Hey there!
I’m Katie.
Welcome to the Johnson Home NC blog where our family’s mission is to encourage others to take back traditional skills by sharing learned experiences and offering our local community homemade and homegrown alternatives.
Our family is homesteading on small acreage and learning new skills not passed down to us.
I’m a small town country girl who was raised the same but was too stubborn to listen as Mom, Nana, and my aunts tried to teach me things. Important things like canning, keeping a summer garden, and cooking homemade dinner with real food. They tried! I just didn’t listen and take notes. Now, I wish we had tried harder. But here I am later in life teaching myself the things.
Generation to Generation
I want to teach my children what I’m learning as I’m learning it.
Because I want to teach them how to grow their own real food and prepare it. My children need to know that just because something is conveniently located in the grocery store, doesn’t make it better than what can be homemade. Usually that can be done without all the additives, preservatives, and Lord knows what else. This is a big motherhood goal for me.
Willing to try new things and grow where we are
In this Johnson Home NC blog, know that we aren’t a perfect family of crunchy, healthy-always people but we try to be more conscious of what we are consuming.
I like to refer to us as half-crunchy.
Doing what we can where we are with what we have, learning new skills along the way on our one acre homestead. And I have the most patient husband on the planet who puts up with me and my “babe, look at this from Instagram. It looks simple enough, right?” ideas.
He brings them to fruition without complaint… and maybe a tiny bit of help from me sometimes.
What you’ll find in the Johnson Home NC Blog
In the Johnson Home NC blog, you’ll find me sharing some of my favorite recipes and new skills with you.
Sharing is caring and if we keep these things to ourselves, how will future generations know this is how people have survived and thrived since God created the world?
Exactly! So I’ll be handing out that information and some gardening things, too. Ideas, tips, tricks, experiences I’ve had mainly by trial and error.
What you’ll find here:
- raised bed kitchen gardening
- soap making
- composting
- sourdough
- faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
- simple from scratch cooking
- one acre homesteading
- raising laying hens and meat birds
- maybe a small craft or how-to
Homesteading doesn’t mean you need 25 acres and a dairy cow but oh how I wish I could have all of those! We have figured out one acre homesteading… and continue to learn new ways all the time.
Homesteading isn’t so much about “self-sufficiency” here at Johnson Home, it’s about stewarding the land and animals God gave us to provide nourishment for our family. Because we can’t do it alone or by ourselves. We need the Good Lord’s provisions and community.
Where did the name Johnson Home come from?
In late 2020 when we were living in a time where the world was demanding we “stay home”, many were beginning to not enjoying being cramped at home and ready to bust out. To leave, to travel, to not work from home anymore.
Being as I’ve never loved being told what to do, me and my family decided we were going to make “home a place we don’t feel the need to escape from”.
Projects began to make our yard and home feel like the blessing they are and a place we love to be. This became our Johnson Home.
Homemaker, homesteader, homeschool, homegrown, homemade… we love HOME.
Here’s to sticking around these parts
Glad you’re here for the journey, friend. Feel free to pin recipes and share to your social medias anything you see here! Sharing what we know is how we grow.
Here’s one word of advice: don’t look at what you see in this blog and think you’ve gotta do it all at once.
Or look at any “homesteader”, gardener, influencer, whatever. That’s an unrealistic expectation of simple living and homesteading!
The best way is to make a list of what you’d like to try learning then take one thing at a time and get really good at it before moving on to the next thing.
Let’s do some kitchen gardening and cook from homemade recipes together, friend. I’d love to hear back on how it’s going for you in the comments!
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