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Homestead Favorites for Real Life
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items No perfect aesthetic, just real-life homesteading. These are my favorite tools and supplies that actually help day-to-day.
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Recipes I actually make
DIY on the Stead: Tools + Hardware I Actually Use
Kitchen tools I actually use
Chickens: Daily Care + Coop Must-Haves
Ducks: Mess Management + all their FAVS 🦆
Recipes I actually make
Real-life, easy recipes that are filling and worth repeating. A mix of dinners, comfort food, and favorites we genuinely make in our kitchen.
This is my big-batch, feed-a-crowd chili that never fails. Easy, filling, and tastes even better the next day. Perfect for cold nights, game days, or when you need dinner to handle itself while you do literally anything else. (Recipe is in the photo!...
Big Batch Chili 🌶️
This spicy chorizo pasta is one of my “easy but tastes like I tried” dinners. Creamy, a little spicy, super filling, and comes together fast. Perfect for weeknights when you want comfort food with some attitude. (Full recipe is in the photo!)
Spicy Chorizo Pasta
These are my “hide them from the family” cookies. Soft centers, crisp edges, melty chocolate, and that deep espresso flavor that makes them taste fancy without being hard. Perfect with coffee (obviously) and they’re even better the next day. Full rec...
Espresso chocolate chip cookies
This is a classic for a reason — and it’s genuinely my all-time favorite cookie. Soft, chewy, peanut-buttery, and the warm Hershey’s kiss on top is perfection. I make these every year (and randomly throughout the year when I need a win). Full recipe ...
Peanut Butter Blossoms
DIY on the Stead: Tools + Hardware I Actually Use
My most-used DIY tools, fasteners, and “this saved the project” items for building, fixing, and rigging things.
Perfect for beginners—easy instructions and it takes the stress out of starting sourdough.
Classic Fresh Sourdough Starter
Not a cute purchase but an elite one. Makes firewood season way easier.
Husqvarna 450 Rancher 20 in. 50.2cc Gas Chainsaw, 970515620 at Tractor Supply Co
Kitchen tools I actually use
My everyday kitchen tools for real-life cooking and cozy homestead meals. Reliable favorites I reach for constantly — the kind of stuff that makes the kitchen feel easier and a little more magical.
If your utensil drawer is a junk-drawer nightmare… this fixes it. Cute wooden set, all the basics, and the holder makes my kitchen look like I have my life together (I don’t, but the counter does).
9-Piece Natural Teak Wooden Kitchen Utensil Set
This is one of those “why didn’t I buy this sooner” kitchen tools. It chops and slices SO fast (especially onions) and the container catches everything so you’re not making a mess all over the counter. I use it when I want dinner prepped quick withou...
Mueller Pro Chopper 10-in-1 Veggie Slicer
If you don’t want a complicated espresso setup, this is a great everyday coffee maker. Affordable, straightforward, makes a full pot, and it’s held up insanely well for us. Perfect for busy mornings when you just need coffee now.
Gourmia 12 Cup One-Touch Coffee Maker Black
Chickens: Daily Care + Coop Must-Haves
My favorite chicken gear that makes feeding, watering, and coop life easier (and less gross).
Works for duckies too!
Chicken Brooder Box with Timer Heater & Feeder
DIY poultry waterer that makes me feel like I have my life together. Gravity-fed, less spilling, and I’m not refilling water 900 times a day.
Poultry Pro PVC Gravity Waterer 3 Ports Kit
Ducks: Mess Management + all their FAVS 🦆
Duck essentials that help with the splash zone, the mud, and keeping water time fun but manageable.
This is our go-to duck feed from Tractor Supply—easy, reliable, and our ducks love it.
DuMOR Pelleted Duck Feed, 50 lb. Bag at Tractor Supply Co