The holiday season is the perfect time to celebrate the joy of home-cooked food! We’ve gathered some of our favorite recipe books that encourage self-sufficient, from-scratch cooking — whether you love fermenting, preserving, baking, or stocking your pantry with wholesome … Read More
Cooking dried beans is a simple and cost-effective way to incorporate nutritious legumes into your diet. Here’s a comprehensive guide to cooking dried beans: Benefits of Cooking Dried Beans Dried beans are versatile, economical, and offer a wide variety of … Read More
Looking for a simple recipe for goat meat? Our family loves all things satay, or sate, as it is often spelled, whether it’s chicken satay, tofu satay, or goat satay. In fact, we created this recipe by combining parts of … Read More
Have you ever made turkey bone broth? Like many Americans, after cutting all the meat off our Thanksgiving turkey, we used to throw the bones in the trash. It breaks my heart now to think of all the lost cups … Read More
It’s egg season! While most people would say it’s spring, those of us with chickens know it’s egg season. After a few months of few to no eggs — because hens don’t lay in the dark days of winter unless … Read More
When we butchered goats for the first time, we really had no idea what to do with the meat. After trying to simply substitute goat meat for beef in some recipes and not enjoying it, I decided to start looking … Read More
They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Although some people have had great success with intermittent fasting, which basically means skipping breakfast, it is important to have a good breakfast, if you have anything at all. … Read More
Turkey is probably the most underutilized meat in the U.S. Most people think of it as a the centerpiece for a holiday dinner, but it can be used for so many more dishes! Every year we raise turkeys so … Read More
If you are like most Americans, you are not crazy about dark turkey meat. In fact, you don’t like it at all, which is why Big Ag figured out how to grow turkeys with breasts so big that they can’t … Read More
Chèvre is that soft goat cheese that most people generically call “goat cheese.” It is a delicious snack or appetizer spread on crackers or bread, and it makes a scrumptious sandwich when paired with grilled mushrooms and peppers. You can … Read More
Thrifty Homesteader was created in 2012 after the publication of my second book, Ecothrifty. The name was coined by one of my followers because I said that I didn’t want anyone to think that they had to be rich to homestead or live a greener life....
