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

Homestead Mamas Babies, Business, and Bumper Crops Angela Miller is a mama homesteader to two sweet kiddos in Middle Tennessee. Alongside her husband, she raises her two dairy cows, a gentle giant guernsey and her sassy jersey, seasonal meat birds, a layer flock, and a garden for fun. Although Angela has been homesteading since she was a teen with her parents, she is always excited to learn something new and pursue a new hobby on the homestead. After a loss in their family, Angela realized the importance of community and how integral it is in all of our lives. She is committed to cultivat ..read more

Homestead Mamas Failing Bravely Kellyn of @the.well.nourished.home is a wife and homeschooling mother of five. She and her husband began homesteading in the desert of Phoenix, Arizona almost ten years ago. In the summer of 2021 they sold everything but their books, kids, and pets and traveled the country in an RV, finally settling in the Missouri Ozarks. Kellyn is passionate about literature, good quality home cooked food, and sharing how easy and affordable healthy lifestyle and nutrition changes can be. One year ago, I resolved that I would learn to make all of the bread prod ..read more

Homestead Mamas Frontier Homesteading Rachel is a homesteading mama who lives in Alaska with her three children. She is a childrens author and they have many animals on their homestead including dairy goats and pack goats, sheep and more!  Hey there, Homesteading Mama’s! I’m Rachel from @frontier_homesteading. My husband Ryan, three children and I have been homesteading for about 10 years now, first in Wyoming and now in Alaska.   We currently have milk goats, pack goats, sheep, a pig, a cow, chickens, rabbits, bees and a dog. Seasonally, we also have more pigs, meat chick ..read more

Homestead Mamas Making An Electuary Sarah from @momentsofmanna is a homeschooling mama to 7 (2 grown and flown, 5 still at home), who loves to create with her hands, dig deep and learn new things, wife of 20 years.   She doesn’t have all her ducks in a row, and her type B personality means flying by the seat of her pants most of the time…. But, she has a passion about sharing knowledge of all things herbal, homeopathic, homestead and doing life in the chaos that is life, with others, has a love of thrifting and handmade pottery, and is always searching for the Manna Moments. Let’s ..read more