After you choose what you want to grow (I have some help with those decisions in this article), it is time to think about how you are going to grow it. There are some affiliate links in this article. Clicking on these links does not cost you any extra money, but helps give us a… Continue reading How to set up your garden!
Recently, I sat inside on a cold spring day, watching the rain fall out the window, counting the days before we get to our expected last frost date (we still have about a month and a half), I found myself longing for fresh summer harvests, so I opened yet another of our jars of salsa… Continue reading How to feel like you are eating a fresh summer harvest all year long! Bonus: Easy Salsa Chicken Recipe
This is one of the parts of homesteading that I feel like can be really intimidating until you start doing it. Once you get a compost situation going on your homestead it is one of those things that works passively in the background. You add to it, and adjust your contributions when necessary. It can… Continue reading Beginning Composting
Packaging as a whole, seems to make us feel better. We see it as sanitary, as clean, as safe. In reality the sanitary, clean, and safe comes from whatever that item was packaged in and what is contained inside that package. Is the plastic that it is packaged in safe? Is it leaching chemicals into… Continue reading Why do we rely on packaged goods? Bonus: Roasted Garlic Recipe
When we first set out on our homesteading journey we didn’t have much experience with the homesteading lifestyle, but we definitely had homesteading dreams. Both of us grew up in homes with moms that cooked from scratch, and did a small amount of outdoor vegetable and flower gardening, but neither of us had much experience… Continue reading 5 of the Easiest Changes you can make NOW to Start an Urban or Suburban Homestead without any Experience
Making your own hot cocoa mix is extremely easy and only calls for 5 ingredients! Cooking from scratch is a big part of our homesteading journey, it's one of our "5 of the Easiest Changes you can make NOW to start an Urban or Suburban Homestead without any Experience". Along our journey to remove foods… Continue reading Homemade Hot Cocoa
We have been making our own veggie stock for a few years now. It was one of the first steps that we took in making our kitchen more “from scratch.” This is one of the easiest and cheapest things you can do towards making your home a homestead. Even if you don’t have homestead dreams… Continue reading How to Make Homemade Vegetable Stock from Kitchen Scraps
Our shower/bath handle started getting a little tight, then it was tough to move at all, then we went through the trauma of a bath time with the babes when we couldn’t get the water to turn off at all. Thankfully with a little elbow grease we got the faucet turned off, but were then… Continue reading Save Money and Time by Doing Small Home Repairs On Your Own
Last month, when we realized it was getting close to tree tapping time, we knew we would need a place where we could effectively boil our sap. Our fire pit, was more like a burn pile and it had been neglected since the middle of the summer and we needed something we could get a… Continue reading Fire Pit Makeover
In our homesteading adventures I have read many articles and watched many youtube videos about those trying to live completely off their land. The trouble that many seem to run into is sugar and sweeteners. While sugar is not an important part of healthy eating, it is something that makes eating more enjoyable. If you… Continue reading Adventures in Syrup
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