Homesteading | Self Sufficient Living | Living off the Land
The Four Seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, and PUMPKIN. It's that time of year, where no matter what you are trying to buy, there is pumpkin-flavored something staring you in the face. Pumpkin candles, coffee, soap, bread, muffins, chewing gum, laundry detergent... OK, maybe not those last two, but you get the idea... Let's be honest, when the pumpkin-craze hits, we're really just trying to imitate one thing: The ...Continue Reading
By Renee Kohley, contributing writer Apple season is my favorite way to transition into fall, and apple recipes make it even better. We are literally surrounded by orchards to pick from, and always feel so blessed to bring home haul after haul, picking 2-3 times during the month of October. I always end up breaking up our apple picking in shifts. It gives me time to plow through whatever needs to be done with them. I am still ...Continue Reading
I don't claim to have much of a green thumb... But I can grow a mean patch of pumpkins. Okay... Okay. Pumpkins are pretty easy to grow, so don't be too impressed...But still... I'm going to take full advantage of my bragging rights. This year I poked a handful of heirloom pumpkin seeds into my hugelkultur bed, just to see what would happen. (If you're wondering "hugel-whaaaa??" then read this post). Last year, my maiden voyage as ...Continue Reading
I kicked my candles to the curb. And I was quite the candle addict... So that's saying a lot. There's nothing I love more than being enveloped by a warm, spicy scent when I walking into the house on a brisk, fall day. And who doesn't love the flickering of a candle on a cozy winter's night? But once I started learning about some of the toxic junk my candle addiction was releasing into my house, suddenly my "warm sugar cookie" ...Continue Reading
The cravings started earlier than normal this year... I'm blaming it on our cooler-than-normal summer, and our early snow (YES, it snowed two weeks ago... *facepalm*), but I'm already hankering for sweaters, and fires in the stove, and chai tea. Especially the chai. I'm kind of a picky chai drinker... The chai tea bags you can grab in the tea aisle don't quite cut it for me. And the pre-made concentrates are often filled with ...Continue Reading
