Welcome!

This website launched in mid-March, 2023, so it’s definitely a work in progress. Be sure to come back regularly—or use the subscribe feature in the sidebar—to keep up with this site’s growth.

This site is all about urban homesteading, which you can learn more about here.

You’ll mostly find recipes on this site, most geared toward food preservation, including water bath canning, pressure canning, fermenting, dehydrating, freezing, and cold storage. You can read more about these topics here.

Additionally, because I love to cook, over time you’ll find recipes for baking, making alcohol, bread, and more. You’ll eventually find menu plans for how to use these preserved foods to impress your guests, and posts about gardening and turning your property (however small, even if it’s an apartment balcony) into a garden oasis.

Latest Posts

How to Preserve Blueberries in a Sugar and Kombucha Brine

A while back I tried fermenting blueberries with a salt solution. While it worked and the blueberries were fermented and ...
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How to make a Sourdough Starter

I'd tried to get into baking over the last few years. We got a second-hand bread machine from my husband's ...
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How to Make an Irish Drop Shot

An Irish drop shot is a fun, though not quite so tasty, drink for an Irish themed night or a ...
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Pressure Canner Recipes

How to Pressure Can Potatoes

Every year my husband grows far too many potatoes. We give some away and we attempt to eat as many ...
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How to Make Chili in the Pressure Canner

I’m the literal worst at packing a lunch for work. It’s not unusual for me to show up at work ...
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Canning 101

I’m relatively new to canning—the process of putting food into jars and making them shelf-stable so they can sit in ...
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Bread Recipes

How to make a Sourdough Starter

I'd tried to get into baking over the last few years. We got a second-hand bread machine from my husband's ...
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How to Make Irish Potato Bread

I'm a bit of a food experimenter—when I stumble across a recipe I'm curious about, I make sure I try ...
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How to Make Jalapeño Cheddar Sourdough Bread (or with Other Hot Peppers)

A few months ago I got myself going with a sourdough starter. A sourdough starter is basically fermented flour, and ...
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Alcoholic Drinks

How to Make Grapefruit Soju

When I hang out with my friend group, we like to try to pair food or drinks to what we're ...
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How to Make Orange Soju

Soju is a Korean spirit that I liken to a lighter vodka—it has little to no taste and usually comes ...
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Gardening and Harvesting

How to Grow Your Own Wheat and Make Flour

My husband and I take an experimental approach to our gardening. If we get the slightest idea of something that ...
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General Blog Posts

Canning 101

I’m relatively new to canning—the process of putting food into jars and making them shelf-stable so they can sit in ...
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What Urban Homesteading Means to Me

In my self-education quest of learning how to preserve our massive garden harvest, I latched on to the homesteading subculture ...
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My Food Preservation Journey

Several years ago, my husband decided he wanted to try gardening as a way to get him away from the ...
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