Author: Annie Bernauer

Annie Bernauer is a certified Master Gardener and Master Naturalist. She enjoys writing about her family's adventures in modern day homesteading in Montana and helping others to learn these skills.

Jars of homemade canned rose hip jelly and fresh wild rose hips

How to make and can Rose Hip Jelly

Plate of delicious homemade sourdough pumpkin muffins

Sourdough Pumpkin Muffins Recipe

making sourdough starter from scratch with wild yeast

How to make and can Oregon Grape jelly

Dutch ovens stacked together with coals baking outside at camp in the snow

How to bake off grid in a dutch oven

Fermenting pickles in a crock and sliced fermented pickle to explain how to make fermented pickles

How to make fermented sour dill crock pickles

A bowl of crispy crunchy and delicious kale chips Montana Homesteader blog

How to make Crispy Crunchy Kale Chips

How to preserve leeks picture of leeks being chopped Montana Homesteader blog

How to preserve and freeze leeks

Chicken Coop buying guide with a picture of chickens and a chicken coop with attached run and exterior nest boxes

How to make and can or freeze applesauce and pear sauce

How to make and can elderberry jelly

How to make fermented sauerkraut with a picture of shredded cabbage being pounded to make sauerkraut and the final fermented sauerkraut in a handmade crock

How to make homemade fermented sauerkraut

Hello I'm Annie and welcome to our blog!

I was raised in an old farmhouse in the country and taught by three generations of women in my family to cook from scratch, can and preserve food, nurture plants to grow, craft with my hands, and live a simple, meaningful life. Now I'm teaching my own children these skills on our little homestead in Montana. I am a Master Gardener and a Master Naturalist and love helping others learn. I'm sharing these vintage skills here so you too can live a simple, more connected homemade life- one canning jar at a time!