Everyday Homesteading Podcast
Desperate to grow, cook, and preserve real food for your family in only 5-10 hours a week, but stuck as a new homesteader looking for practical, tried and true methods that work?
You wanted those pantry shelves filled yesterday, but the more you try, the more it seems a distant pipe dream. Online content is filled with impractical, untried homesteading advice, which wastes your precious time and money.
Everyday Homesteading steps in with practical, tested solutions, cutting through the chaos with clear plans tailored for busy beginners to reclaim your family’s health and independence through gardening, raising livestock, fresh seasonal cooking, herbal medicine and safe food preservation.
Hosted by veteran homesteaders, Josh and Carolyn Thomas, who grow 70% of their family’s food while running two businesses and homeschooling their large family, they have mastered practical homesteading for busy modern families. They have taught hundreds of thousands of new homesteaders to thrive with real-life homesteading through their online platforms Homesteading Family and School of Traditional Skills.
Tune in weekly to learn how to grow, cook, and preserve your family’s food, ditch health-destroying toxins, and save money monthly on groceries, all while building strong relationships and a sustainable legacy for your kids. Hit play now!
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The Latest Episodes

How to Create a Household Rhythm That Supports Your Family and Your Homestead
If you’ve ever woken up already feeling behind, already tired, already overwhelmed before the day has even begun, you’re not alone. I hear this

Nurturing a "People First" Homestead
Let’s talk about something that I think every single one of us feels on the homestead, that constant tension between all the work that

Finding Freedom Through Gridlessness
Every now and then, I sit down with someone whose story makes you rethink what freedom really looks like. Join me with Jeff from

What We’d Tell Our Younger Homesteading Selves (After 20+ Years)
When Josh and I first started homesteading over twenty years ago, we didn’t even know that’s what it was called. We were just a

Looking Back on Our Year of Rest
Last year, we made a simple but intentional decision: we wanted to slow down. We weren't quitting homesteading, we weren't going to stop caring

Finding Rest in the Quiet Times
If there is one thing almost every homesteader has joked about, it is this mythical idea that “this winter, we’ll finally rest.” Josh and

Can Anyone Keep a Dairy Cow?
For most of human history, families have depended on grazing animals to feed themselves. The sun hits the grass, the grass feeds the cow,

Mistakes We Made This Year… and What We Learned From Them
If there's one thing we have learned over the years of growing food, raising livestock, homeschooling a big family, and trying to run an

Natural Cheesemaking: Using Clabber, Kefir, and Raw Milk Cultures for Homemade Cheese
Learn how to make natural cheese using traditional raw milk cultures like clabber, kefir, and backsplash whey. Join me with Robyn Jackson from Cheese

Cultivating Contentment on the Homestead
There are seasons when the work feels good and everything seems to fall into place. But there are also seasons when things feel upside

How to Rehydrate Dehydrated Food
Learn how to rehydrate dehydrated food the right way so your family actually loves eating it. Practical tips, blanching chart, rehydration ratios, and more!

How to Grow a Survival Garden
Learn how to grow a survival garden to sustain you and your family through hard times. Don't get caught off guard, learn these tips