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Sled Dog Slow Goals For 2020

Katie — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 19:00:25 +0000

As always, we have big goals and bigger dreams for our lives in Alaska. Life off grid is not an easy feat and every year what we want and need seems to change. Looking at how far we come and how far we have yet to go can overwhelm at times, and writing these yearly […]

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Reevaluating Homestead Wants And Needs

Katie — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:56:39 +0000

Sometimes, in order to be happy, we need to take a step back and look at the big picture. Sometimes that leads us to reevaluating. For anyone who read our goals for 2018, its obvious we did that! Our process was a little jumbled because of our busy lives. But I just want to point […]

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What I Wish I Knew Before Butchering Pigs

Katie — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 06:09:05 +0000

Warning: I’m trying to keep this blog as accurate to our lives as possible. That means posting sad things and mistakes we make. This is not a pigs going easily to the farm in the sky post. This is a hard lesson learned butchering pigs for the first time post. I learned something the other […]

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Homestead Goals For 2018

Katie — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 07:13:15 +0000

Wow, rereading our goals for this year sooooo much has changed in what we wanted to do for 2017, vs our goals for 2018. We accomplished a few of our goals, but have also figured out a few that don’t actually work for us. The longer we spend living this way the more we learn. […]

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Building On A Budget – The Alaskan Way

Katie — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 04:27:04 +0000

As anyone who has read my previous post about our finances knows, we are on a serious budget out here. But just because we don’t have money doesn’t mean work on the homestead stops! With winter fast approaching, we knew we couldn’t let our water reservoir freeze. Last year we hauled all our water in […]

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Winter Prep On An Alaskan Homestead

Katie — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 07:30:45 +0000

Winter is nearly here in our little slice of Alaska. Trees are barren and we’ve already had our first frost. Seeing as winter is our longest and harshest season, we use the rest of the year to prepare for it. So what does preparing for winter on an Alaskan homestead entail? Firstly, we heat with […]

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The Good, The Bad, The Gross – Outhouse Care

Katie — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 03:18:05 +0000

Before we decided to go crazy, drop our entire lives, and move to the Alaskan bush, I had rarely used an outhouse. I’d used park maintained porta potties, mostly. And maybe a real, honest to goodness outhouse in an orchard or on a camping trip a few times. But I’d never needed to even think […]

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Rookie Mistakes We Made As Beginning Homesteaders

Katie — Thu, 18 May 2017 19:00:03 +0000

I’ll be the first to admit that when we first started our homesteading journey, we made a lot of rookie mistakes. We spent too much on things we didn’t need. Then we turned around and didn’t buy things we really should have. We skipped around when adding animals, buildings, and tools. That is, until we […]

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Three Surprising Places To Find Cheap Homestead Goods

Katie — Sun, 14 May 2017 22:14:42 +0000

Homesteading is not cheap. From animal feed to fencing (Amazon) to the animals themselves, there are quite a few things a beginning homestead will need. When we first started out we made the mistake of purchasing everything from a big box store. We spend thousands of dollars before we realized we could buy things way […]

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