When life gets busy, I tend to take a "triage" approach to homesteading... As much as I'd like to be able to linger for hours in the barn every day piddling around and making sure that everything is done properly, it just doesn't happen all of the time... So, on the crazy days, I usually find myself running (literally...) down to the barn to make sure the animals have some sort of hay in front of them and that no one is dead or ...Continue Reading
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How to be an Apartment Homesteader
One of my favorite things about the modern homesteading movement is that it is flexible. I use to think that the only way a person could ever be considered a farmer or rancher was to have thousands upon thousands of acres and make a full-time living off of their land. But, definitions are changing... In the past, I've talked about the idea of being a modern-day homesteader, no matter where you may live, and in more recent ...Continue Reading
Eggs: To Wash or Not to Wash?
I'm pretty laid-back when it comes to my home-grown foods. I'll eat unwashed veggies from my garden (we're 100% organic, of course), raw milk straight from Oakley the cow, and raw eggs from our chickens. Buuut, some people aren't quite so, shall we say, accepting. And sometimes when you give people a carton of chicken eggs to take home that have bits of shavings and feathers stuck to them, it kinda grosses them out. But no big ...Continue Reading
Homemade Laundry Detergent
Homemade laundry detergent is something that catches everyone's attention-- even if they aren't yet completely sold out to this whole homesteading thing... Things like rendering tallow or making homemade marshmallows can seem a little bit hardcore to the uninitiated, but once you switch the conversation over to homemade laundry soap and explain how much money you can save by making homemade detergent, people are usually all ...Continue Reading
Why I Don’t Clip Coupons
(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