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    Homesteading Skills for Everyday Living

    Bring homesteading skills into everyday living with practical tips for gardening, raising chickens, preserving food, and making useful things for your home. Learn how to prune raspberries, care for chickens through the winter, or make your own beeswax wraps.

    These projects and tutorials come from our life growing food, raising animals, and making use of what we harvest. Whether you have a backyard garden or a small farm, you’ll find ideas to try at home.

    • Morel mushrooms on a dehydrator rack.
      Drying Morel Mushrooms
    • Canning jars filled with chili with beans.
      How to Can Chili
    • A pressure canner on a stovetop.
      How to Use a Pressure Canner
    • Canning jars filled with chicken stock.
      Canning Chicken Stock
    • Small canning jars filled with chunks of fish.
      Canning Fish
    • A bowl of green relish in front of several canning jars.
      Green Tomato Relish
    • Canning jars filled with tomato sauce.
      Homemade Tomato Sauce
    • Slices of homemade pastrami on butcher paper.
      Venison Pastrami
    • A ziplock bag filled with frozen peach slices.
      Freezing Peaches
    • Glass jars filled with sliced peaches.
      How to Can Peaches: Easy Step-by-Step Guide
    • A canning jar filled with smoked fish.
      Canning Smoked Fish
    • A large set of pruners clipping a branch.
      How to Prune Apple Trees
    • Dried pears on a board with a glass jar filled with pear chips behind them.
      Dried Pears
    • A glass jar filled with homemade rhubarb jam.
      Rhubarb Jam
    • A glass crock filled with brown apple butter.
      Apple Butter
    • A jar of home canned tomatoes.
      How to Can Tomatoes Safely (Water Bath)
    • Homemade cloth food wraps in a stack and wrapped with a piece of string.
      Beeswax Wraps
    • A pile of beeswax sitting on a board.
      Rendering Beeswax
    • An assortment of green chili peppers and one red jalapeno.
      Roasting and Freezing Chili Peppers
    • Frozen chopped rhubarb in a white bowl.
      Freezing Rhubarb
    • A canning jar filled with freshly spun honey.
      Harvesting Honey
    • Making your own bacon is so rewarding. Steps on curing and smoking bacon.
      Homemade Bacon
    • A pair of boots on green grass.
      From Our Little Farm
    • Free Range Eggs vs Store Bought Eggs
    • How to prune raspberries for a great crop next season.
      How to Prune Raspberries
    • Scenery of a pasture with mountains.
      Apple Cider Making Time
    • Elderberry Vodka. Vodka flavored with wild Elderberry.
      Elderberry Vodka
    • Checking a bee hive.
      Honey Bees - Checking the Hive
    • Different colored wild morel mushrooms all piled together.
      Picking Wild Morels
    • A wooden map on a stand.
      Memorial Day Tribute
    • Green tomato plants in a seedling tray.
      Planting Tomato Seedlings
    • A young boy dress with a bee keepers hat and gloves holding a small box with the queen bee.
      Honey Bees Starting a New Hive
    • Signs of Spring
    • A tote bag with a chicken on the front of the bag and red handles at the top.
      Chicken Feed Tote Bags
    • Chickens outside near a patch of snow.
      Raising Chickens Through the Winter
    • Glass jars filled with bright red plum juice.
      How to Juice Using a Steam Juicer
    • A blue bowl filled with raspberries.
      How to Freeze Raspberries
    • A spoonful of lard on top of a glass jar.
      How to Render Pork Fat into Lard
    • A large smoker and grill with the lid opened.
      Homemade Smoker and Grill
    • Baby pigs drinking water from a hose.
      Little Piggies

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    I'm Kathy, the recipe developer and photographer behind Beyond the Chicken Coop. I'm a lifelong home cook and baker, sharing homemade recipes made with everyday ingredients we grow, raise, forage, and preserve.

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