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In the heart of the city, a modern homestead is growing food, raising livestock, and creating beauty.
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Hello homesteader! I’m Renee Wilkinson and this is where I’ve chronicled my adventures in homesteading since 2007. Here you will find 1,000+posts on modern homestead projects, edible landscape design and the occasional life update.

I recently finished putting together a vegetable planting calendar resource that I’m excited…
Modern homesteaders are often avid home-cooks, and I am no exception. In case you are too, I wanted…
Incorporating a rain garden into our homestead allows us to weave natural processes into our…
This is the most well-thought through vegetable garden I’ve ever created. Take a look at the…
You can easily substitute fresh pumpkin for canned pumpkin, but a couple extra steps are needed to…
This is what homesteading with children looks like. Fox, now a toddler, picked these precious San…
“Eating is an agricultural act”
~Wendell Berry



