Our Rainwater Catchment System
Our Homestead’s Rainwater Catchment System Our homestead’s gardening rain water catchment system took time to figure out. Just like the rest of our property, weRead More →
2016-06-13
Chocolate Strawberry Sauce
Chocolate Strawberry Sauce Made for Water Bath Canning The only word to describe this homemade canned chocolate strawberry ice cream topping is yummy, decadent, and wickedlyRead More →
2016-06-05
Painted Game Board Picnic Table
How To Make a Painted Game Board on a Picnic Table Over a long holiday weekend, we played with our newly made horseshoe pit onRead More →
2016-06-04
Toilet Paper Roll Seed Starter Cups
How to Make and Plant Toilet Paper Roll Seed Starter Cups. When starting our family’s homesteading journey, the first thing I needed to conquer wasRead More →
2016-04-15
Pina Colada Jam
Pina Colada Jam Recipe Made For Water Bath Canning What a treat it is to spread a bit of the island on your breakfast biscuit orRead More →
2016-04-02
Carrot Pineapple Orange Marmalade
Carrot Pineapple Orange Marmalade Recipe for Water Bath Canner Carrot pineapple orange marmalade is another great and easy water bath canning recipe to use upRead More →
2016-03-27
Kiwi Jam
Kiwi Jam Recipe for Water Bath Canning I love kiwi fruit, always have since I was a little girl. Unfortunately, we don’t grow any hereRead More →
2016-03-26
Pineapple Jam
Pineapple Jam Recipe for Water Bath Canning I have been quite lucky enough to find great sales on fresh, whole pineapples. I can find themRead More →
2016-03-26
Backyard Dice
Backyard Dice How to Make and Play with Large Wooden Dice for Backyard Play Homemade backyard dice made from leftover 4×4 wood beams are perfectRead More →
2016-03-10
Dijon Mustard
Dijon Mustard Recipe for Water Bath Canning Did you know Dijon mustard is a style of mustard which originated in the Dijon region of France?Read More →
2016-03-09
Wholegrain Beer Mustard
Wholegrain Beer Mustard Recipe for Water Bath Canning Mustard can be such a great condiment for game time or really any kind of gathering. This mustard pairsRead More →
2016-03-07
Wholegrain Mustard
Wholegrain Mustard Recipe for Water Bath Canning I started making my own mustard when I would cook dinner and needed some but didn’t have it in the fridge.Read More →
2016-03-05
Vintage Housekeeping Tips from Mid 19th Century Cookbooks
Vintage Housekeeping Tips from the 1800’s Going through some old cookbooks at my mom’s house a few weeks ago and I found a few of these Read More →
2016-02-03
Peach Pie Filling
Peach Pie Filling Recipe for Water Bath Canning Years back, I received three large Ziploc bags of peaches from the Farmer’s Market from a familyRead More →
2016-01-31
How We Lived Comfortably During a 24+ Hour Power Outage
Surviving the 2015 winter storm with a power outage in total comfort. As I start to write this post, we are “iced in” at theRead More →
2016-01-24
The Chicken Tractor
How to Build Your Own Chicken Tractor I have noticed, through the world of internet, that people with backyard chickens either have a permanent coopRead More →
2015-06-17
If These Walls Could Talk: A History Of Our Homestead
Have you ever wondered about your geneology? Have you ever heard stories from your grandparents about their parents or their parent’s parents? Well what aboutRead More →
2015-01-26
Build a Temporary Garden Fence
Temporary Garden Fencing: How To Build At the start of last winter, I had a small but thriving blueberry bush. I had just planted itRead More →
2014-12-21
Blackberry & Raspberry Trellis
Blackberry Trellis: How to Build Disclaimer: This gardening post is written from the perspective of the hardy zone of 7b-8a. Our home sits on aRead More →
2014-12-21