I am an Alaskan woman, who homesteads. I love to fish, pick berries, hunt for meat, sews, makes self-sufficient cloth products. I use herbal alternatives in place of pharmaceuticals and make some medicines. I also have a garden in the summer. In the winter I bake and cook, can/jar jellies from the summers berries, sew, and crochet. I also am very handy when it comes to fixing things, and using what we have to built what we need.
I am married, and have been for 17 years. I am a mother as well, and I homeschool my children. We are an ex-military family originally from Alaska. We served 12 years in the military.
On our homestead we have ducks, chickens, goats, turkeys and bunnies.
Here in our part of Alaska tempetures range for 80°F in the summer to -35°F in the winter.
We heat with wood we haul and cut our selfs, we also use coal.
We start growing our food in the Alaskan spring, which is May, and grow to late August.
We fish yearly for trout and salmon in the summer. We hunt for moose and sometime caribou in the fall. Berry season is also in the fall, wild cranberries, and blueberries. Some of which we hike miles to get.
We are also on the salvage call list for moose which is year round . Moose are the size of a horse and we have salvaged a few already. One broke its leg in some trees, the other got clipped by a car and was called in. Not all are as great as the first two. We did get one what was hit by a semi, we where able to salvage a quarter off of the calf/baby moose.
We try to fix things before we toss them, or repurpose them if possible.
I hope you enjoy my fails and learn from mine, as well as when I figure stuff out and we succeed and learn together.
Hello All! 🙋♀️
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