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 Make Compost the Easy Way - Composting 101
Composting seems to be a mystery to a lot of people. In this post, we are going to show you a simple system for

Prepping Your Pantry for Preserving Season
Spring is the best time of year to take inventory of your pantry, get it cleaned out, and prepare it for the new harvest

Homesteading Family's 2020 Year in Review
Josh and Carolyn review 2020 at Riverbend to discuss successes, failures, and accomplishments while hinting at what might be coming up in 2021.

Josh and Carolyn Answer Your Questions
Josh and Carolyn answer some questions on everything from pressure canning beef stew, storing eggnog, selecting the right wood cookstove, and so much more!

How to Stock Your Barn for Winter
Josh provides strategies to stock your barn for winter. Efficient, money-saving management, making your homestead easier and more enjoyable.

Where To Find Canning Supplies When There's a Shortage
With the national shortage of canning supplies, it's become extremely difficult to find jars, lids and even pressure canners. So what do we do

Prepping Your Pantry for Winter
Josh and Carolyn share three areas you need to focus on, as well as how to maximize your storage space when prepping your pantry

Getting Prepared for Winter on the Homestead
In this episode Josh and Carolyn talk through the 7 basic areas you need to focus on in order to get prepared for winter

How to Pivot When Things Go Wrong on the Homestead
Josh and Carolyn talk about a recent incident on their homestead and how to plan for when things go wrong on the homestead.

Positivity and Preparedness in Uncertain Times
COVID-19, flu season, civil unrest, education disruption, supply and demand issues. Josh & Carolyn share how to confidently navigate this season.

7 Things You Must Do On Your New Homestead
Just bought property? Josh & Carolyn share the 7 things you must do on your new homestead property to save time, money and reduce stress.

8 Things You Need to Know When Buying Homestead Property
Carolyn and Josh walk through the 8 essential things you need to look for when buying a homestead property. Deal-breakers and contingencies you need know.