Homesteading | Self Sufficient Living | Living off the Land
I may have harvested a lifetime supply of sunflower seeds. For some reason, the sunflowers grew like gangbusters this year, even while everything else struggled. (Funny story: all of my sunflowers were volunteers this year, and when they first popped up, I thought they were bean plants... so I transplanted them into a nice little square in one of my beds, and then was promptly embarrassed when I realized I'd planted 9 sunflowers ...Continue Reading
Some folks like a little fruit with their sugar. I'm not one of them. I mean if I'm going to the trouble of canning good food for my family, I'd rather it be good food, not half fruit, half refined sugar, right? I recently shared how I can cherries with honey and how I can apple slices, and today I'm super excited that my friend, and a member of The Prairie Homestead Team, Michelle Visser, agreed to share her amazing recipe for ...Continue Reading
I don't know why homesteading makes me so impulsive... Whether we're talking about my propensity to impulse-buy farm animals, or my tendency to fire up a canning project in the middle of a busy morning when I have no business standing there peeling peaches, I guess I just have to blame it on my passion for this lifestyle. This week (like literally this week-- just a few days ago!) I decided to do a 180-degree flip on my garden plans ...Continue Reading
My kitchen currently resembles the laboratory of a mad scientist. There's my sourdough starter bubbling away by the oven, a container of continuous brew kombucha doing it's thing on the island, and a 2-gallon crock of sauerkraut fermenting away in the corner. I've come a long way, considering I used to be scared of fermented foods. Both the sights and smells of fermenting foods turned me off for years, not to mention the worry it ...Continue Reading
I’m not one to exaggerate. When I say we have a super short growing season here in Wyoming, you know I mean it. In fact, I’m just sitting over here hoping I'll be lucky enough for just a few of the tomatoes turn red before the first frost this year. (Side note: Don’t worry, I never waste a green tomato. Even if none ripen before our first frost hits, I’ll pick them green and ripen them indoors. Here's how I save and ripen my green ...Continue Reading
