The BIG New Thing Coming to our Garden in Spring 2024- & how you can do it too
5 of The Best Skills to Learn on Your Homestead this Year- Homesteading Skills
Right now we are just a few hours away from the New Year- when this post comes out we will be a few days into the new year. For most of us a new year is a new opportunity to…
Experimental Gardening 2024
Water Bath Canning For Beginners
Are you ready to start canning and preserving your food this year? But maybe you don’t know where to start. What do you need to water bath can? What’s the difference between pressure and water bath canning? Where should you…
5 Off Grid Gift Ideas for Your Self Sufficient Friends
It is Christmas time again in just a few short months. Each year we try so hard to be extremely intentional with our gift giving which can be hard if you know your friends interests or not. Lots of the…
5 Quality Christian Books to Read this Fall
Autumn is this week, by the time you read this it will be Fall. As a Christian Fall reminds us to slow down, to rest, to be comforted. It’s a time to slow down. It’s also a time of extreme…
5 Ways to Homestead on a Budget
We all see the beautiful homesteads on Instagram and often feel our grasp on that lifestyle slipping away. Beautiful cream metal raised beds, a rock pathway to a large gated garden. Greenhouses filled with the newest pots and tools for…
How to Make Kombucha for Beginners
Do you want to learn how to make kombucha? Lots of people are trying to learn how to make their favorite drinks and snacks at home and kombucha is one of them. It is far easier to make than you…
5 Useful Homesteading Skills to Learn During Fall & Winter
Summer is closing down for most of us. We are in the end stages of harvest and beginning stages of preserve, prepare and cozy up for the Fall and Winter. Sometimes when all of our dedication has gone to Summer…
Seven Slow Living Activities for Fall
It’s August, which is the month that begins the transition to Fall. Summer can be so busy as adults. Gardening, market, preserving, lake days, jobs, the whole season is a lot of work as an adult! Especially as a homesteader….