While I love to use my dehydrator for preserving food, I can't even begin to claim to be an expert. If you're anything like me, you never really venture beyond the very basics. Well my friend, that's about to change. On this podcast episode, I'm joined by my good friend Jessica Spiers. Listen as Jessica lays out all the necessities when it comes to dehydration. Discover the best foods to dehydrate, how you can dehydrate ...Continue Reading
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3. Why We Chose to Garden in Raised Beds
Have you ever wondered if raised beds were the answer to your garden issues? When Christian and I started our first garden on our homestead, we began with a traditional in-ground garden. After a somewhat comical mistake involving manure, we quickly had a yard growing in our garden. Certainly not an ideal situation. Though a temporary solution worked for a while, we discovered a deeper issue as a ...Continue Reading
20 Ways to Use Sour Raw Milk
I wasn't very far into my real food journey the first time I heard the term "clabber." My initial thought was, "What the heck is that?" So I promptly headed to Google to check it out. It's amazing how something that was so common a hundred years ago is so unheard of today... Clabber is basically thickened sour, raw milk. Part of the reason that we don't use the term anymore is because store-bought, pasteurized milk ...Continue Reading
How to Be a Semi-Rural Homesteader
I have always believed that homesteading is a state of mind and that is possible to homestead no matter where you are. This is why I have truly enjoyed writing the "How to homestead no matter where you are series". In this series, I have talked about how to turn your apartment and your suburban backyard into functional modern homesteads. Today you will be reading about how you can become a semi-rural homesteader. What is a ...Continue Reading
How to Save Tomato Seeds
Confession: Until very recently, I've never really had any interest in saving seeds from my garden. A homesteading lifestyle is about being self-sufficient and having independence, so you would think that saving seeds would be a common activity by all of us. The truth is, however, that until recent years when seeds were scarce (aka the 2020 Seed Shortage), it hasn’t really been taken very seriously by many gardeners and ...Continue Reading
