I am often asked if our Brain Tanning class can produce leathers like the ones used for carving, making shoes, or saddles. The quick answer is, No. But there’s more to it. The two materials are actually

Soft soled, beautifully adorned, natural, empowering. Moccasins are the connection between your feet and the earth. As such, they hold a place of special honour. Handmade moccasins, lovingly crafted deserve

Hello Lovely people! On this off grid homesteading journey of ours, we walked into it full well knowing that the most important things we could do were to secure Access, Water, and Shelter... Well...we

Welcome to 2019! You are going to hear so much today about resolutions, renewal, and the new you. I won't go quite that far. But I am going to mention that for every goal we set this year, there are 4

We are REALLY excited to share this program with you as we move into 2019! Making local food choices, becoming a producer in your own life, and reconnecting with our agrarian and hunter gatherer roots

Our Homesteading Journal Day Zero There are so many of you that I have missed and am excited to find still here and still going strong. I’m back after an entire spring, summer, and fall season away. We

Hey there lovelies! I’m balancing my desire to share stories about my first year off grid, homesteading in Northern Canada...and sharing all the exciting things we are up to now. To ease back in, I’m going

My goodness everyone...it feels like a lifetime ago that I was here. I have spent the last 8 months building up my off grid homestead and what a ride its been. I have so much to share and so many topics

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I waited sooooo long to learn how to make cheese. I was milking two Jerseys and drowning in milk before I finally had the opportunity to learn some simple, natural cheese making methods. However, cheese

Today I share step by step instructions on how I make Mozza with pictures and video. Making cheese is a passion of mine. I love cheese, but I also love the independence that it gives me to make what would

As a child I was intrigued by culture and it’s remnants, buried within the earth, waiting to tell us their stories. At the age of 12 I got my hands on some cultural anthropology university textbooks…and

Good morning steemians! First of all thank-you to everyone who offered names for our family to pick from for our new calf. Before I announce her name and the winning submission, why is picking a name for

We all have our reasons for wanting a simpler life. For some, we see the illness of the consumer driven modern focus and we seek a slower life filled with quality not quantity. For others it’s the desire

Watching what's happening online, here, in real life...It can really feel like a bad movie. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances,

This past year was painfully lacking in dairy. We had tried artificially inseminating our Jersey cow with Mini Jersey semen that we brought up from the States. However, Jerseys are notoriously hard to

We are always trying to find new uses for things that would otherwise be discarded to the compost pile, the animals or disposed of. I am constantly chanting in my head, waste is a mentality. Naturally,

As I continue to prepare for the shifts both in our lifestyle (moving off grid) and in aligning my career with this off grid adventure, I have begun to shift my ranching and market gardening farm to growing

Two days ago we brought home a precious soul to join our family. She was an orphan calf from a local organic dairy, and our own sweet Rosie lost her calf and was heart broken. This little girl came to