Homesteading | Self Sufficient Living | Living off the Land
When someone offers to send you a whole box of freshly picked Bing cherries? You say yes. Even if canning cherries will add an extra measure of craziness in between back-to-back trips and 4-H events. And that's exactly what happened when Northwest Cherry Growers emailed me and offer to ship me a box of cherries if I'd create a canning recipe featuring them. I've been on a canning kick lately anyway--how could say no? So ...Continue Reading
Early spring harvest... It's almost a non-existent concept for Wyoming peeps like me. Our growing season is short. It starts late and ends early.... which means while everyone else is bragging about their first harvests of greens and radishes, I'm still looking at snow on the ground. And even when the first pictures of ruby red strawberries and cucumbers start flooding social media, my harvest baskets are still empty. But I do have ...Continue Reading
It's mid-May. The grass is green. We had snow last week. The neighbors north of us got four inches of HAIL a couple days ago. And this is totally normal. There's really no sense complaining about it, since that's just how we roll in Wyoming. But hey, I figured this is perfect timing, so let's talk about how you can garden in a cold climate. Because I'm proof that it's possible! (Most years, at least...) Our prairie homestead is in ...Continue Reading
(Photo Credit: Lindsay Linton Buk/Linton Productions) What is up with America's fascination with chicken breasts? If you thumb through most cookbooks or Pinterest, you'd quickly come to the conclusion that that chickens don't even have other edible parts. The vast majority of recipes are suspiciously absent of wings, thighs, or drumsticks in the ingredient lists. Which is all fine and dandy until you start raising your own birds ...Continue Reading
I'm not a mommy blogger. But you probably already knew that, huh? It's partially because I have little interest in telling folks how to raise their kids when I'm still trying to figure out how to raise mine, and partially because my inspiration rarely flows when it comes to that stuff. I've never been one of the cool moms... We don't all have matching outfits for Christmas pix. (Heck, I haven't even done a Christmas CARD in ...Continue Reading
