It's either feast or famine when it comes to eggs around our homestead... After the long, egg-less wait while our chicks matured, we are currently slammed with eggs. Blue ones, brown ones, little ones, big ones, double yolkers... Eggs everywhere. (Want some egg recipes? Check out my post of 50+ egg-heavy recipes here) But eventually our chickens will molt and we will be hard pressed to find enough eggs to make breakfast on a ...Continue Reading
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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
How to Make Peach Pie Filling for the Freezer
The Great Dilemma: You are asked to bring a dessert to a potluck, BBQ, or dinner party. Do you stick to your real food convictions and bring something "healthy", or cave in and bring a standard dessert loaded with white sugar...? I will confess that I've done both. Depending on the crowd, sometimes it's not worth it to use all my expensive, healthy sweeteners when they won't eat it anyway. Thankfully, fruit pies are a great ...Continue Reading
Don’t Take it for Granted: Raising Rural Kids
Life is all about routine, and it seems that the more often you do something, the more you (unintentionally) take it for granted. Right now, my routine consists of making a home and the endless amount of chores that come with running a homestead. As a result, Prairie Baby spends a LOT of time outside with me. Sure, I could wait to do all my chores until naptime, but I usually can't fit them all into those precious few hours. And, ...Continue Reading
Homemade Fly Spray Recipe
Learn how to make your own homemade fly spray recipe. This is a wonderful natural fly spray that will help prevent flies around your homestead and while you work with your livestock. You can relax knowing that it's made with natural and safe ingredients instead of unknown chemicals. You know how in the book of Exodus, one of the ten plagues was massive amounts of flies? When I was younger, I always thought "Well, that one ...Continue Reading