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Tomatoes & Cheesy Orzo + New Recipe Alert!
Tomatoes & Cheesy Orzo <- New Recipe Alert! It’s June!! It’s finally time for the warm weather crops to be put in up here in Northern Michigan. I’ve been diligently watching the weather to make sure to stear clear of the frost and tonight is the last night (err did I just jinx myself) that could…
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Short & Sweet – Homemade Dandelion Shortbread Cookies
Short & Sweet – Homemade Dandelion Shortbread Cookies Literally- these Dandelion Shortbread Cookies are deliciously wonderful!  Right now, go grab 2 sticks of butter and place on the counter to start warming up to room temperature. No seriously go, come back and get the recipe for this sweet treat using Dandelions! (Recipe & Video below!!) Important Note: Do…
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Healthy Chicken Nuggets +Â Homemade French Fries + Homemade Refried Beans
Healthy Chicken Nuggets + Homemade French Fries + Homemade Refried Beans How is your May going? Any plans for gardening this year?  The weather has been nice but not oh crap it’s 90 and everything must be planted right now kinda weather. So we’ve been taking it slow, like preparing the gardens, weeding in the herb…
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Screw It – I’m Gardening
(herb garden) Screw it I’m gardening! I think I spoke to soon on a previous blog post- spring came…and then went and Winter came back again! We just received 6 inches of a white blanket in the form of snow! I know, it’s renewing the earth…putting water into the ground…yes all good stuff I get…
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Spring brings such hope in all things
(herb garden) Starting New Spring brings such hope in all things. Our weather FINALLY broke this week and we are able to get outside and actually see the ground. You can feel the excitement in the air with the sun shining, the birds singing and the dirt just calling my name. And oh yes it…
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Starting Maple Syrup- Meat Rub & DIY Taco Seasoning
Maple Syrup- Rub’s- Taco Seasoning Let’s continue the talk on Maple Syrup! Boy is it delicious, nothing like wood smoked maple syrup hot outta the pan! My husband has been enjoying this very much. It combines some of his favorite things- tree’s and fire! He’s built a really great fire pit thingy (that’s the technical…
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Starting Your Seeds Indoors – Building a Trellis in the Garden – What to do with Lard
Starting Your Seeds Indoors – Building a Trellis in the Garden – What to do with Lard Oh yes I feel the garden calling my name even though we just got another layer of snow with…more coming….again. Yes that photo is from this morning! Here in zone 4b we still got a bit to go.…
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How we raise our baby chickens + Videos
All About the Chickens Black Jersey Giant & Pheasant We are talking chicken today!!! I have uploaded several resources to help you along with your Food Prood journey. And one being- how to cook a whole chicken (preferably organic, we are prood’s right?) When we started raising and processing our own chickens we left them whole, so…
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Back from Vacation – Cookies – Creamy Pasta
Back from Vacation – Cookies – Creamy Pasta Family Vacay complete! We went from very cold and lots of snow in Northern Michigan to Panama City Beach for a week on the beach. The weather was warmer than normal, and don’t slap me, but it was hot! Lots of Portuguese man o wars were washed up…
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Carnita’s – Gardening Worksheets -Bagels & More
Carnita’s – Gardening Worksheets -Bagels & More This is an exciting day I have so much to share with you! I’ve been working really hard getting lots of new stuff up on the website this past week. Several gardening worksheets, my favorite recipe and several amazing Sourdough recipes. Have you started your sourdough yet? If…
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- Chasing Fall Colors + New Recipes + New Videos
- Learn how to Seed Save from Cucumbers – Fermentation Style Seed Saving
- There’s only 3, ONLY 3! The bottom dropped out
- A tour of my nitrogen jungle, aka back garden- come check it out with me!
- People are always asking….what do I actually buy from the stores? pt 1
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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.