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What are the best crops to grow for cold winter storage

15 Best Vegetable Crops to Grow for Cold Winter Storage

How to speak chicken book and calendar must have for chicken lovers

How to Speak Chicken Book and Calendar Review

child learning how to be a beekeeper in a kid size beekeeping suit with veil and using the smoker to smoke hives

Introducing the Chicken Wrangler

Collage of farm animals to introduce the critters on our Montana homestead

Meet the Critters on Our Homestead

Learning to make a cheap and easy worm composting bin for vermicomposting

How to Make a Cheap and Easy Worm Composting Bin

Easy No Cook Homemade Yogurt

How to clean out a chicken coop in winter tips and tricks for cold weather coop cleaning

How to Clean out the Chicken Coop in Winter

Learn how to harvest compost from a vermicomposting worm bin

How to harvest compost from a worm bin

Learn how to know when to plant garden seeds in your area

How do I Know When to Start Garden Seeds

How to Hatch Chicks at Home with an Incubator

Learn how to tap trees to make syrup in your backyard

How to Tap Trees and Make Syrup in Your Backyard

20 free seed starting pots from reused and repurposed items

20 Free DIY Seed Starting Pots

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!