New Hope Homestead with the Brandows

New Hope Homestead with the Brandows Follow our chaotic journey to raising our own food, healthier living, soap making & self-sufficiency.

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09/01/2026

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We raise our own chicken and will have extras around the end of October. They are pasture raised without antibiotics or...
08/31/2026

We raise our own chicken and will have extras around the end of October. They are pasture raised without antibiotics or hormones of any kind and each chicken weighs at least 6lbs.

$4/lb for whole chickens or $5/lb if parted out (breasts, leg quarters, wings).

If you're interested in purchasing some, please comment or send me a PM.

A fresh batch of Jewelweed Itch Relief Salve is ready to go! I've got 8 available.
08/31/2026

A fresh batch of Jewelweed Itch Relief Salve is ready to go! I've got 8 available.

So much butternut squash! Grown without pesticides of any kind.$2 each Self serve on the porch on Carson Road in Carson ...
08/29/2026

So much butternut squash!
Grown without pesticides of any kind.

$2 each
Self serve on the porch on Carson Road in Carson (PM for address)
Cash, venmo or cashapp

Now stocked at Dewitt Market -Fresh Fruit, Vegetables, and Moore !
08/29/2026

Now stocked at Dewitt Market -Fresh Fruit, Vegetables, and Moore !

🐐🧼 Exciting news! 🧼🐐Beginning tomorrow, our handmade goat milk soap will be available at Dewitt Market! 🎉We’re so excite...
08/29/2026

🐐🧼 Exciting news! 🧼🐐
Beginning tomorrow, our handmade goat milk soap will be available at Dewitt Market! 🎉

We’re so excited to have our soaps available locally and even easier for you to grab. If you’re stopping by Dewitt Market -Fresh Fruit, Vegetables, and Moore , be sure to check them out and take home a bar (or two 😉).

08/23/2026

Many people don't know that the U.S. government used to give away pressure canners. The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was part of Roosevelt's "New Deal" and it was designed to aid poor rural farmers. Among many other things the FSA did was offer classes in pressure canning, sending poor farmer's wives home with a pressure canner at no cost to them.

Whatever else we may think about this program, there's no doubt it made the lives of poor rural women a little better - and helped give poor families better nutrition. Before they adopted pressure canners, these families ate only root cellar vegetables (and dried peas/beans) in winter. As those root vegetables sat in the cellar, they gradually lost nutrtion, and by late winter or early spring they were often gone, resulting in a "hunger gap" in their diet until spring provided wild weeds to eat.

In addition, meat supplies could run low, as families were relying on smoked meat, butchered in fall. Fresh meat could only be had in winter if someone had time to hunt.

This photo was taken in August of 1941 by an FSA photographer John Collier. It features Eulia Smart, who is quoted by Collier:

'I never had a pressure cooker before, an' when I got this one, I canned everything in sight' -- 264 quarts since spring."


08/23/2026

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A half day of work means more time to make soap! Today, I made 2 Honeysuckle, 2 Pumpkin Spice & 1 Autumn Fig Harvest. It...
08/21/2026

A half day of work means more time to make soap! Today, I made 2 Honeysuckle, 2 Pumpkin Spice & 1 Autumn Fig Harvest.

It's almost sweater season! 🍂🍁

If yall remember LOVE SPELL by Victoria Secret, this soap is for you. It is called "Love" and smells just like the mista...
08/21/2026

If yall remember LOVE SPELL by Victoria Secret, this soap is for you. It is called "Love" and smells just like the mistakes you made in 2000. 😅

These will be ready in 4 weeks.

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