Comfort Foods and Confessions From a Minnesota Homestead

The cookbook author and blogger shares recipes and lessons learned from working close to the land

Amanda Rettke, her husband, and their five children live on a 15-acre homestead in Minnesota, where they garden and preserve food, raise free-range chickens and meat hens, and keep bees. Amanda Rettke

Before moving to her 15-acre Minnesota homestead with her family in 2011, Amanda Rettke jokes that she thought food grew at the grocery store.

“I had zero knowledge about raising chickens or feeding your family off of a garden, but we dove right in,” she said.