There are countless books out there about how to garden, decorate, can, cook, and craft. How to guides galore, but nothing to document and do it your own way. What recipe have you tried recently and did it work? What tweaks did you make to your Spring garden last year that you hope to remember for next year? How well did your flock produce and what factors contributed?

Your children may watch you sit at the table planting seeds you hope to cultivate into your new harvest. They may stand beside you as you knead the sour dough and watch in anticipation for it to ready for baking. Sometimes they may jump in and chase a chicken or collect the eggs. But how much of it will they remember? Will they know the hard work that went into planning, or the labor that was required to bring new life from the earth?

The Suburban Homestead is a place for the average neighborhood dweller to leave a legacy for themseleves or the next generation to remember that you can turn an average home into a homestead. Page after page categorized by activity, left with prompted blanks for you to document your own story.

How will you live?

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