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Before & Afters of a completely remodel, 100 year old house on the Wyoming prairie. Tons of rustic decor ideas!

Almost Pioneers: One Couple's Homesteading Adventure in the West: DIVspanIn the fall of 1913, Laura and Earle Smith, a young Iowa couple, made the gutsy—some might say foolhardy—decision to homestead in Wyoming. There, they built their first house, a claim shanty half dug out of the ground, hauled every drop of their water from a spring over a half-mile away, and fought off rattlesnakes and boredom on a daily basis. /spanbr /spanSoon, other families moved to nearby homesteads, and t...

Not everything in life needs to be HARD to be rewarding. Here's my thoughts on how I'm letting my garden be easy this year and how it will make gardening better and probably more successful.

HOMESTEADING might seem old-fashioned, but one mother has revealed how she integrates it into modern life. From humble beginnings to newfound teachings, podcast host Jill Winger gave a glimpse into her traditional lifestyle. Based in the southeast corner of Wyoming, Jill Winger “weaves the best of the past with the present” with her Prairie Homestead […]

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I’m going to show my ignorance here… But how exactly do you pronounce the word calzone? Is it cal-ZONE? Or cal-zonie? Or cal-zon-eh? As you can see we don’t have much culture out here on the Wyoming prairie… Well thankfully, I’m not doing a calzone video, so I don’t have to sound like an idiot […]

It’s done. Finished. Completed. Wrapped up. Buttoned up. Concluded. Published. And I can hardly believe it. This might just be the biggest project I have ever embarked on in my entire life. Yes, even bigger than building a half mile of fence or pulling those 1.2 million staples from the tumble-down pens on our property. […]

Hey. I’m Jill. I’ve never been good at following prescribed paths. I ask too many questions for that. And as young newlyweds, my husband Christian and I asked one question that changed our lives forever: “Why do we have to live like everyone else?” Our quest for the answer has led us down some wild […]

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A bushel-full of apple recipes! Everything from sweet to savory to beverages, and everything in between!

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The Prairie Homestead Cookbook: Simple Recipes for Heritage Cooking in Any Kitchen [Winger, Jill] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Prairie Homestead Cookbook: Simple Recipes for Heritage Cooking in Any Kitchen

I think my chickens might be spoiled… I don’t make sweaters for them or anything, but they do have a completely-remodeled chicken coop… And GMO-free, organic feed… And all the kitchen scraps they could ever want… And homemade essential oil coop spray… And herbs in their nesting boxes… I realize I just sounded like a crazy-chicken-lady, […]

This is my favorite way to prepare pork shoulder. It is a no-brainer, and it’s ideal for your summer BBQs and get-together.

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Barren… That was the first word that crossed my mind when I set out to work on my new kitchen garden this year. It’s right under my laundry room window, and is the perfect spot, considering it gets plenty of southern sunlight and is right next to our new porch. However, the soil leaves a […]

A couple weeks ago I found myself talking to someone who didn’t have the faintest idea what homesteading was. It’s been quite a while since I’ve been around anyone completely unexposed to this lifestyle, which I think is fairly remarkable, considering homesteading was still a fringe concept ten years ago when the notion of chickens […]

Buying their small ranch 9 miles outside of Chugwater gave Jill and Christian Winger room for their horses and their dreams — but blogging about it all unexpectedly turned Jill into a social media star.