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living the sweet life in Alaska

Living the sweet life in Alaska

Alaskan Adventures. Log cabin Life. Homesteading.

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Peppernut Cookies

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Cleaning Beeswax

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Pressure Canning Turkey Meat

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Raising Turkeys for Meat

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I’m Lisa, Alaskan born (but not raised) and now I’m back in the last frontier with my own family. Welcome to our little log cabin in the woods!

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Cow girl💕 Our Jersey heifer Buttercup is almos

Cow girl💕

Our Jersey heifer Buttercup is almost 10 months old. Our oldest daughter (13) will be showing her at our local fair next week. Practice makes perfect.

#jerseycowsofinstagram #jerseycow #jerseycalf #dairycows

I was finally able to cut into my very first wheel

I was finally able to cut into my very first wheel of hard cheese! I used the Farmhouse Cheddar recipe from @cheesemaking so it only had to age for one month. My friend @procrastibaking_with_kacey made sourdough discard crackers for the occasion and brought of bottle of her dad’s @oaktreemanorwinery wine! Homemade all around. And so delicious. Making cheese has become one of my favorite perks of having a dairy cow.

#cheese #homemadecheese #homesteading

Cow love💕 #jerseycowsofinstagram #jerseycow #j

Cow love💕

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The past two days have been spent processing our s

The past two days have been spent processing our salmon catch for the year. The fillets are divided, half being vacuum sealed and frozen and the other half are cut into strips, cold-smoked, then pressure canned. Canned salmon is so delicious, we eat it straight from the jar but it’s also great for dip, cakes, pot pie, and more.

#salmon #alaska #alaskasalmon #fishing #canning

Managed to squeeze in a hive check before processi

Managed to squeeze in a hive check before processing salmon yesterday. These are our Old World Carniolans, not one of our overwintered hives but a new colony we added just this spring. They’re doing fantastic! We look for signs of a healthy colony including locating the queen, all stages of brood (eggs, larva, capped brood), and stores of pollen and nectar. We’re excited to try a new breed of bee and hope that they do as well as our Russian colonies, which are booming this year.

#beekeeping #backyardbeekeeping #homesteadinglife #homestead #honeycomb #bee #bees #beekeeper

Celebrating the solstice and Father’s Day with t

Celebrating the solstice and Father’s Day with the return of our fisherman! He’s back from his annual trip to dip net in the CopperRiver and bring home our year’s supply of sockeye salmon. We’ll spend the day filleting our fish and getting it in the brine to smoke and pressure can it tomorrow.

#alaska #alaskalife #salmon #fishing

Watching the cows eat is definitely one of my favo

Watching the cows eat is definitely one of my favorite ways to enjoy a spring afternoon.

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The salmon will be running soon and within a few w

The salmon will be running soon and within a few weeks, we’ll have our new batch of fresh sockeye for the year. We don’t have very much left from last year’s catch so we’re eating up what remains. Salmon fillets make for a simple, quick, and healthy meal that our family loves!

#alaska #alaskalife #salmon #salmondinner #wildalaskansalmon

We do just about everything outside these days whi

We do just about everything outside these days while the weather is beautiful. That includes waxing cheese! I have a small electric burner on a table where I can boil a pot of water to set my pot of wax in to melt it. We use wax from our bees instead of buying cheese wax. It’s reusable once peeled off the cheese. This block of Farmhouse Cheddar will have to age for awhile before we can enjoy it!

Recipe from @cheesemaking

#homesteading #alaska #jerseycow #rawmilk #rawmilkcheese #cheese #homemadecheese #cheesemaking

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