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As the pendulum swings from summer to fall…. (new recipe + videos)
As the pendulum swings from summer to fall can you feel the difference? Do you feel the pull between long summer days full of sunshine, exhaustion and fun to the slower cooler days of fall? I know I certainly do! Trying to fit in those summer activities, enjoy the dwindling bright sun, harvesting and preserving…
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Taking Care From the Outside In
Did you know that your skin is your largest organ? Have you ever thought about all the products that goes on our skin and how our largest organ absorbs those ingredients? Ya know the lotions, sun screen, makeup, ointments, rubs, and the list goes on and on. You might be slathering your skin (largest organ…
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Beans- The Musical Fruit – Why YOU Need to Be Planting Them Every Year
Beans- The Musical Fruit – Why YOU Need to Be Planting Them Every Year Beans Beans the Musical Fruit- The More You Eat the More You Toot! Below you’ll find out Why Plant My Favorites Seed Saving How to Grow & Setup Dry Beans Growing Several Videos How to Pressure Can the Beans…
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Creating an Apothecary – Tour of my NEW setup + Herbal Medicine
Creating an Apothecary – Tour of my NEW setup + Herbal Medicine See below for my full tour! But 1st….. Come check out my new setup of my Apothecary – there’s been an upgrade to what you last seen before at https://youtu.be/SzeRhvyqdjE a year and a half a go. But you gotta start somewhere…
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Let’s Harvest Broccoli & Cauliflower together shall we
Let’s Harvest Broccoli & Cauliflower Together Shall We Yay finally getting some goodies from the back garden (aka shade garden) so join me as I show you how and what to harvest. So when is the perfect time? When the buds are tight and right before they start to open up. After you let…
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The Herbs are Rollin in’! Grab my Freebies + Resources
The Herbs are Rollin in’! Grab my Freebies + Resources The Herbs are Here, the Herbs are Here!! Yay summertime those healing herbs are here and I’m here for it. Boy I just used the word “here” a lot didn’t I? Well I am that excited because it’s time to restock the Apothecary! I’ve gone…
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Garden Maintenance – Midway Through the Growing Season
Garden Maintenance – Midway Through the Growing Season Here is a tour of my Front Garden (this one get’s all the sun) where I’ll show you what’s going on, how I’m handling issues and maintaining the garden. This garden was planted about 6 weeks prior to this video, we are in between the planting and…
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Launch of Piggy Soap!
The Soap is Here, The Soap Is Here!! Get ready to enjoy a rich lather soap made with 100% all natural ingredients Each bar is carefully crafted using lard (no you won’t smell like a pig) that I’ve rendered here on the homestead from our amazing Pigs that we raised on OUR land where we…
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How to help your Herbs, Lettuce & Spinach Types BEAT THE HEAT
How to help your Herbs, Lettuce & Spinach Types BEAT THE HEAT It’s a scorcher out there folks and in order to maximize our hard work of planting all those lovely seeds here are some of my tips to help Beat the Heat! Hey Friends- it’s hot out there and we need to save our…
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This breaks my heart
This breaks my heart As I’m writing this blog post my sprinkler is running in the main garden to reach the plants that I was unable to cover. Frost. The 5 letter word that gardeners shudder at. I pride myself of knowing a lot of gardening stuff and teaching others gardening however nature can out…
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- As the pendulum swings from summer to fall…. (new recipe + videos)
- Dinner – Done in less than a half hour- Lots of Noodle Recipes
- It’s NOT time to give up now! Lessons learned. Can you relate? (Garden + Life)
- Taking Care From the Outside In
- Beans- The Musical Fruit – Why YOU Need to Be Planting Them Every Year
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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.