I’m Kaitlyn, a wife, a mother, author and a homesteader. I have found my joy in living this homesteading life since 2012 when my husband and I moved to our first little farm. We started with raising chickens, ducks, rabbits, and even a potbelly pig. We planted our first gardens together and I learned through much trial and error. Our homestead has grown over the years and we are now growing and raising much of our own food. We have cows, chickens, ducks, sheep, and the occasional other random farm animals, along with 9 acres of gardens, orchards, and berry patches. We found ways to work with our cold Minnesota weather by building a greenhouse and preserving all kinds of food in our root cellar. With our growing family, I have found it more important than ever to really make our homestead a home that my kids will look back on and remember fondly. The days of helping mom milk the cow or pick vegetables for dinner straight out of the garden.
In 2020, I started sharing our ways of cooking, preserving, and growing our own food. I knew that I wanted a way to teach others that wanted this lifestyle themselves. I have always boldly walked my own path and giving others the encouragement I never had became a mission of mine. These are things that we have been doing over the last decade on our homestead.
I never realized that homesteading was such a lost art. People have become so disconnected from real food, fearful even. With our modern-day busy lives and the rise of convenience foods, we have lost many of the skills that our grandparents and great-grandparents had in the kitchen.
There is a growing movement of people wanting to rediscover these lost skills forgotten not too many generations ago. This is not going to be a cut-and-dry cookbook. Instead, I want to give you the knowledge to make these skills a habit in your own kitchen and give you the confidence to make it your own.
In 2020, I started sharing our ways of cooking, preserving, and growing our own food. I knew that I wanted a way to teach others that wanted this lifestyle themselves. I have always boldly walked my own path and giving others the encouragement I never had became a mission of mine. These are things that we have been doing over the last decade on our homestead.
I never realized that homesteading was such a lost art. People have become so disconnected from real food, fearful even. With our modern-day busy lives and the rise of convenience foods, we have lost many of the skills that our grandparents and great-grandparents had in the kitchen.
There is a growing movement of people wanting to rediscover these lost skills forgotten not too many generations ago. This is not going to be a cut-and-dry cookbook. Instead, I want to give you the knowledge to make these skills a habit in your own kitchen and give you the confidence to make it your own.