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Why You Should Plant Cover Crops In Your Garden
I don’t know why homesteading makes me so impulsive… Whether we’re talking about my propensity to impulse-buy farm animals, or my tendency to fire up a canning project in the middle of a busy morning...
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Canning Pears in Maple Syrup
Some folks like a little fruit with their sugar. I’m not one of them. I mean if I’m going to the trouble of canning good food for my family, I’d rather it be good food, not half fruit, half refined...
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How to Harvest and Roast Sunflower Seeds
I may have harvested a lifetime supply of sunflower seeds. For some reason, the sunflowers grew like gangbusters this year, even while everything else struggled. (Funny story: all of my sunflowers...
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How to Bottle Kombucha at Home
Tea is fermenting in my kitchen as I write this. I don’t know about you, but I have no desire to shell out the big bucks that grocery stores charge for this stuff, so I decided to start bottling my...
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Flavoring Kombucha When You’re Making it at Home
I’m not a cookie-cutter kinda gal. When Jill asked me to share some details with you last week about how to make your own kombucha (& why), I was all in, because I’m pretty passionate about this...
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3 Home Dairy Myths That Are Holding You Back
It’s kinda like a status symbol. That bowl of ricotta on my counter that I just made myself? It gives me rockstar status y’all. And I know I’m not the only one. For many folks who dream of...
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Homemade Salt Dough Ornaments
Long winter nights give me a burst of creative energy. The other seasons are loaded with long, busy days on a homestead. But winter gives our family long evening hours and a little more time on our...
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Chocolate Pudding Cake Recipe
This chocolate pudding cake recipe has been a stand-by in my kitchen for nearly 15 years. Mostly because it was the only dessert I knew how to make back in my “Jill hates cooking” days. (If you had...
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Vegetables that Grow in the Shade
You can have a successful and plentiful garden even if you have a lot of shade. In this post, I’m sharing my best tips about vegetables that grow in the shade. I’ll cover advice on figuring out your...
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The Ultimate Guide to Canning Safety
This Ultimate Guide to Canning Safety covers important issues for everyone who is home-canning. Learn necessary tips about botulism concerns, which foods can safely be canned, which foods should NOT be...
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Canning Chicken (How to do it Safely)
Canning chicken at home is easier than you think and not only stocks your pantry, but can make on-the-fly meal prep even easier. Just grab a jar, pop the top, and you’re ready to add cooked chicken to...
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Easy Dough Recipe (for Bread, Rolls, Pizza, & More!)
There’s a time and place for artisan loaves and fancy brick-oven pizza crusts… And then there’s a time when you are staring at the flour and yeast in your cupboard and just wanna make a basic loaf of...
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The Ultimate Guide to Growing Sprouts
Knowing how to grow sprouts at home is a simple skill that everyone should have in their arsenal. Gardening is therapy for me. But I get it that many folks can’t have a big garden. Heck, I know Jill...
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The Great Big List of Toilet Paper Alternatives
Here I am… 34-years old, mother of three, successful business owner… writing a post about toilet paper alternatives. Life is weird. The empty store shelves and non-stop Facebook posts about paper...
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How to Make Your Own Sourdough Starter
Flour and water. That’s all you need to make your own yeast in the form of a homemade sourdough starter. With just a little bit of patience and this simple recipe, you’ll have a starter that will...
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The Best Beginner Sourdough Bread Recipe
Learn how to make a simple homemade sourdough bread recipe in your very own kitchen. This is a homestead-version of sourdough bread, which is a non-fussy technique that will not require complicated...
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Fast Growing Vegetables to Grow for an Early Harvest
This list of fast growing vegetables will help you get harvestable produce from your garden in just a few weeks. I include additional tips for having a successful quick growing garden and some of the...
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Troubleshooting Sourdough: Your Questions Answered
Sourdough is super trendy right now and I’m loving it. Who would have thought, that in 2020, the whole world would suddenly have an interest in ancient methods for capturing wild yeast?! Anyway, I’ve...
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Ideas for Making Bread Without Yeast
Making homemade bread does not mean you have to scrounge around to find yeast. This is a list of ways for making all sorts of delicious baked goods and breads without commercial baker’s yeast. Did I...
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Save Time by Using Chicken Power on Your Homestead
I’m generally pretty Type-A when it comes to homesteading stuff. But this year, my obsession seems to have reached an all-time high… We’re planning on adding a greenhouse; we’re adding a better-quality...
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