Welcome to The Cardinal Cottage Homestead

 

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We’re the Hortons, owners of The Cardinal Cottage Homestead in Northwest Arkansas.

In the spring of 2024, we sold our home in town, and moved to 3 acres in the country to raise our little family and pursue the lifestyle we’d been slowly inching towards, in full force.

From gardening to baking, renovating our 1960’s farmhouse, and adding “just one more” animal to our growing homestead, we love this life we’re building.

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View fullsize Recital 2026 in the books! This was the first year I had two little dancers to watch, and boy was it fun! Watching my friends with more than 2 girls out there, I am amazed by you! Two was an adventure! 😂 4 dances, 4 costume changes and a sometimes
View fullsize Little bit of life — 1. Don’t all kindergarten graduates take pics with their goats? ❤️ 2. My pink roses are my favorite. 3. But the red were gifted each year on Mother’s Day, so they’re pretty sweet, too. 4. We raised butter
View fullsize How we all feel that we’re officially done with school! 😅🎉 This was by far my hardest year yet of homeschooling. Multiple factors played into it, but I can confidently say that schooling more than one child at a time on different grade level
View fullsize Before I even realized it was Mother’s Day weekend, I had one thing on my agenda — plant the garden. Normally I transplant everything the first week of May, but timing just didn’t work out this year. Conveniently, Mother’s D
View fullsize It’s the crumbs and the cups, left sitting around. The apple that’s missing only 2 bites, hiding in a basket of toys. It’s the 2 AM stumble into my room, stuffy in hand, as they crawl, sleepily into the middle of my bed, as I pull
View fullsize Our spunky, sweet, wild child girl turned 6 today! 🎉 We like to give them a “fun day” on their birthday and pick out some favorite meals and activities to go do; her requests this year were pretty lowkey for today — Apple crisp f
View fullsize I live for spring. Spring flowers. Spring foods. Spring scents. Spring babies. Spring smiles. Just give me all the things spring. 💛
View fullsize Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus. ❤️ Happy Easter, friends! ✝️
View fullsize 21 year old me had vastly different ideas for what the next 10 years would look like. She wouldn’t believe 31 year old me would be back on a small farm, baking sourdough, prepping gardens each spring, midwifing goat births at 10:30 PM, running
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