The Heart of the Homestead

Cultivating a Spirit of Simple Living Through Homemaking, Recipes, and Family

By: RuthAnn Zimmerman

Narrated by: RuthAnn Zimmerman

Through simple stories, recipes, and reflections, RuthAnn Zimmerman shares timeless wisdom, celebrates traditional values, and gives readers a peek behind the fence at what homestead life is really like.

Drawing from their Mennonite upbringings, RuthAnn Zimmerman and her husband, Elvin, chose early on in their marriage to build a life focused on family, hard work, and serving others. RuthAnn invites you to slow down, focus quietly, and listen closely to the heartbeat of the homestead as she offers insights on working together as a family, enjoying good food and fellowship, growing and preserving food, appreciating what you have, and finding contentment by doing more with less.

Along the way, you’ll enjoy some great recipes and heartwarming glimpses into RuthAnn’s everyday life as a homesteading mother of seven children. Spend some time on the farm with the Zimmermans.

©2025 RuthAnn Zimmerman (P)2025 Dreamscape Media

LOVE OF FAMILY

I love the way the author loves her family and everything in the book are ways to show them that with acts of service and how she and her husband are raising productive young men and women who above all love the Lord. Excellent book! Can’t wait for the next one

Blessing

This book was a true bleesing. Thank you RuthAnn for sharing your knowledge learned through life's many experience.

Very practical book

Loved everything- gardening advice, thriftiness, growing a garden, recipes -- all from a Christian perspective and with so much wisdom. RuthAnn did an incredible job of narrating the book too.

I adore her!

RuthAnn has such a lovely and humble way of conveying life lessons. I need to buy a physical copy too for the recipes.

The down home attitude

Way to go Ruth, I love your down home attitude toward simple living and loving your family