Homesteading | Self Sufficient Living | Living off the Land
Knowing how to grow sprouts at home is a simple skill that everyone should have in their arsenal. Gardening is therapy for me. But I get it that many folks can't have a big garden. Heck, I know Jill has a love/hate relationship with gardening in the wacky Wyoming weather, and I get it if gardening isn't your "thing" at all. But today we're talking about how you can do some very easy, unbelievably productive "gardening" right on ...Continue Reading
This Ultimate Guide to Canning Safety covers important issues for everyone who is home-canning. Learn necessary tips about botulism concerns, which foods can safely be canned, which foods should NOT be canned, dangerous canning methods that should be avoided at all costs, and more. Yep. I'm going there. I know it'll make some people mad. But we need to have a chat about this, my friend. CANNING SAFETY. I keep running ...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
The air was so brisk this morning, I promptly went back inside and changed from shorts into jeans. And so it begins... Summer is rapidly fading and I've got to face the facts: it's time to prepare the garden for winter. Honestly, this year my garden seemed to miss the memo altogether that it was summer, with still-green tomatoes and very few crops in sight come August. Mind you, a summer hail storm probably had something to do ...Continue Reading
I've never met a potato I didn't like. I'd eat them for every meal if I could, and I usually have to force myself to think of alternative side dishes, because in my world, potatoes go with everything. (This may have to do with the fact I grew up in Idaho? I can't help myself.) Therefore, it's only logical they'd be one of my most-favorite things to grow in the garden. I get all-sorts of giddy when I'm pulling pounds and pounds of ...Continue Reading
