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Working hard to find the perfect recipe

Kate Miller and Katy Able (with Arwen Ek behind the camera) at our greenhouse elixir tasting party at Alpine Botanicals last night! Believe it or not, it took the three of us two hours to perfect six amazing recipes for…

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What is this Spring Cleanse, anyway?

This is our fifth year of hosting our annual Spring Cleanse! So, what is it, anyway? Our Spring Cleanse is presented in two different formats – online, and in-person – at three different levels: gentle, intermediate, and deep/advanced. Here at…

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True Health: It’s all about Sustainability

Politics aside, any nationwide healthcare system – as an organized attempt of a nation to truly care for its citizens, that is – must ultimately consider it’s sustainability, it’s ability to care for human beings who are born, get sick,…

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Take a video tour of Homestead HQ!

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Announcing Mountain Mama Fun Run, August 12!

Dear Friends of the Homestead, I love our Mountain Mamas – some of the toughest mamas on the planet. We raise our families at 8,000+ feet, we shovel snow, we drag slash, we chop wood…and we love it! One of…

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Meet the Board: Katie Gerhard

In our ongoing quest to become a fully legitimate, self-supporting, tax-exempt nonprofit, The Holistic Homestead has finally recruited it’s first board of directors! We are pleased to introduce them to you, so you can get a feel for the community…

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Join the Homestead for Get Healthy! 2016

Do you know about the USDA’s online food tracker? It’s called Super Tracker and has cool features like setting goals, menu planning, a physical activity tracker and showing your daily food intake in terms of balanced nutrition spread across the…

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My 9 tried-and-true tips for a successful Spring cleanse

Melting snow, rising sap, budding trees…spring! Do you feel it in your bones…that restless energy calling you outside? Digging in the snow, on a treasure hunt for those first adventurous seedlings to burst into the full sun? Daring to go…

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The spirit of homesteading

Most of the content you will find at the Holistic Homestead is about the Holistic life – finding simple and natural health and well being in body, mind and soul. But what about the ‘Homestead’ part? I recently contributed an…

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