Welcome to Simple Homestead Living
About Suzanne
For years, I’ve worked and built my homestead to be comfortable, efficient, and abundant. From gardening and preserving my own foods, to making soaps and cleansers, to raising chickens and goats, ensuring a clean water source, to self sufficiency while staying within the budget. Over time, I realized there were a few things here or there that made life easier on a simple homestead. So, I’ve brought a collection of my favorite things together to share with friends, in hopes that your homestead life will made simpler, easier and more comfortable too.
Homesteading life doesn’t have to be hard, and with the right tools and tips, we can all reach our homesteading goals together. Please enjoy the recipes, tips, tricks, hints and a little helping hand now and then, as you and wander through the website. I hope you find the perfect products to help make life simpler, more frugal, and more enjoyable!
~ Suzanne
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Time to Prune Elderberries!
If you planted elderberries in your back yard, you might be wondering how to best care for them to get the most fruit and blossom production. We’re coming into the best season for pruning them! Find out more as we take a look at caring for elderberries on the homestead. Elderberries are beautiful, with their…
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Is Your Mattress Making You Sick?
This article contains affiliate links. Night after night, we sleep on the same mattress. Your linens are probably washed regularly, but are we really getting our sleeping areas clean? The same would apply to sofas and couches. Are we cleaning these areas regularly? Deep cleaning can certainly make a difference in our health, with allergens…
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Large Zucchini Recipes
We can check the garden daily, but eventually, if we are lucky, we’ll find a monstor zucchini in the garden! Funny how that happens, those beautiful green babies are so delicious when they are small. But larger ones get firmer and seedier. So, let’s jump right in and see what we can do with them!…
