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

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

Why Homesteaders Quit (+ How to Make Sure You Don’t)
We’ve talked to thousands of homesteaders over the years, and there’s a pattern you can almost set your watch by: the early excitement, the

From Pantry Chat to Everyday Homesteading
We have some big news to share with you! After nearly seven years and more than 250 episodes, we’ve wrapped up The Pantry Chat

Preserving a Way of Life with Rory Groves
I had the privilege of sitting down with my friend Rory Groves from The Grovestead to talk about his family’s journey from tech careers

The Beekeepers Apothecary (Honeybees + Plant Medicine)
Discover how to combine herbs with bee products like honey, propolis, and beeswax for powerful natural remedies. Beekeeper and herbalist Kaylee Richardson shares her

Mid-Summer on the Homestead
It’s the height of summer here on the homestead, and that means two things: the harvest is starting to roll in, and our to-do