Learning to cook and bake from scratch is an essential part of the homesteading journey, and it is a huge step towards self sufficiency. It is simultaneously one of the easiest and most difficult parts as well. Developing a skill set in the kitchen will set you up for easy and stress free meal times… Continue reading Benefits of Cooking from Scratch and 5 Ideas to Teach Yourself How!
Garlic wears many hats: my favorite food, a member of the Allium family, a spice, a medicine, a dietary supplement, and has been used for thousands of years in many cultures in both cooking and healing. Garlic is an ingredient that I rarely follow the amount listed on a recipe. I fully believe that it… Continue reading Garlic is divine…
I really like to keep this blog filled with tips, tricks, and ideas to help you better your homestead, or to help you move further along in your homesteading dreams, but today I thought I would share with you the big step that our family has taken to do just that. My life has often… Continue reading More time on the homestead!
Hardening off your seedlings is an an important step in gardening if you have started your plants from seeds indoors. So let's chat a bit about the hows and the whys. 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 Start Seeds, “Harden Off,” and Plant Your Seedlings!
If the last three years has taught us nothing else, it has taught us that we need to take steps to rely more on ourselves and less on corporations. We need to be producers over consumers. There are some affiliate links in this article. Clicking on these links does not cost you any extra money,… Continue reading The Modern Urban Homesteading Movement Towards Self-Reliance and Self-Sufficiency
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!
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
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