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

Raising Goats 101: For Dairy
If you're looking to get into dairy animals, raising goats is the best way to get started. But to ensure you're set up properly

Health Benefits of Going Off-Grid
There are many health benefits that come with taking your homestead and lifestyle off-grid. Come hear them all from Stacy from Off-Grid with Doug

How to Grow a Year's Worth of Food
Growing a year's worth of food doesn't have to be intimidating. In fact, Melissa K Norris from Pioneering Today is sharing how to successfully

Pantry Chat Q & A
Today we're answering your questions! Everything including gardening, homesteading, preserving foods, household management and so much more.

How to Get Started Homesteading
Josh and Carolyn discuss starting a homestead and share 16 essential skills to master now before you can take it to the next level.

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