Finding Joy in Homemaking & A Home-Centered Life
Finding joy in something that can be mundane is a true character trait that's to be highly valued. I'm excited to share our tips
You can learn the traditional skills to help your family become more healthy, free and secure.
We’re Carolyn and Josh Thomas! We live on 40 acres in Idaho with our 11 children where we grow, preserve, and prepare most of our own food right in our own backyard.
As young parents with a quickly growing family and a desire to feed them healthy, whole foods (even on a tight budget) we knew very quickly that we were going to have to figure out how to grow and prepare it ourselves… good food was just too expensive!
But we didn’t have anyone around us that we could ask about how to make this homesteading thing work. We felt completely alone and scrambling for answers while dealing with the demands of life.
After years of studying, trial and error and learning from anyone who knew more than us, we started figuring out how to make a productive, old fashioned life in the midst of a modern world. We were raising and growing most of our family’s food and medicine, and enjoying the results of eating healthy food, working together as a family, and being more connected to our land.
We didn’t want others to have to go through the same struggles we experienced, so we created Homesteading Family.
As the years have passed we have had an opportunity to speak into the lives of more and more families… And while we are so blessed to get to help others, we also know that this is just the beginning.
Now it is time to take the next step in your journey.
The Homestead Kitchen Membership will help you transform your home from a consumer based home into a productive and healthy home, through thoughtful instruction and well-designed content.
We hope you join us and can’t wait to see how your homestead grows.
A digital magazine filled with tips, recipes, and stories to help you make the most of seasonal produce and your grocery budget. New, delicious recipes every month will help you fill your pantry, freezer and table while learning traditional cooking skills and preservation techniques.
Finding joy in something that can be mundane is a true character trait that's to be highly valued. I'm excited to share our tips
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Learn how to make the most out of simple, seasonal produce in your own kitchen with the In the Homestead Kitchen digital magazine. With monthly inspiration on growing, cooking and preserving, you’ll be filling your table and your pantry with delicious, new, homestead goodness every month.
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