Welcome to my Homestead Kitchen

Explore from-scratch recipes, canning, bread baking, dairy, and preserving guides for your homestead kitchen. Real food made at home.

Quick & Easy Recipes

Not everything in the homestead kitchen has to take all day. These recipes come together fast and are perfect for weeknights, beginners, or whenever you want something homemade without the fuss.

Easy No-Knead Artisanal Bread Recipe Fresh bread at home doesn’t have to be complicated. This no-knead recipe gives you a gorgeous artisan loaf with minimal effort — a perfect starting point for any home baker.

• How to Grow Sprouts for Salads and Sandwiches
• How to Make Almond Butter from Scratch
• How to Make Homemade Veggie Broth
• How to Make Homemade Hummus

What’s New in Our Kitchen

DIY: How to Make Almond Extract

Making homemade extracts is so fun and easy and can add a huge range of homemade flavor to your baked

How to Make Homemade Yogurt

Homemade yogurt might just be my favorite thing to make on our homestead - it is delicious and so easy!

How to Make Butter

Nothing is more delicious (and easier to make) than fresh, yellow and creamy butter! Learning how to make butter seemed

How to Boil Maple Syrup from Sap

Once you've collected sap from your maple trees, it's time to turn your sap into syrup. In this article we'll

Farm to Table Through the Year

 Today I am so excited to finally share the newest ebook brought to you by the Backyard Farming Connection!  This

Baking Your Own Bread: Everyday Oatmeal Honey Bread

Bread is a staple on our homestead and this oatmeal honey bread is our favorite.  We call this our everyday

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Build Your Homestead Kitchen Skills

These are the foundational skills that change the way you cook and stock your kitchen. Learn them once and you’ll use them for life.

How to Make Sourdough Starter for your Homestead Kitchen: Sourdough starter is the foundation of real from-scratch bread baking. This step-by-step guide shows you exactly how to create and maintain your own starter using just flour and water.

Essential Skills:

• How to Make Jam, Jelly and Preserves
• How to Make Easy Homemade Cream Cheese
• How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract

Thoughts from my Homestead Kitchen

One of my favorite things about cooking from scratch, especially when you’re growing your own food, is how quickly it becomes second nature. You stop thinking about it as extra work and start seeing it as just the way things are done. A few things that have made a huge difference for me over the years: keep a scrap bag in your freezer (seriously, this alone will change your kitchen), grow at least a few herbs because fresh herbs make everything taste better, and don’t be afraid to improvise. The best homestead cooking comes from using what you have, not from following a recipe perfectly. Once you start connecting the dots between the garden and the kitchen, you’ll find that the food you grow yourself just tastes different, better, and that’s really what all of this is about.

Read: 25 Food Preservation Skills Every Homesteader Should Know (canning, fermenting, drying, curing)