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Spring Planting in Northern Michigan
What I’m Planting in the Springtime in a Northern Climate This post is brought to you by Azure Standard – Learn how to order HERE – use code “NEW15” if your a new customer with an order of $100 or more! They have plants if you have not started your own yet as well! It’s…
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Consumer or Producer + Full Grow Room Garden Tour
Are you a Consumer or a Producer? PLUS My Full Grow Room (greenhouse) Tour! Let’s take a look inside my grow room where grow all my own seedlings to feed my family & more. Oh yes, I will absolutely admit that I am so fortunate to have a Grow Room. Seriously, who can…
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Benefits of Crop Rotation
Crop Rotation Benefits of Rotating Your Crops Today’s topic discusses the benefits of rotating your crops from year to year in your garden. I will admit I do not put a lot of thought into this nor implement it to much, sometimes with all the information out there it can be overwhelming. What to plant…
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Learning how to Ferment Vegetables- Preserving the Harvest
Preserving the Harvest Sharing my Favorite Methods to Preserve the Harvest- Fermenting Let’s dive into my favorite ways go Preserve the Harvest shall we!?! Fermenting There are many ways to preserve foods, I’m going to cover the basics, include some recipes and get you started! I can’t wait to see how much…
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Learn how to Blanch & Freeze Vegetables
Preserving the Harvest Sharing my Favorite Methods to Preserve the Harvest Blanching & Freezing Vegetables Broccoli – Cauliflower – Cabbage No matter if you have a small garden or a larger garden it’s always great to learn preservation techniques. If you decide to purchase from a farm stand, or local grower, even the grocery store you…
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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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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.