Think you can't grow fruit because your homestead is too small? Think again! I'm excited to have Lee from Lady Lee's Home sharing her expertise on growing dwarf fruit trees today. Wyoming is generally too cold for fruit, but now even I'm wondering if I can't plant one in a pot and keep it inside! We purchased our house because of the gravel driveway. I know, it sounds silly... You see, it gave me a bit of a country feeling even ...Continue Reading
Archives for November 2015
From Scratch Thanksgiving Menu
There's just something special about the hustle and bustle of a busy kitchen on Thanksgiving morn... It's chaotic and crazy, but it brings back a lot of good memories. Sadly, for most of America, Thanksgiving food = processed food. There's green bean casserole swimming in MSG-laden cream soup, jiggly cranberry jelly from a can, and yams smothered in marshmallows. (By the way, who the heck started the whole marshmallow ...Continue Reading
Raising Meat on a Small Homestead
I have always been a firm believer that you can homestead no matter where you are, whether you have 1 acre or 100 hundred. A smaller homestead may not be able to have all the things, but there are defiantly things you can do to create that sustainable homestead lifestyle. Today I am happy to welcome Heather from The Homesteading Hippy so that she can share her best advice for raising meat on a small homestead. She is proof and the ...Continue Reading
How to Cook a Pastured Turkey
If you want to know how to confuse a homestead kid... Get a turkey from the store. Poor Prairie Girl didn't know what to think when she walked into the kitchen as I was cramming apples and onions into a big ol' raw turkey. "Mommy... WHO is that?!" She had just been outside and knew our big turkey was still strutting around the yard. The little turkeys we had brought home this spring had been eaten by raccoons, so she ...Continue Reading
4 Fast Natural Cough Remedies
Welcome Gwen from Gwen's Nest today as she shares four of her favorite fast and natural cough remedies! I don't know about your house, but around here, if someone is going to come down with a random wracking cough, it's going to be after 10 PM, and likely after the last bit of cough syrup was used up. But that's OK, because one of my favorite things about natural remedies is that many of them use basic things that I already have in ...Continue Reading