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.
Making Stock from Leftover Bones & Carcasses
Of all of the joys that the last few years have brought us, making our own stock from leftover bones has been the most consistently satisfying. It’s odd how much joy a carcass can bring in this household. Here's my methodology for having tons of homemade stock throughout the year!
The Summer Of Love: My Annual Garden Review For 2022
In a world where everyone has thousands of anxieties, I have only one big one: that I'm wasting time. That I'm inefficient. That I should get more done with the time available. It's why I'm so dang efficient, so bent on so many projects, why my brain can easily break down the number of mouse clicks an action will take and swiftly think of a way to cut at least two.
In the spirit of always improving, in making sure that next year is at least incrementally better, I'm taking a look back at the 2022 gardening season and all of my lessons learned.
The First Summer!!!! My Annual Garden Review For 2021
I bet you thought that all of the exclamation points in this title were happy, joyous, triumphant ones. But I made some solid garden mistakes this year. And although experimentation and growing is always a joy, you can probably re-read those as shouting, exasperated exclamation points. Here’s what happened…
Make Your Own Pectin from Scratch! Here's How...
PECTIN. So many people haven’t heard of it and the ones who have tend to think of it in it’s blue or pink little boxes—a few pouches of powder or liquid that, by some science or magic, turns your raspberries into jam. And then a pandemic, a shortage, and near extinction—finding pectin was like mining for gold. And so—a little at home DIY saves the day (again!).