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Historical homesteader hack: When life gives you weeds, brew a coffee alternative with chicory root! A brew-tiful solution! 📸: NPS/Amber Kirkendall #CoffeeAlternative #HistoricalHacks #Homesteading #ChicoryRoot

You might be a Homestead Ranger if you start your day making the bed in a historic cabin from 1867! Rangers protect the bedding from critters every night. 📸: Amber Kirkendall #HomesteadNationalHistoricalPark #HistoricCabin #BehindTheScenes #ParkRangerLife

Discover PEARfection at Homestead National Historical Park! Our heritage orchard has free pears ready in August. Come taste history! 📸: NPS/Amber Kirkendall #HomesteadAct #LivingWall #FreeFruit #HistoryYouCanEat

Homesteaders scrubbed clothes by hand—tough on stains and arms! Now, washing machines do the work with a button push. Still a chore, but no more hauling water! 📸: NPS/Amber Kirkendall #HomesteadHistory #LaundryDay #ThenAndNow

The Heritage Center at Homestead National Historical Park was designed to suggest the shape of a plow breaking the land for farming. This uniquely shaped visitor center opened in 2007.

You're invited to join us in celebrating #America250! Join us for the American Revolution Experience Exhibit at Homestead NHP from July 24 to August 7, 2025! Photo: DAR #AmericanRevolution #HistoryExhibit #HomesteadNHP #RevolutionaryWar #LivingHistory #ExploreHistory

Come to Homestead NHP's Education Center this Saturday, July 26, at 2 pm for a free program listening to the sounds of nature with Homestead's Artist in Residence Matt Whitman. Learn about Whitman’s art, pinhole photography, and experiences. Photo: © Matt Whitman

The Graff Pond is situated next to the parking lot at the Homestead Heritage Center. It is named for the Graff family who, like Daniel Freeman, homesteaded. In fact, the Freeman and Graff families helped each other out, like most homesteading neighbors. Image: Graff Pond/NPS

Happy Wildflower Wednesday! 🌼 Today's star is the compass plant (Silphium laciniatum), a prairie bloom with leaves that point north and south, roots over 15 feet deep, and a life of over 100 years! 🌱 Photos: NPS/Jesse Bolli #WildflowerWednesday #Prairie #CompassPlant

Homestead's American Revolution Experience Exhibit opens today! 🎉 This interactive DAR exhibition runs until Aug 7, 2025. 📷: NPS/Robert Hartwig #AmericanRevolution #HistoryExhibit #HomesteadNHP #RevolutionaryWar #LivingHistory #MuseumEvents #DaughtersOfTheAmericanRevolution

Come to Homestead NHP's Education Center this Saturday, July 26, at 2 pm for a free program listening to the sounds of nature with Homestead's Artist in Residence Matt Whitman. Learn about Whitman’s art, pinhole photography, and experiences. Photo: © Matt Whitman

Scrip Warrant⁉️ Veterans or their descendants could claim up to 160 acres through the 1855 Scrip Warrant Act. Our museum holds a scrip redeemed by David Culbertson in NE. This scrip passed through three people before getting to David! 📷: NPS #ScripWarrant #MuseumCollections

Happy Harvests! 🌾 Two weeks ago, we harvested our winter wheat demo field at Homestead NHP—6 sacks of grain! Huge thanks to VIP Noel for his passion and equipment! Photos: NPS/Robert Hartwig #HappyHarvest #VolunteerInParks #VIP #LivingHistory #AllisChalmers #AllCropCombine

Homestead's first management plan aimed to restore seasonal flowering prairie plants. Explore the trails at Homestead NHP and discover the beauty of the prairie, just as the first homesteaders did! 🌾 More info: go.nps.gov/HikeHOME Image: NPS #NatureTrails #ManagementPlan

Can you hear the prairie? 🌾 Homestead NHP's Prairie Plaza is a great spot for inspiration and reflection. What will it tell you? Come, listen, and see! Photos: NPS/Doug Cudaback #HomesteadNationalHistoricalPark #PrairiePlaza #TallgrassPrairie #FindYourPark #PrairieViews

This Wildflower Wednesday, look for individual flowers in the sea of prairie grass. Today, let's appreciate the delicate white flowers of July. Whorled milkweed hosts monarch larvae! 🌼 🦋 Photos: NPS/Jesse Bolli #WildflowerWednesday #MonarchButterflies #WildflowerSeason

Used as a means for fencing livestock, the basic design for barbed wire was introduced in the 1860s. As pioneers began making their own, different styles were showing up all over homesteads. Some of these styles can be seen outside of our Heritage Center. Image Credit: NPS

Winsor Fry served in the Continental Army but never received his promised land. Learn more in the American Revolution Experience Exhibit on display at our Education Center! 📷: Daughters of the American Revolution #ForgottenPatriots #BlackHistory #RevolutionaryWar

Out with the old and in with the... older. A new historic bed is on display in the Palmer-Epard Cabin. The interior of the cabin now more accurately reflects what would have been used in the early years of this 1867 cabin. 📷: Alicia Henderson #HistoricCabin #BehindTheScenes

The future of the American Goldfinch is uncertain due to climate change. At Homestead, we work to provide a safe haven for vulnerable birds. What birds do you see impacted? 📷: NPS/Robert Hartwig #AmericanGoldfinch #ClimateVulnerable #BirdWatching #ConservationMatters