Welcome to our real-life Fairytale homestead! No filters, just woodsmoke, wildflowers, and zero grid. This is your growing guide to slow living—I’ll update with new routines, recipes, how to’s and dreams as the seasons change. Save & bookmark! 
Laundry Day
Hand-washing in spinners, tub tubs, and our fabulous Staber washing machine! Greywater feeds the flower garden. Line drying makes everything crisp and clean.
Full blog post coming soon—
*Pro tip: We reuse every drop 3x (or at least we aim to)
See my Laundry video series on YouTube here
Greywater & Using Water More Than Once
How we filter laundry rinse through fruit trees → chicken coop → garden beds. Zero waste for our high desert land. How you can use water more than once even in an apartment
Woodstove Cooking
From pancakes in the cast-iron to pear vinegar on the back burner.
Always a dry rack going near the stove in cool weather for herbs, fruit and laundry.
Recipes + daily routines dropping often!
Baking
There’s nothing quite like the smell of bread made from flour I milled myself that morning. Most of my loaves start with wheat berries or rye berries that I sprout, dry, and grind fresh. Sprouting unlocks flavor and nutrition, and the taste is deeper, slightly nutty, and honestly alive in a way store flour can’t touch. I’m always testing new ratios, hydration levels, and sprout percentages, so the recipes are still evolving, but every loaf is baked in my little kitchen oven with zero additives.
If you’re just starting out with fresh milling, I can’t recommend the Champion Juicer enough—it’s my workhorse that’s been grinding grains and juicing produce since I was in my early 20’s (in my 5o’s now, and it still hums like day one after dropping an astronomical $400 on the juicer and another $100+ for the grain attachment). They’re still making them today (new ones run about $300–$400 for the juicer and $150–$200 for the attachment), but honestly, snag a used one on eBay or Facebook Marketplace for $100–$200 total if you can find a clean one in good shape—they last forever with basic care. More recipes and mill notes coming soon!
Food Storage Without Refrigeration
Root cellaring potatoes, dehydrating apples, fermenting everything.
- Pomegranate Vinegar
- Confit garlic in olive oil (stored in the cool pantry for months)
- Lacto-fermented carrots & onions in crocks
- Dehydrating apples/herbs on the wood-stove rack
- smoked salt + herb finishing salt blends
- The “root cellar” corner of the barn that stays 50–55 °F all winter
Our pantry tour coming in December!
Coming Soon (Subscribe for Updates!)
– Spring Gardening Rituals
– Chicken Coop Upgrade & Egg Harvest
– Seed Saving
– Foraging Walks
– Natural Dyeing with Garden Plants
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