On the Homestead: Farm

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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This is all I have to show for it | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

All I had to show for it.

After the last dishes in the sink are scrubbed and tucked away for the night, at least at this time of year, I immediately scurry outside to the gardens. In…

Come tour my cottage gardens! | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

Come tour my spring cottage gardens!

It’s late spring here on the farm – and the cottage gardens are looking so wonderfully beautiful. Come tour my spring cottage gardens and enjoy the bird song, crunchy gravel,…

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New WORKSHOPS from The Elliott Homestead.

Perhaps this makes me sound a bit older than my 36 years, but the world is moving a bit too fast for me. While watering my herb garden last week,…

Fast Food on the Farm

Here’s the reality: when the flowers begin to bloom and there are tomato plants to get in the soil, I’m less inclined to spend a ton of time in the…

Preserving eggs.

We don’t often think about egg’s having a season, but they do – and this video is all about preserving eggs! When the days grow longer and warmer and all…

Finding Your Food.

We spent the last few days on the Washington coast, just a few short hours from our home. In the high desert climate where we farm, irrigation is required to…

Highs and lows of lambing on our small farm. | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

Major highs and lows of lambing.

It wasn’t an easy lambing season. Even on our small farm with just a handful of ewes, you have to face the issues that come – they’re inevitable with livestock….

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All the food left in our winter root cellar.

It’s not glamorous – all the food left in our winter root cellar. The cabbage leaves have long gone a bit grey and moldy. The leeks are now spotted and…

Maintaining a dry sourdough starter | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

Sourdough made easy: Keeping, maintaining, and converting to a dry-sourdough starter.

I keep a sourdough starter. A very healthy one. Right now, a small jar of my starter is living in the refrigerator where it sits, waiting for its moment in…

What 2 feet of snow means on the farm.

The homesteader doesn’t always get to choose their day. A few times each week (I’m rounding, here) the farm chooses our day for us. There’s part of this uncertainty and…

Small farm goals, dreams, mistakes, and layout | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

2022: Small farm dreams, goals, mistakes, layout, and more.

Like most of you, I look at New Years as an opportunity to reflect on what this last year has taught us here on our small farm and feel reenergized…

This toxic ingredient is in everything.

We produce a lot of beautiful food on our farm. From raw milk to red meat to rendered lard to herbed salts to organic vegetables to fresh fruit. It’s all…

On the Homestead: Farm

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