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.
Diving right in is a habit of Rettke’s. As the owner of the popular blog “I Am Baker” and author of the bestselling cookbook “Surprise Inside Cakes: Amazing Cakes for Every Occasion—With a Little Something Extra Inside,” much of her success comes from not being afraid to get her feet wet.
Today, Rettke and her husband are the proud owners of a working homestead, complete with 25 chickens, a few bee hives, guinea hens, and a thriving garden. Rettke’s new book, “Homestead Recipes,” sprung out of what makes life on her farm worthwhile: cooking from the land and sharing the fruits of her labor with her family….