Homesteading | Self Sufficient Living | Living off the Land
(Photo Source) Back when I started the transition from a workin' girl to a stay at home mama, I spent a considerable amount of time online checking out various homemaking blogs. A common theme I found among them was that many of the moms were coupon queens. They would spend mere pennies and come home with bagfuls of food and toiletries. Oftentimes, the items would end up being completely free! This totally appealed to my frugal ...Continue Reading
It's funny to think that merely 2 years ago, I didn't even know what cheesecloth was, let alone have a need for it. However, now that my kitchen has been transformed into a real food workshop, I find myself needing all sorts of "weird" items. Cheesecloth has many uses. Most commonly it's used in various forms of cheesemaking (duh), but it also works great as a strainer for broth, jellies, or soft cheeses like yogurt or kefir ...Continue Reading
It took me an eternity... ...To to find a pizza crust recipe we really liked. So many of the other pizza dough recipes I tried were too dry, or too crumbly, or lacked that perfect chewiness we craved. I'm pretty sure angels sang when I made this dough recipe for the first time. It's so perfect we don't even miss restaurant pizza anymore, (which is a good thing when you live 40 miles from town...) I make pizza dough recipe with a ...Continue Reading
Ok, ok, I know that some of you may be getting tired of talking about milking and dairy animals. I promise, we'll get back to our regularly scheduled programming soon. BUT, since we just started up our goat milking again for the year I seriously have raw milk on the brain! So, bear with me just a little while longer. ;) Today, I'm excited to share a free printable milk record sheet that hopefully will help to organize things around ...Continue Reading
We don't really have a lawn. It's more of a lumpy patch of clumpy prairie grass that I faithfully push the mower over every summer. We've definitely improved it by mowing and raking out the dead matter, but it's a far cry from the lush, green carpets that you see in town. Not that I really care, because even if I did have a lush, green carpet, the dogs would dig it up, the goats would eat it, and my lack of willingness to ...Continue Reading
