💸 $5 Seasoning I’ll Never Buy Again One of my favorite parts of learning to cook from scratch is realizing how many things I don’t need to buy anymore. Breakfast sausage seasoning was one of the first to go. Instead of buying seasoning packets filled with ingredients I can’t pronounce, I m

🐔🌿 Chicken & Duck Coop Herb Garden Upgrade 🌺✨ This started out really simple—we found a shepherd’s hook hidden in the garage and hung two petunia baskets near the coop for the chickens and ducks. After setting it up, I realized something—the birds were interested in the flowers, but they

🐦 How I Made a DIY Hummingbird Station for My Garden 🌺 I wanted to attract more hummingbirds to our garden while keeping the feeder in sight from our porch, so I started researching the best ways to bring them in. I learned that hummingbirds are attracted to bright colors like ❤️ red, 🩷 pink,

STOP buying garlic bread. Seriously. 🧄✨ I threw this together last night using pantry staples and… I’m not kidding… it’s BETTER than store-bought. Now I keep a jar on hand at all times. 🔥 GARLIC BREAD BUTTER MIX Stir 1–2 tbsp into ½ cup softened butter → spread on bread → toast → done.

I ACCIDENTALLY STARTED A FARM OVERNIGHT 🐥🫠 I went to get two chicks. TWO. But first—my fiancé surprised me with an Amish-built chicken coop (basically my wedding, birthday, and Christmas gift all in one 😂). So naturally… chicken math kicked in before the coop even arrived. My friend and

Lately I’ve been really proud of the little life we’re building 🤍 • Got engaged to my best friend — and honestly still can’t believe I get to marry him • Accepted a 2nd grade teaching position after receiving FOUR offers (3 new opportunities + an offer to stay where I am). Feeling so confident

2026 is the year of doing everything except scrolling. Not in a dramatic, delete-all-apps kind of way. Just in a quiet, intentional, I want my life back kind of way. Instead, I’m choosing slow living and hands-on skills: 🍞 baking from scratch — real ingredients, real time, real nourishmen

Apparently sourdough is a trend now 🙃 But sourdough isn’t cute. It’s messy. It lives on your counter. It smells weird sometimes. It takes patience, failure, and consistency. I add it to everything—muffin mixes, cake mixes, pancakes, biscuits, pizza dough—because it’s not about being trend

✨ 2025 Recap from a Wannabe Homesteader ✨ This year was slower. Messier. A little muddy. And exactly what my soul needed 🌾 I spent 2025 learning old skills, growing food from seed, and figuring out how to rely less on the store and more on what we can make at home. Not perfect. Not Pinterest

This Thanksgiving, I gave my sourdough a glow-up: pumpkin pie with a little heart in the middle ❤️ + apple pie using the filling I canned this fall. Little things like this hit different—reminds me of my grandma who made everything from scratch. Feels like a cozy little hug from her every time I

Not to spill too much… but Midwestern winter has been rough this year. South Dakota is serving blizzards, freezing temps, and gray skies on repeat. Honestly? The winter blues are hitting hard, and some days it’s just… heavy. Here’s my tea on what’s keeping me somewhat sane: 🦌 Hunting + Cow Th

Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar Tea — From-Scratch, Fermented, Clean-Ingredient ACV Making your own apple cider vinegar (ACV) at home is easy, affordable, and perfect for gut health, digestion, and natural wellness. No weird additives, no store-bought shortcuts — just clean, homemade, fermented goo

🌾 Stir the Pot Challenge: Homestead Pantry Edition Normal people buy box mixes. Homesteaders make ALL the mixes from scratch. 😉 This week I stocked my from-scratch pantry with every homemade dry mix people usually toss in their cart: 🥞 DIY pancake mix 🧁 Homemade muffin mix 🍪 Cookie + br

For my planner girlies, wannabe planner girlies, homestead ladies, and grandmacore lovers—this is my planner bible. My brain has two settings: a thought plays on repeat until I’m overwhelmed, or it disappears completely. Once it’s on paper, everything settles. As I lean into self-sufficiency and

Everyone talks about “things that fill my cup” — but around here, I like to think of it as filling my jar. My jar is full of the little pieces that make this simple, from-scratch life so special. Fresh homemade food that fills the kitchen with warmth, healthy cattle out on green pastures, and ve

Homestead Wedding Registry Thoughts ✨ Alright homestead ladies… what are you putting on your wedding registry? 👀 We’ve been together for 4 ½ years and living together for 4 — and honestly, we’ve already remodeled a home together. When we moved, we slowly upgraded the old things we had, so now

I like to be alone… but my kind of alone looks a little different. It’s the kind of peace you find on a quiet morning feeding cattle, watching your breath rise in the cool air while the sky turns pink over the pasture. The kind of alone that smells like hay and fresh coffee, not loneliness. M

What I Made This Week as a Wannabe Homesteader 🍅🫙 Hunting season is in full swing around here — my boyfriend harvested a beautiful antelope this week, so we’ve officially added a new animal to the freezer 🦌❄️ With the garden getting pulled out, I’ve been busy using up the last of the season’s

✨DIY Game Day Sweatshirt | Quilted & Hand Embroidered Dallas Cowboys Outfit💙 Lately I’ve been getting back into all the “grandma hobbies” — sewing, quilting, and embroidery. The kind of slow, hands-on projects that feel comforting and creative at the same time 🪡💙 When I wanted a cute Dallas