cheesemaking. You needn’t figure out pressing, or a designated aging area. All you really need is a few gallons of good quality raw milk, a few simple ingredients, and a pot to fit it all in…
I forgot my cheeses in the presses again, jar lids are strewn from one end of the house to the other, my kitchen twine pulled out of a low drawer, and stretched around chair legs, dishes piled high in the sink, a load of diapers waiting to go into the wash; its just another typical day. A showcasing of my life as a mother to 3 young children, a homesteader, rancher and homestead cheesemaker.
Do you like to know what you eat? Do you highly value a short food supply chain ? That means you know how important to grow your own veggies and fruits. Vegetables sold in supermarkets are usually produced on big-scale, gigantic farms. Ever wondered why supermarkets sell tropical melons in wintertime?
Hello! My name is Melody and I am the mama and homesteader at our little home that we like to call Woodhaven Way. I have four girls and a boy ranging in ages from 10 to 2 years old. We live in the Minnesota big woods, across the river from where Laura Ingalls grew up in the little town of Pepin, Wisconsin. Life on our side of the big woods (across the Mississippi) is fairly similar to what you may have read about in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book: we have cold winters and hot summers, we make maple syrup, hunt deer, and grow as many crops as our short growing season allows. We forage through the woods for foods we use to make jams and we enjoy a good square dance and pie making contest with the best of them.
We moved into a house on a hill in rural Nova Scotia in 2017, we had two dogs, two children
and two small acres of land. I bought myself a chicken coop and four chickens that summer and
planted some vegetable seeds in hopes to be a bit more self sustainable. I romanticized having
a dairy cow in my backyard but dismissed the dream as simply that and onward we went. Fast
forward three and a half years and we are full on farming, it is hard and fulfilling and a lifestyle I
know will be ours for the rest of our lives. I have my dairy cow in the backyard, and make
everything from butter to yogurt to cheese with her daily bounty – I am exhausted and deeply
content, and a life I once romanticized, I am now living.
Initially, following being contact to takeover Homestead Mamas, my thoughts were “This is an awesome opportunity” and “I grow food in my backyard, is that a homestead?” In pure me fashion (big ball of anxiety hehehe) with sweaty palms and an overly active heart beat the thought crossed my mind to message the representative of to explain that I’d love to do the takeover but tmy little plot really wasn’t a homestead. Clearly I fought that moment of anxiety because here I am! I’m here and super exited to have this opportunity to share the next 3 days with you all! Thank you Homestead Mamas!
I’m not like most Homestead Mamas, and honestly I’m okay with that.
I’ve always kinda swam up stream, been the brunt of a lot of eye rolls, and been happy to be “different.”
But when it comes to homesteading? I’m an Accidental Homesteader, plain and simple.
I love to use all-natural sugars whenever possible. So revamping one of our family’s favorite desserts—caramel popcorn—to have a yummy dose of maple syrup made me super happy.
I grew the most amazing carrot crop this year! Seriously, I have been harvesting for months from a 50 ft bed that I sowed in August. It’s January now, and after multiple hard frosts, I am still digging them up!
When I was pregnant, I had images of walking around the garden with a baby wrapped up on my chest in a gorgeous fabric carrier. People offered all the cliche warnings about how my life will never be the same. But I was a homesteader after all, and homesteaders just make things work. Looking back at that pre-motherhood version of myself makes me thankful for my innocence. I didn’t have any clue what was coming.
I believe in cooking healthy delicious meals for my family and to be breakfast is the most important! It starts the day and gets us fueled for whatever homestead adventure we may come across.
These pecan waffles are a favorite and perfect for the whole family! Plant-based and GF they are also for anyone with allergies as well! Little Ava has been helping me much more in the kitchen and it’s so fun to have her be a part of all we do!
Hi friends! I’m so happy to share our story with you! Our life together did not start with homesteading and life in the country. We were married and lived in the suburbs for 10 years before we took a leap of faith and moved out into the country. It’s been almost 5 years now and if you would have told me almost 15 years ago when we married that I would absolutely love being out on the farm shoveling poop with a baby on my hip, gathering veggies from our garden, and living far away from the grocery store I would have said you were crazy.
I chose to share this granola recipe because it has been a staple in our home for the last 4 years!! We make this recipe 2-3 times a month and sometimes even weekly! Store bought cereal is something that just does not fit the nutritional guidelines of our family!
My husband and I were both born and raised in the Old Order Mennonite community commonly referred to as ‘horse and buggy mennonites’. In short, this means we grew up in a culture that practiced self sufficiency and traditional living for generations.
I grew up having to milk the family cow each morning before riding my bike to the one room school I attended with my 8 siblings.
There’s a misconception that homesteading begins with land. I’d say that homesteading begins with the posture of your heart and a little curiosity. In my case it first fleshed itself out with a loaf of bread.
As a homesteading mom who also works part time, I am always looking for nutritious, yummy, and quick dinners. This is our family favorite. It’s simple, quick, and is very adaptable. You can use almost any veggies and you can even change the meat too or simply make it as a vegan dish. It’s great if you eat seasonally from your garden, because almost any veggies can be used in this recipe!
Our family loves this recipe. It’s a comfort food that in the summer months uses almost all the ingredients from our garden and farm! My favourite kind of meal! You can substitute the veg for anything you have in your fridge and have a glass of red wine while you cook, because you opened the bottle anyways! I do not recommend putting the pie in the oven and running out to check goats. Because no doubt you’ll get caught up in something and burn dinner. Just a little, BUT I threw some sunflower micro greens on top, and it still tasted great!
You’ll see that the exact time of each step will change according to the season and the temperature of the room in which you’ll make the bread.
What if I told you that we did actually not have a project to end up up here? What if I told you that I was brought up as a town girl, and to be a political scientist (whatever that means…)? What if I told you that until my thirties I was not very good at cooking and doing stuff with my hands in general? Probably you would not believe me, as many people don’t. But that’s the truth.
It was a hot September night. The air was heavy as summer lingered on and the sun set slowly over the Pacific. I was making my way slowly but surely up the old familiar hill to my frentors’ (friend+mentor) home to celebrate the life of their then youngest daughter. It was her birthday. And while overjoyed to celebrate her, my heart was heavy.