For People who Like to Grow, Make, and Figure Things Out

Gardening, food, preparedness, recipes, quiet reflections, and old-fashioned know-how — shared weekly from our Wisconsin homestead. To subscribe, just enter your email in the sign-up form below.

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What you’ll receive

• A weekend newsletter with new and seasonal posts
• Practical gardening, food, and preservation guidance
• Calm, realistic preparedness ideas
• Recipes, home remedies, and wild food knowledge
• Occasional updates on free classes, guides, or trusted partner offers

Free Subscriber Bonuses

• Common Sense Homesteading 101 Printable Guide
• Printable Garden Planner
• Bread Baking Troubleshooting Guide and Q&A
• and more

This newsletter is for you if you…

• Enjoy learning practical skills at your own pace
• Prefer real-world experience over quick fixes
• Want to be more capable without being extreme
• Like a calm, thoughtful approach to preparedness
• Appreciate occasional reflections from life on a working homestead

You don’t need land, livestock, or a perfect plan — just curiosity and a willingness to learn.

A Note about Common Sense Home

I’m Laurie Neverman, creator of Common Sense Home. Common Sense Home is run by our family from a small homestead in northeast Wisconsin. We grow and preserve much of our food, experiment with practical resilience projects, and share what works (and what doesn’t) along the way.

We’re not perfect, and we don’t do everything ourselves — but we believe in learning, adapting, and using sound judgment to build steadier lives. Along the way we’ve gone through job losses, economic upheaval, and the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020. (More about us here.)

What Readers Say

“You make us readers feel like family, and you have solid advice because you and your family have paved the way for us to follow however it best fits our lives. I also love your recipes! ❤ Thank you for all you do.” – Krystal C.

“Your newsletters always feel like a note from a friend.” – Heather N.

“I like the sense of home and family and down to earth real living. You’re like my country cousin who teaches me the good ways.” – Roxyann B.

“I love the free guides. They are such a big help for me. All of the ones I have down loaded I have saved in my I-books. My husband and I have been slowly working on homesteading for the past four years and are planning a big move during this year. All of the information you share is awesome and I love it!!” – Nikki D.

If this sounds like a good fit, we’d be glad to have you along.

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— Laurie, Common Sense Home