Why homestead and why write about it?

I haven’t really even started writing “blogging” about our homestead and I am already being asked why. Why do I want to write about it? Wont that make even more work? It’s just doing it going to be hard enough? Seriously, why do we do anything? There is usually a rational reason as to why…

Dehydrated Bananas

One of the ways we are preserving food and wasting a lot less is dehydrating. Banana chips are one of our kids favorite snacks. Honestly we get the bananas out of the discount bin but make sure they are still firm and not mushy and guess what? There is nothing wrong with them. I know…

Our story

Hello and welcome to our homestead! We are budding homesteaders wanting to share the trials and triumphs of starting from the ground up. I have a family background with gardening. My Mom comes from a family of farmers both big and small. Well I guess in reality medium and small. Mom has one of the…