5 Gifts for Your Favorite Homesteading Bride
Being a bride had many, many, many challenges and for us, the registry was one of them, until we decided to include a number of things for our homesteading lifestyle, which we knew we would need one way or another. And boy did our friends show up. Here–a collection of the best homesteading gifts we received as a bride and groom–most of which were not really on our registry at all!
An Instant Pot is a Pressure Cooker–and You Should Buy One
For someone who cooks as much as I do, it may surprise you to learn that I do not love a lot of extra kitchen appliances. But if you don’t have a pressure cooker or you need one and you’ve been stubbornly avoiding the instapot like I was, this may be your sign to get one.
4 Ways I Prevent Canning Season from Ruining My Life (and my Kitchen)
Canning season is the world’s longest sustained assault on any kitchen. It makes every food-centered holiday look like an itty-bitty baby 5k; it's the ultra of ultramarathons, battering the body of my kitchen for hours and hours and hours and hours. For us, nestled in the Northeast, it lasts from early August to the end of October and involves some sort of prep, cooking, or cleaning almost every day.
You should totally do it.
Here: 4 ways that I prevent this assault from completely ruining my life, and my kitchen.