5.28.26 | 🐓 How to homestead while renting

May 28, 2026

Tending to our lives with love is more than enough.

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Warmly,
AmyAnn Cadwell
& The Good Trade Team

​Noah Kahan’s newest album "The Great Divide" reflects on his New England roots through expansive storytelling that feels like curling up with a really good book.

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"Creating our small, humble homestead is keeping me connected to my life in a tangible way, and the rituals that come along with it are serving as an anchor in our days. Literally touching everything with my hands — building the coop, feeling the dirt, chasing the hens — is helping to rewire my brain in an increasingly technological world."

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​Read How We're Creating A Small Urban Homestead While Renting​

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Just because you have a tiny outdoor space doesn’t mean you can’t create a little outdoor oasis to sit out and enjoy the sun! Try these cute and sustainable bistro tables for dining al fresco this year.

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​Browse Cute Bistro Tables For Small Spaces​

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It's peach season, and we are making this healthy and seasonal (breakfast? dessert? both?!) on repeat.

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​Make Peach Pie Yogurt Bowls​
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🛍️ Buy it for life: This Reddit thread is dedicated to the goods that are high-quality, durable, and that you only have to buy once.

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🌈 Hospital of emotions: We have our eye on this colorful site-specific, fully immersive pop-up art installation in Los Angeles that explores human emotion.

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📝 A good question: Is there a dream in your heart that keeps gently (or not so gently!) nudging you?

​Join us Monday, June 8 at 10am on Zoom for a guided meditation and community discussion based on the article How To Create A Personal Curriculum You’ll Actually Stick To. ✏️

"Having a cat in a small apartment, I'm always looking for ways to keep everything smelling fresh and clean. I've been loving Azuna's Pet Odor Eliminator to keep our bathroom refreshed. The natural gel absorbs bad smells and refreshes with its lovely scent. I love that I can fill up the reuseable jar and forget it for a few months before refilling." [Check it out]

One reader's favorite summer hobby: "I often reply to the questions here with answers about working in my garden/yard. My low-cost hobby in the summer is upcycling things I find being discarded in my neighborhood as garden fixtures and things. Someone puts a an old wire dog crate out to toss, I turn it into a compost bin. Someone tosses out some old, lidless storage bins, I drill holes in them and fill them with garden soil to grow carrots and leeks. I even have been told by the owner of a rental house that he's replacing a few windows in the property, and I'm going to try to upcycle them into either cold frame covers for growing early crops or maybe even making them into a small greenhouse. An old coil of rope and some old garden hand tools someone was getting rid of have become a decorative wreath on my garden fence. I just love giving my imagination free rein and making something out of nothing!" We're obsessed with this, VE!

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