by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | Baking, Our Kitchen
One of my cooking goals in life, yes I have cooking goals, is to make excellent biscuits. I found that the easiest way to acquire good recipes is to eat other people’s cooking and if you like it, ask for the recipe. People never say no. I attained this recipe...
by Jessica | Last Updated: Mar 5, 2018 | Gardening
The very first vegetable (or fruit) I grew was a cherry tomato plant, a hybrid sweet 100, that I came across while was perusing the end-of-spring garden tables at our local hardware store. I planted it against a sunny south side wall of our house in Portland, Oregon....
by Jessica | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | Animals, DIY Homesteading, Gardening
This blog is our way of sharing wisdom and the things we have learned about homesteading, if I was being completely honest it should be called ‘101 Mistakes and How Not to Make Them in Homesteading’.  About 10 years ago my family and I found this...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | DIY Homesteading, Food Preservation & Storage, Smoking & Curing
I am a big fan of smoked foods and I have never found a food that didn’t taste better with a little smoke added! At first, I found it very intimidating to start smoking my own food, and then it turned out to be very easy because you don’t need fancy...
by Jessica | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | Canning & Pickling, Our Kitchen
Bone broth can be from any animal, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, lamb, beef, moose and on and on. If you don’t raise your own animals or hunt that’s okay because your local butcher shop will sell them to you very cheaply. Making a good bone broth is a...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | Daily Life, DIY Homesteading, Our Kitchen
For many people, preparing food at home results in vegetables scraps and food that are not worthy of human consumption and are often thrown into the garbage. On our homestead, you might as well be throwing away money. According to the Washington Post, American...
