• The Homestead Dream

    Do We Plant Anyway?

    April 15, 2020 - By 

    As I hinted at in my latest Homestead Weekly post, we have a Big Life Decision we’re trying to dissect over here. Although it’s not 100% sure at this point, it’s looking pretty likely that the company Matt works for is moving the business three hours south of us to Central Utah. If we want, he still has his job…if we’re willing to move down there. The way I see it, we basically have three options right now: 1 – Move with the company and keep his same job, 2 – Find another job here in Cache County and stay…

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    The Homestead Weekly, 12 April 2020

    April 13, 2020 - By 

    In the Kitchen I feel like I’m going through a mourning period in the kitchen. Before, I was baking batches of chocolate chip cookies every other day, trying recipe after recipe to see if I could narrow it down to a few favorites (I never really could); I was pinning quick bread recipes to dream up new uses for browned bananas and wrinkled carrots; I was dreaming of the cakes I would make out of The Baking Bible (aff link), which was a Christmas gift to myself I bought with some gift money I’d received. Now, ever since Matt’s celiac…

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    The Homestead Weekly, 5 April 2020

    April 6, 2020 - By 

    In the Kitchen I braved the world outside on Wednesday and went shopping at two different grocery stores, with the plan in mind of not having to go again for the rest of the month (or *maybe* going once for milk and produce and Diet Dr. Pepper…you know, the essentials). Neither store had toilet paper, and when I had Matt go to a third store on Thursday and he also couldn’t find any, it looks like we’ll have to do that other stop for sure since we’ll run out in about a week and a half. The stores were also…

  • Breads - Recipes

    Mama Sherry’s Wheat Bread for Hungry Boys

    April 4, 2020 - By 

    My mother-in-law Sherry raised five boys, and when we all get together with my husband’s family, the stories of how much they all could eat growing up are legendary. My husband Matt often talks fondly of a day in high school when he ate his way through an entire loaf of bread, making one PB & J after another, until there was nothing left but crumbs. As I’ve gotten to know my mother-in-law more over the nearly 9 years I’ve been married to Matt, I have found that she is one of those cooks who possesses that sense of intuition…

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    The Homestead Weekly, 28 March 2020

    March 30, 2020 - By 

    Like most of the rest of the world, we’re sheltering in place at the moment and learning to live with the new restrictions put in place from the COVID-19 pandemic. Each Sunday, I create a weekly to-do list in my notebook, complete with a weekly menu and a mini day-by-day calendar of what we have coming up. It was pretty weird (not to mention a tad depressing) to see that, once my oldest daughter’s preschool was cancelled this week, the calendar held…nothing. So, in order to keep from going crazy, we’ve been scheduling out events and plans and projects that…

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    Goals - Monthly To-Do List

    Early Spring To-Do List (March + April 2020)

    March 25, 2020 - By 

    After a long winter where most of the homestead skills happened inside (mostly in the kitchen), we’ve been eagerly anticipating the lengthening days and the return of the sunshine to our valley. Now that we can expect most days to at least hit the 40’s or 50’s in temperature, we’re raring to go on our outdoor to-do list for the year. Here are our plans for early spring (from now until the end of April): Note: There are affiliate links below, which means we may get a small commission on any purchases made through these links at no extra cost…

  • About Us - Goals - The Homestead Dream

    The Dream, The Goal, The Plan

    March 25, 2020 - By 

    The Dream My husband Matt and I are dreamers. One of our favorite things to talk about is the future—what would we do if we had X amount of money? What house projects do we want to try and tackle next? What hobbies are we wanting to pick up? What business ventures would be fun to try out? But for the past few years, our #1 Very Favorite Dream is… A Homestead. It’s hard to say when the dream started, exactly. More than anything, it’s something that’s evolved slowly over time, as we’ve experimented with paring down our possessions, looking…