Share Your Voice with Dedicated Readers Who Want Real Cottagecore Lifestyle Skills
We’re inviting select contributors to share their expertise with our growing community of readers who crave authentic, hands-on wisdom.
Cottagestead reaches an engaged audience actively building self-sufficient, cottagecore-inspired lives, whether they’re homesteading on a balcony, managing a small-scale homestead, or developing traditional cottage skills in suburban backyards.
Three Ways to Contribute Your Expertise
Whether you’re a seasoned homesteader, established blogger, professional journalist, or thought leader in cottagecore-inspired sustainable living, we offer multiple ways to share your education and skills with our community:
1. Share Your Published Work
Already have exceptional content on your blog? We’d love to feature your best posts with full attribution and backlinks to drive traffic to your platform while providing added value for our readers.
2. Create Original Content
Write fresh articles, tutorials, recipes, or essays exclusively for Cottagestead. Perfect for writers who want to craft new content for our specific audience.
3. Be Interviewed
Don’t want to write? Share your expertise through an in-depth interview. We handle the questions, writing, and editing, and you share your knowledge.
Read on to learn more…
How to Share Your Published Content
Already have great content on your blog? We’d love to feature it.
We welcome previously published content from established bloggers and content creators whose work aligns with our mission. If you’ve written exceptional posts on homesteading, cottage gardening, food preservation, seasonal recipes, traditional skills, or sustainable living, we’d be honored to share them with our audience, subject to space in our content calendar.
Benefits for You
- Reach a new, highly targeted audience of engaged cottagecore lifestyle homesteaders
- High quality backlinks to your original post and website
- Full author attribution with bio and links to your platform
- Proper canonical tags to preserve your SEO (when applicable)
- Cross-promotion on our social channels
- Build lasting relationships for future collaboration
How it works: We’ll republish your content with full attribution, an introduction linking to your blog, and proper canonical tags. You retain all rights to your content.
How to Create Original Content
Write fresh, exclusive content that reaches thousands of engaged homesteaders and cottage lifestyle enthusiasts.
Who We’re Looking For
We welcome writers with practical expertise in:
- Cottagecore lifestyle: cottagecore aesthetics, cottage home style, the cottagecore lifestyle arts (baking, quilting, making, crafting, cottage gardening)
- Cottage, homestyle cooking, and farm-to-table recipes using from-scratch ingredients
- Food blogging with a homesteading, seasonal, or cottage kitchen focus
- Small-scale homesteading systems
- Urban and apartment homesteading techniques
- Cottage style gardening, food forests, and permaculture for small spaces
- Food preservation: canning, fermenting, dehydrating, root cellaring
- Traditional skills: herbalism, natural remedies, handicrafts, seasonal living
- Small-scale livestock: chickens for eggs, rabbits for fiber, bees, aquaponics
- Sustainable and regenerative living and closed-loop systems
- Homesteading for beginners – practical first steps
- And many more
What we value: Accessible wisdom that works for real people in real spaces.
Journalists & Professional Writers Welcome
You don’t always need homesteading experience to contribute.
We especially welcome journalists, professional writers, and experienced content creators who bring strong storytelling, research skills, and editorial excellence to our cottagecore lifestyle and homesteading space.
If you’re a professionally trained writer who can interview expert homesteaders, research sustainable living trends, or tell compelling human-interest stories about food systems and self-sufficiency, we’d love to hear from you.
How to Be Interviewed to Share Your Expertise
Don’t want to write, but have valuable knowledge to share?
We regularly feature in-depth interviews with experts in cottagecore living, homesteading, sustainable and regenerative agriculture, traditional skills, food systems, herbalism, permaculture, and much more. If you’re an expert practitioner, educator, or innovator in these fields, we’d love to meet you.
Benefits
- A platform to share your expertise with an engaged, action-oriented audience
- Quality backlinks and valuable, credible exposure for your business or blog
- Professional, thoughtful questions that showcase your knowledge
- Editorial support throughout the process – we handle everything
Why Contribute
Reach an Actively Engaged Audience
- Readers building self-sufficient homesteading systems at every scale
- Cottage lifestyle and cottagecore enthusiasts are ready to move beyond inspiration to implementation
- Organic food lovers searching for seasonal recipes, preservation techniques, and cottage cooking inspiration
- People searching for wholesome recipes and practical, inspiring cottagecore, homesteading, and cottage gardening advice
- An audience that values authentic expertise and traditional knowledge
Build Your Platform
- Gain exposure to readers interested in sustainable cottage living and homesteading
- Establish authority in the homesteading, cottagecore, food blogging, and sustainable living niches
- High-quality backlinks to your website, blog, or business
- Author bio with links to your platform, social media, and offerings
What We Publish
- How-to guides for homesteading skills and systems
- Seasonal recipes and cottage cooking for the homestead kitchen
- Food preservation tutorials: canning, fermenting, pickling, dehydrating
- Small-space solutions for urban and apartment homesteaders
- Traditional recipes and heritage cooking methods
- Food blogging content featuring homegrown ingredients and seasonal eating
- Herbal wisdom and natural remedies with conventional knowledge
- Personal essays on slow living, seasonal rhythms, and intentional homesteading
- In-depth interviews with homesteading experts and thought leaders
- News and features on sustainable living
- Resource guides for cottage gardening and self-sufficiency
- And much more
✓ Ready to Share?
Whether you’d like to share your published work, write exclusive content, or be featured in an expert interview, we’d love to meet you.