On the Homestead

It’s not always glamorous or clean, but at least life on the farm is entertaining, beautiful, and oh-so-delicious. Follow along with recipes, dreams and confessions, and garden growing here.

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Fermented Salsa

In my (almost) three years of running The Elliott Homestead Cooking Community, this fermented salsa recipe has become one of the most popular and most requested. It’s the only way…

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Here’s What To Do With A Gigantic Lavender Harvest!

I was blessed to pull a huge lavender harvest from our lavender bushes this year. Lavender tends to be a short lived perennial so my five year old bushes are…

Here’s how to perfectly sear shrimp.

I learned years ago how to perfectly sear shrimp – there’s a big difference between “blackened” shrimp and “boiled” shrimp. This, my friends, is the right way to do shrimp…

Homemade Flavored Oils.

Oh my goodness – homemade flavored oils! YES PLEASE! Today in the kitchen we’re making hot chili oil, garlic oil, and rosemary oil but the options are limitless!

The making of a garden pond.

On this week’s YouTube video I’m sharing our garden pond – over a year in the making! While there are still a few pieces to put into place, and the…

Beer Battered Fried Garden Sage | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

Beer-Battered Fried Sage

On this week’s YouTube video, we’re heading into the garden (go figure) and enjoying the herb bounty (go figure) and making something delicious to eat (go figure). I guess I’m…

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A romantic stroll through the cottage gardens (with plant names!)

Come take a romantic stroll with the cottage gardens with me… and thanks to Stuart for spending many hours putting in the plant labels so that everyone can know what…

Managing farm animals in the summer.

Managing farm animals in the summer: it ain’t all beautiful flowers and joyful pottage gardens on the farm. Sometimes, it’s tough animal work and making-do.

Rum-Soaked Strawberry Shortcake

This recipe first appeared in The Elliott Homestead Cooking Community. Each month, I send 5 whole-food inspired recipes to CC members and guide them through with an instructional cooking video….

Pros & Cons of No-Dig Gardening | The Elliott Homestead

Pros and Cons of No-Dig Gardening

As the saying goes “If I had it to do over…”, well, here’s what I would’ve done different! Today we’re making a new compost area, finally planting the Yukon Gold…

Keeping the gardens beautiful.

Here’s the work we put in to keep the gardens beautiful! To order some beautiful bare roots or bulbs from Brecks, visit: https://bit.ly/3nyYJjP and use the coupon code ELLIOTT30 for…

Here’s what fixes my bad attitude.

The other day, I had a bad attitude. Really bad in fact. So bad that my husband pleaded with me. “What do you need?” he asked. Here’s what I came…

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