Homestead Mamas Homestead Ingenuity Rachel lives with her husband and son on 8 1/2 acres in Central Kentucky. They have a multi species homestead which includes chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, honeybees, pigs, dairy sheep, and a milk cow. In her dwindling spare time she spins and knits. She recently published her first book ‘The Guide to Homestead Dairy Sheep’ with Sawdust Publishing earlier this year. I began my homesteading journey from the perspective of a Nutritional Therapist, closet herbalist, and beekeeper. This mentally gave me a few barriers to diving into the conventio ..read more

Homestead Mamas Start Milling at Home For well over a decade, Felicia has been making bread the old-fashioned way. She mills her grains on site on her Florida homestead and bakes delicious and highly nutritious foods to keep her large family satisfied and strong. In 2021, she started the YouTube channel, Grains & Grit, to help others unlock the health and simplicity of biblical whole grains. Her passion for real bread and real grains is obvious to the many thousands who benefit from her videos, podcasts, emails, and courses. Top 5 Things You Need to Start Milling at Home   ..read more

Homestead Mamas Deeply Rooted Laura Hill is a Christian, wife, mother, artist, and homemaker, residing in the hills of Auburntown Tennessee. She and her family live on her family’s 272 acre beef cattle farm, where they spend their time gardening, learning to homestead, and growing as a family, all while trying to honor the Lord together.      I am not well traveled. I’ve never flown on a plane. I’ve never been north of Ohio or west of Texas.I’m not as well traveled as some may say one should be, but this piece of land has housed all of my fondest memories. &nbs ..read more

Homestead Mamas Make The Mistake Tara was raised in a lot of places, first on a mixed farm with her parents and grandparents, then to Grande Prairie Alberta, out to a off grid elk ranch, then when that blew up back to Grande Prairie. Now she still lives in Alberta, about an hour and a half from the capital. In the fall of 2019 her, her husband and two children bought 160 acres, the spring of 2021 found them buying 40 acres across the road for her in-laws to have their dream of being an acreage realized.    She was raised with raising meat animals, hunting, canning, gardening ..read more

Homestead Mamas The Fruits of Our Labor Alyssa Bricker: homeschooling, homesteading, and hoping in Jesus. Along with her husband, Benjamin, who works full-time outside of the home and also leads worship at their local church, they are raising and homeschooling seven beautiful children, while building their home debt free.   Alyssa and Benjamin purchased their forty acres six years ago and continue to work on building their home and farm as they can. Alyssa is a lover of all things beautiful which inspires her as an artist.   She believes that homesteading is a beautiful blessing b ..read more

Homestead Mamas when we choose to live closely bonded with the land… elisa rathje lives, writes and films the small work* at appleturnover, a small farm on a small island.   appleturnover is home to a pair of little milk goats, a trio of geese, a flock of chickens and runner ducks, a small homeschooling family of artists, writers and filmmakers, as well as a charming farm cat. the micro-farm is part walled kitchen garden, part silvopasture.   all 1 ½ acres of this century-old heritage apple orchard are filling up with a forest of food, fibre, fodder, fuel and medicinals, with ..read more

Homestead Mamas Born in the Wrong Time Chasity and her husband Shannon live on a small homestead in Georgia. Together they have four wonderful children, a sweet son in law, and a precious grandson that they adore, and another grand baby on the way! They raise Nubian goats, kune kune pigs, chickens for eggs and meat, ducks, geese, turkeys, and bees. Chasity tends a garden each year and does her best to “put by” lots of good, wholesome, food for her ever growing family.    Most days, just like her mother and grandmothers, Chasity can be found in the kitchen. Making breads, sipping c ..read more

Homestead Mamas Involving Our Children Rebecca is a homesteader, homemaker, and homeschool mama of 2 precious little girls and wife to her husband. 8 months ago they sold our homestead property in pursuit of a different property with more opportunity for development.   Not only are they building a home, but barns, chicken coops, gardens, and a greenhouse. The list could go on… As homesteaders there are many instances when we are creating things that hold a certain level of risk, or even where we need to keep our concentration on the task at hand. When I first started doing more ar ..read more

Homestead Mamas The Family Cow Ever wonder what might happen if a Durham native and an British immigrant with a shared passion for animals decided to settle down and start a farm just north of Durham NC? Well, now you don’t have to! Twenty eight years, three kids and a thriving farm later, Samantha and Scott are still working hard to bring you fresh from the farm milk, eggs, lamb, pork, homestead sausages, dog treats and more. I really love my jersey cows. I don’t know how to explain it, I just know it to be a fact. I never would have guessed it growing up in the UK on concrete even t ..read more

Homestead Mamas Forest Farming Amateur Kayla is a brand new homesteader in the mountains outside of Boise, Idaho. She and her husband, Benjamin, have four children. She is jumping into homesteading head first, and she believes that all of her steps are ordered by God. She’s learning everything from scratch and on the fly. She left her urban life last summer to start a small farm in the forest with big dreams she’d never thought possible. You can follow her adventures on Instagram @kbridgeh2o I kept our sheep a secret. After mentioning to a friend that I was thinking about gettin ..read more