Millennial homesteaders pursuing a compassionate & connected life on a plant based hobby farm
The perfect recipe for turning your homegrown tomatoes into tomato paste that you can preserve and use all winter long! With this tomato paste recipe, you can make ketchup, BBQ sauce, chili, stews, and yummy sauces with the delicious flavor of homemade tomatoes even while it's snowing outside. This tomato paste recipe does NOT call…
Continue reading ➞ Tomato Paste Canning Recipe using Homegrown Tomatoes
Dairy Free, Vegetarian, Vegan, Plant-based. Allergens: contains peanuts & wheat I'm a big fan of veggie burgers, but there are plenty of sub-par options out there. Recently the Impossible Burger (Impossible Whopper) and Beyond Meat burger have taken over the veggie burger scene, and for good reason! They're full of flavor, weirdly meat-like, and becoming…
Continue reading ➞ Better than the Impossible Burger | Farm to Table Beet Burgers
In the homesteading world, vegans and vegetarians are kind of like buried treasure. Their social media accounts are hard to find, but when you do come across them, they're never disappointing. These 8 accounts touch on a variety of different topics from gardening, to ethical animal husbandry, to permaculture, and farm animal rescue. What is…
Continue reading ➞ 8 Vegan or Vegetarian Homesteading Instagram Accounts to Follow
This post contains Amazon affiliate links, I receive a small amount of compensation if you choose to purchase from any Amazon links. I can't even count the number of times people ask us "where do you get your protein?" being that we are vegetarian and dairy-free. The answer? All kinds of things! Beans, peas, greens,…
Continue reading ➞ Protein in the Garden?! Plant Based Protein You Can Grow in Your Backyard
Plant-Based, Vegan, Gluten Free, Soy Free, Oil Free, Dairy Free https://youtu.be/AdkzvMt5Frc I was SO excited the other night when I threw together a super quick pasta sauce and it turned out more delicious, more creamy, and more like Alfredo than any plant-based sauce I've ever made. I was inspired by a dish at a local restaurant that we…
Continue reading ➞ Easy Vegan Cashew Alfredo Pasta with Microgreens
Hi friends! Today I want to share a quick tutorial on starting microgreens. Microgreens are a really easy way to grow indoors during the winter, and produce nutrient packed greens to put on salads, sandwiches, bowls, and pretty much everything! They are so delicious, really easy to grow, and can allow you to continue gardening,…
Today I want to address the concept of our plant-based homestead and answer some questions about this. As usual, you can watch the video below or read the post, the information is not all the same, but there is definitely some overlap. WHAT is a plant-based homestead? To start off, it is helpful to consider…
Continue reading ➞ Can you Homestead as a Vegetarian or Vegan? | Plant Based Homesteading
Hi Friends! Today I am going to share some questions and answers all about seed varieties, garden surprises, and my go-to seed companies for organic gardening. I posted a more detailed video yesterday all about this topic as well as an overview of my heirloom seed collection, but I know everyone learns differently, so you…
I often think back to when we first started our homesteading lifestyle, which was only two years ago! There are so many things we have learned along the way, many of them unexpected. Today I’m going to share with you a few things to consider before you jump into this lifestyle. You can read the…
Continue reading ➞ Consider These Five Things before Starting a Farm or Homestead
Hi Friends! I know it has been a long while since my last post, sometimes when there is just so much going on, it is hard to know what to share next. Today I'm going to share our experiences growing, harvesting, eating, and storing the food from our first real garden at the Sunshine Farm.…
Continue reading ➞ Our First Garden on the Farm | Successes, Failures, and Lessons Learned
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