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Browse the most popular nourishing recipes and homestead tips and techniques to help you on your journey to living a more self-sufficient and healthy life.

A block of orange-yellow homemade butter in a white ceramic butter dish with black letters that say "BUTTER" with a picture of a cow and barn on the side.
Homemade Butter
A block of homemade cream cheese sitting on a white flour sack towel.
Homemade Cream Cheese
Homemade biscuits piled high on a white plate.
Easy Biscuits
Rendered chicken fat schmaltz in a glass jar with a red and white lid.
Render Chicken Fat
A raw, juicy steak on a wooden cutting board with salt and herbs on top.
How Many Steaks in a cow
A gallon of white vinegar and a gallon of apple cider vinegar sitting on the ground next to a blueberry shrub.
Vinegar to Acidify Soil
Three cows in a pasture with rolling hills. A calf is nursing on his mother. A bull is standing next to them.
Raise Livestock for Cheap
A man milking a dairy cow and the milk streams are going into a stainless steel milk bucket.
How to Milk a Cow
Soup pot and spoon graphic to cook from scratch at home from Rivers Family Farm.

Cook from Scratch

Cook how Aunt Bee, Ma’ Ingalls and our grandmothers cooked with whole, natural ingredients for nourishing and delicious meals.

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Leafy green graphic to grow your own food at home from Rivers Family Farm.

Grow Your Own Food

Cultivate your garden and reap a bounty of fresh, organic produce, sown and nurtured by your own hands.

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Hen graphic to raise farm animals at home by Rivers Family Farm.

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.

farm animal posts
Farmhouse and wind mill graphic to start homesteading at home by Rivers Family Farm.

Start Your Homestead

Start relying more on yourself with old-fashioned knowledge and skills, creating a life that’s in harmony with nature.

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Rivers Family Farm blog author Rebekah Rivers.
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.

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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.