Your guide to simple, intentional, and time-tested living, teaching lost kitchen skills to the modern homesteader.

A bowl of batter on a wood cutting board and a crock bowl.

Food From Scratch

Chopped cabbage packed inside of glass canning jars. The jars are sitting on top of a white tea towel and next to a stainless steel bowl.

Canning

Two wheels of cheese on a drying rack.

Cheese Making

Four slices of sourdough bread laying on a tea towel.

Sourdough

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Browse our collection of from-scratch recipes, featuring time-tested skills like sourdough, fresh milled baking, and home-canned goods curated to help you cook with confidence and purpose.

Sourdough strawberry muffin unwrapped after being baked.

breakfast

Whole chicken in a dutch oven after being baked.

dinner

Chocolate cupcake on a white plate with other cupcakes in the background.

dessert

A bowl of homemade mashed potatoes sitting on a hand towel.

sides

A loaf of whole wheat bread with sliced bread next to it.

breads

A wheel of pepper jack cheese on a drying rack.

raw dairy

Homemade sourdough starter in a glass Weck jar on the kitchen counter.

sourdough

Diced tomatoes and jalapeños in glass jars next to stainless steel bowls.

canning

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Canning Season

Glass jars filled with manwich sitting on a tea towel. Gold lids on the glass jars labeled with "manwich" on top.

Homemade Manwich

Roasted tomato soup in glass jars lined up on a white table.

Oven Roasted Tomato Soup

Diced tomatoes and jalapeños in glass jars next to stainless steel bowls.

Homemade Rotel

Diced jalapenos in glass canning jars sitting on a yellow and white striped hand towel.

Jalapenos (Not Pickled)

Pizza sauce in glass jars sitting on a white towel.

From Scratch Pizza Sauce

Up close of water being poured in a bowl of batter.

Welcome! I’m Sarah!

Here, I share time-tested kitchen skills like canning, cheese making, and baking with fresh-milled flour to help you create a simple, intentional life rooted in tradition. Whether you’re new to homesteading or just want to reconnect with lost arts, you’re in the right place.

Raw Dairy & Cheese Making

Clabber starter next to a glass jar inside of a measuring cup.

How to Make a Clabber Starter

Two wheels of cheese on a drying rack.

How to Make Raw Cheddar Cheese

A wheel of pepper jack cheese on a drying rack.

How to Make Raw Pepper Jack Cheese

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Learn about traditional homesteading skills you can use in your modern day kitchen.

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