Growing sprouts at home is the easiest way to grow nutritious food right in your kitchen. No green thumb is needed, as well as no soil, no grow lights and no extra space. You can start today and become a gourmet sprout grower in less than a week. Why grow sprouts at home Sprouts' nutrition value ...
Homestead Kitchen – Before and After Reveal
It is very exciting to reveal our homestead kitchen before and after. It was a great project and we are very pleased with the outcome. As you know, we went with an IKEA kitchen, and you can read here our 7 reasons why to choose an Ikea kitchen. It was a DIY project, from planning the kitchen to ...
Start Homesteading
Homesteading is something we talk about a lot here at Northern Homestead, even though we are not a classic homestead. Nevertheless, we are here to encourage you to start homesteading right where you are at, and here are 5 reasons why: 1. Homesteading is not about where you live If homesteading ...
7 Reasons to choose an IKEA kitchen for your homestead
We like IKEA and shop there often. I like the saying: "Why pay more, if you can go to IKEA". So for us it was a no-brainer, we wanted an IKEA kitchen. But if you are still considering where to buy your homestead kitchen, here are 7 reasons to choose an IKEA kitchen for your homestead. IKEA started ...
Indoor Garden Update – Winter 2018 on Video
Welcome to Northern Homestead Indoor Garden Update - Winter 2018 on video. The outdoor garden is covered in snow and temperatures are well into freezing. But in our food production garage things are growing well. Enjoy the tour! If you have trouble to see the video, go here. Growing ...
Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce
Follow my blog with Bloglovin We have been enjoying the yummy taste of homemade oven roasted tomato sauce for a few years now. It all started when fellow blogger The Free Range Life posted the Roasted Tomato Sauce recipe that looked so yummy and sounded so easy. Since we had lots of homegrown ...
Homemade 5 Vegetables Soup
This 'Homemade 5 Vegetables Soup' is very yummy, easy to make, and can save you some money, too. After all, there are always some vegetables that have to go but do not really fit any recipe. Take them and make a yummy 'Homemade 5 Vegetables Soup' and you can feed a family or have lunches for 3 ...
Planning a Homestead Kitchen
The kitchen is the heart of a homestead. Here is where all the home grown produce becomes homegrown food. Here we make, preserve, and enjoy our meals. Planning a homestead kitchen is an exciting and important undertaking. Our older house had an older kitchen in it. In fact, it is most likely ...
Best Mashed Potatoes Ever
It’s quite a statement to suggest that these are the Best Mashed Potatoes Ever. If you read my post on How to Steam Vegetables Without a Steamer you know that vegetables, and potatoes too, do not need to be boiled covered in water. Potatoes taste much better just steamed in a pot with very little ...
Growing an indoor edible window garden in water
Growing an indoor edible window garden in water instead of soil opens a whole new world of indoor gardening. Growing plants in water is called hydroponics, here plant nutrients are distributed via water. The word "hydro" simply means water, hence hydroponics. The benefits of growing an indoor ...
