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Learn how to Dehydrate to preserve your harvest
Preserving the Harvest Sharing my Favorite Methods to Preserve the Harvest Dehydrating Dehydrating is a great way to preserve certain food, save space in the freezer and on the shelf! I use my dehydrator for herbs, jerky, onions. garlic, and peppers. I really enjoy my Cosori Dehydrator because the trays are stainless steel and…
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Preserving the Harvest- Learn how to water bath can & pressure can
Preserving the Harvest Sharing my Favorite Methods to Preserve the Harvest Now you might be thinking “I don’t grow enough to harvest so why am I looking at this?” BUT let me talk to ya for a minute – You may not be able to or just don’t grow enough to “preserve” or “Put up”…
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Saving for the Future- Creating a Seed Bank- Learn about Seed Saving
Saving for the Future Creating a Seed Bank in order to Save for the Future In today’s post is near and dear to my heart so I’m glad to be sharing with you today. I’m always big on being more self sufficient all while knowing your never truly “self” sufficient and that is ok and…
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How to Grow – Maintain – Harvest – Preserve Dry Beans
How to Grow – Maintain – Harvest – Preserve Dry Beans Growing beans screams “food security” to me and I”m here for it!! Over the last few year’s I’ve been growing and expanding my dry bean knowledge and repertoire. I first started with beautiful kidney beans to make chili with, then I added in black…
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Learn how to Grow, Prune, Harvest, & Use Tomatoes
In the Garden with my Favorite Vegetable err Fruit Tomatoes Today I”ll be sharing with you how I grow Tomatoes, Peppers, Broccoli & Cabbage in my gardens that I’ve been doing for many years and absolutely love. Let’s dig in and grow together! If your interested in learning all things gardening including Seed Starting- Growing- Harvesting –…
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How to Harvest 500 lbs of potatoes!
In the Garden with Root Crops Let’s “Dig” into it shall we? Potatoes – Onions – Garlic Guys, I”ll be straight with ya- these are my favorite to grow, consume and share. Why? They provide so much for us. Nutrients, deliciousness and budget stretching meal friendly items for all the things! I’ll be sharing with…
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Gardening With Kids- We could all be more like them
Gardening with Kids Let’s talk about Gardening with your kids! This is one of my favorite topics to talk about and you may or may not have kids at home or whatever your circumstance is but I think you’ll find a key take away from today’s post. Children are so innocent and interested…
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Introduction to Herbs Part Two
Learning Herbs Part Two Missed Part One- click HERE Let’s continue on shall we in the wonderful world of herbs. There was soooo much information that I wanted to share with you but it can be overwhelming so I had to narrow it down so today let’s talk about…… cold stratifying some of those…
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Introduction to Herbs Part One
Introduction to Herbs This is such a fun and great subject that I was eager to share with you. I’ve been diving into the world of herbs for several years now, creating an herb/cottage garden, reading (I will admit I do NOT like to read, but when it comes to cool stuff like herbs and…
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How to Create a Compost and Use It
Creating A Compost Composting Creating a compost is a great way to improve your garden soil and recycle plant waste. Composting requires very little time and space, and benefits plants, the soil, and the environment by minimizing waste. Put simply, compost is decayed organic matter. Composting can be managed very simply and can involve as…
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Welcome to my Blog- I’ll share with you what our Homestead looks like and how we raise 80% of our food, all organically, sustainably, naturally and beautifully.
I’m hoping to inspire you that you can do this as well! God has provided our family with all the things, but the big thing He has given us is the drive to get ‘er done! We didn’t start out with all this, we started very slow, replacing one thing at a time, learning one thing at a time.