Hip Chick Digs

Modern homesteaders are often avid home-cooks, and I am no exception. In case you are too, I wanted to make sure you all knew about the podcast I’ve launched called Cookbook Club with my friend...

https://www.hipchickdigs.com/2021/09/cookbook-club-podcast/

Incorporating a rain garden into our homestead allows us to weave natural processes into our backyard. We can still grow lots of food, keep chickens and bees – all the fun homestead-y stuff –...

https://www.hipchickdigs.com/2021/02/backyard-rain-garden/

This is the most well-thought through vegetable garden I’ve ever created. Take a look at the plan I created, get tips to make your own, and get a jump on the season while we’re all cooped up ...

https://www.hipchickdigs.com/2020/03/2020-vegetable-garden-plan/

You can easily substitute fresh pumpkin for canned pumpkin, but a couple extra steps are needed to ensure the final product is perfect. Follow these steps to ensure you end up with a perfectly ro...

https://www.hipchickdigs.com/2019/11/perfect-pumpkin-puree/

This is what homesteading with children looks like. Fox, now a toddler, picked these precious San Marzano tomatoes, which he’s been doing periodically all summer. And, yes, it drives me I.N.S.A...

https://www.hipchickdigs.com/2019/08/homesteading-with-kids/

Can you believe we’ve been digging our roots into this homestead for five years already? I’m returning for intermittent blogging after taking a couple years off. And I wanted to let you all i...

https://www.hipchickdigs.com/2019/07/homestead-update-year-five/

Here we are on the winter solstice, nearly three months after welcoming our sweet baby Fox. I hope you spend this darkest day of the year somewhere warm surrounded with love, with bright days ahe...

https://www.hipchickdigs.com/2017/12/welcome-baby-fox/

It turns out there was one more seat at our family table. We get to welcome a baby boy into the world in early October, just as summer is fading into fall. Although I am not blogging regularly an...

https://www.hipchickdigs.com/2017/04/one-more-seat/

I was recently presented with a Community Service Award from the Oregon Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architecture (actually it was months ago, but better late than never!). This a...

https://www.hipchickdigs.com/2016/11/asla-award-winner/

I spend a good chunk of the fall foraging for wild mushrooms, specifically chanterelles, around the forests of the Pacific Northwest. As I’ve gotten better, my harvests have gotten bigger and ...

https://www.hipchickdigs.com/2016/11/roasting-chanterelle-mushrooms/