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Homestead Risk Assessment
What’s your risk score? Take this short quiz to help you determine how vulnerable you are when life happens. Once you know your score, you can take steps to mitigate your risks!
Cook from Scratch
Cook how Aunt Bee, Ma’ Ingalls and our grandmothers cooked with whole, natural ingredients for nourishing and delicious meals.
Grow Your Own Food
Cultivate your garden and reap a bounty of fresh, organic produce, sown and nurtured by your own hands.
raise farm animals
Explore how you can raise animals to help meet the needs of your family for dairy, eggs, and meat right in your backyard.
Start Your Homestead
Start relying more on yourself with old-fashioned knowledge and skills, creating a life that’s in harmony with nature.
Cook from Scratch
Cook with whole, natural ingredients and create meals that are both nourishing and delicious.
Raise Farm Animals
Raise animals to help meet the dairy, egg, and meat needs of your family.
Start Homesteading
Start living like a homesteader no matter where you live or what you make.
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Hi! I’m Rebekah, creator of the Rivers Family Farm blog.
I’m a city girl turned country mama that enjoys cooking food from scratch, picking ripe produce from the garden, preserving the bounty, and playing with my kids and farm animals. My husband and I did not grow up on a farm, so we’re learning as we go and sharing what we learn here at Rivers Family Farm so that you can avoid some of the many mistakes we have made.
We have a heart to teach and help people that are pursuing their dreams of growing more of the food that they eat. We all need to eat to live. The more skills you have to grow the food you and your family eats, the less reliant you’ll be on the grocery store, other producers, the economy, or your paycheck.
If you’re a beginner homesteader, check out 20 practical steps on how to start homesteading no matter how much money or land you have! If you want to learn about healthy eating and the history of our standard diet, check out the Weston A. Price Foundation.