Starry Skies Homestead

Starry Skies Homestead Just a homesteading wife, looking to be more self sustainable and to create wholesome products for my family and for yours.

We are officially back into our market season after a wonderful break soaking in our new little one. If you are local t...
05/31/2025

We are officially back into our market season after a wonderful break soaking in our new little one. If you are local to the Bitterroot Valley, Montana, check us out at the . We will be here most Saturdays this season from 9 to 12:30!

If you are further from us, don't worry, we have a website now! Check it out in our profile!

10/10/2024

Hi there! I wanted to make a post letting anyone trying to reach me know that I will be taking a break from social media for a while. I'm not sure when I will log back in, and I will not be consistently checking my messages here. If you need to contact me for questions or orders please feel free to email me at [email protected]. I will be checking that email regularly. Thanks, Megan!

Rhubarb is one of my favorite garden harvests. It's a memory I have of pretty much every spring. The fact that it's on...
05/31/2024

Rhubarb is one of my favorite garden harvests. It's a memory I have of pretty much every spring. The fact that it's one of the first crops to harvest after the winter months makes it even more special.

I love to use it to infuse in drinks or make rhubarb lemonade, to bake it into yummy treats, and to store some in the freezer to use in the winter when I want a taste of summer.

Berries and Blossoms...Oh, those springtime vibes.
05/27/2024

Berries and Blossoms...Oh, those springtime vibes.

We have been loving our freezer drier so far! We haven't done too many batches because our summer has had so many projec...
07/19/2023

We have been loving our freezer drier so far! We haven't done too many batches because our summer has had so many projects to balance, but the batches we have done have been amazing.

So far, we have freeze dried kiwi, strawberries, and raw eggs.

Let me tell you, freeze dried kiwi is like eating candy. It's so good! We will definitely be doing more here soon!

We also saved some of the peaches from canning so that we could try our hands at making a peach wine.We started by sugar...
10/24/2022

We also saved some of the peaches from canning so that we could try our hands at making a peach wine.

We started by sugar juicing the peaches, then added the yeast and let it sit for a week. After that we racked it in order to get a good amount of the sediment out. Now it is just fermenting until the new year.

We are excited to see what it ends up tasting like, but we also know we have about another year before it will be ready to be shared with friends and family!

Next on the list of things to put up in storage was peaches. Again, the focus was on easily mashed, wholesome foods to ...
10/17/2022

Next on the list of things to put up in storage was peaches. Again, the focus was on easily mashed, wholesome foods to feed our little one, while also knowing that we can use them up in other ways if needed. The best part about peaches is that we were able to can them in just water, so no sugar added!

We ended up having a few jars not seal, so I went ahead and turned them into a peach crisp and it was amazing. We can't wait to use more of these throughout the winter, when we are definitely craving some of those summertime fruits!

So excited to have fresh wild blackberries to add to the freezer this year. We ended up picking almost 15 pounds of the...
08/28/2022

So excited to have fresh wild blackberries to add to the freezer this year. We ended up picking almost 15 pounds of them yesterday and are hoping to turn some into wine and the rest into jam. And of course the juice will be added to next year's lemonade concentrate!

Now that they are clean it's on to the next project...more canning!!

One of my most favorite times of the year is canning season. Yes, it is a busy time and yes, it is definitely a lot of ...
08/10/2022

One of my most favorite times of the year is canning season. Yes, it is a busy time and yes, it is definitely a lot of work, but I love seeing the fruit of all that hard work. Or in this case the beans. I also love seeing the cellar shelves getting filled full of yummy goodness that will last us until the next canning season.

Home canned beans are all of the convenience of store bought canned beans, without the price tag or all the preservatives of the ones bought at the store. It also means that I don't have to try to remember to soak dry beans the night before I want to use them, which I usually never plan that far ahead anyway!

My favorite part of washing eggs is getting to work on my egg pyramid stacking skills. I would say that the more eggs I...
07/25/2022

My favorite part of washing eggs is getting to work on my egg pyramid stacking skills. I would say that the more eggs I wash the more daring I get in my stacking, they keep getting closer and closer to the edge of the counter.

My second favorite part is having an empty egg basket to begin filling again.

Yesterday was a busy day canning tomato sauce and marinara sauce with the only person I know who is crazy enough to go a...
07/02/2022

Yesterday was a busy day canning tomato sauce and marinara sauce with the only person I know who is crazy enough to go along with my wild ideas (beyond my husband), my mom!

Last year we had bought the tomatoes that we used for canning season from the local farmer's market because we didn't think we would produce enough from my parents garden (our own garden hasn't been built yet, so my parents kindly grow extra for us). We thought wrong though, and ended up with lots of extra tomatoes. So we decided to prep them and freeze them to can at a later date when we actually needed more sauces. Yesterday was that day. We thawed out about 50 pounds of tomatoes and turned it into 40 pints of sauce.

It really is a wonderful feeling to can foods and see my storage shelves filling up. It's made even more special since we made wonderful memories and laughed the day away.

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Hamilton, MT
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