Hip Chick Digs

Renee Wilkinson is a sixth generation Oregon homesteader with a fascination for watching things grow and getting her hands dirty. Her homestead is a tenth of an acre plot in Portland, Oregon, wh...

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Renee Wilkinson holds a masters degree in landscape architecture and has designed outdoor spaces for over a decade. Her experience includes edible gardens, permaculture food forests, nature-base...

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In 2014, we bid a fond farewell to our original homestead and moved into the Sellwood neighborhood of SE Portland for another fixer-upper homestead project. Our new digs had different colored...

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Our very first homestead was a 700 square foot house in the Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood of southeast Portland, Oregon. The 1927 house was painted the dullest light-grey you can imagine and...

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Check out before-and-after photos, garden plans and lots of pretty photos of our homesteads. See how our current home is in the process of transforming into a productive homestead after just two...

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There are lots of critters that roam our modern homestead, wild and domesticated. This page can help you navigate my many posts over the years about the clucking, quacking and buzzing going on in...

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In 2011, Renee Wilkinson released her first book Modern Homestead: Grow, Raise, Create. Since then she has traveled across North America for book readings, homesteading workshops and lectures...

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Adventures of an urban homesteader growing greens, preserving the harvest and tending a backyard barnyard

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  Having a productive homestead doesn’t mean you need to sacrifice beauty! These are various posts I have written over the years about helpful plants, beautiful garden spaces, outdoor proj...

https://www.hipchickdigs.com/garden-design/

This page is dedicated to the many recipes I have written about over the last several years. You can click here to look through all of my recipes, as this list may not include my most recent one...

https://www.hipchickdigs.com/harvest-recipes/

Here are all 718 of my posts! You should be able to click on any given month and see an expandable list of previous posts. Feel free to use the sidebar on the right to click on any given category...

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