Category: homestead
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Delicious Homemade Fish Fry Breading Mix

Walleye. Northern Pike. Crappie. These are some of our favorite fish to catch in our area to have a fish fry with. While we love many different species of fish cooked in all kinds of ways, a big fish fry with fish we caught and cleaned is our favorite! Fishing is a big part of…
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Ice Fishing: A Favorite Northern Minnesota Winter Activity

There is nothing I love more than getting outside on a sunny winter day. Snowshoeing, skating, sledding, ice fishing – I just love enjoying the outdoors with snow! Ice fishing definitely tops the list of winter family activities on our homestead. Our whole family enjoys it, and we go often throughout the winter season (as…
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Raising Chickens in a Northern Climate

Spring is approaching – in theory – and many households are thinking about starting to raise chickens. Farm stores are starting to schedule their shipments of chick breeds and hatcheries around the country begin their ship dates very soon (or have already). Our homestead began our chicken tending journey in the spring of 2022, making us…
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New to Homesteading

“How did we get here?” This is a question I have often asked myself over the past couple of years, mostly out of gratefulness and awe that my husband and I were able to make a move out to a good piece of land and raise our family here. We have always lived in northern…
