by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | DIY Homesteading
Upcyling around the homestead is a great way to save money and to be kind to the planet around you. As mentioned in our previous post ‘Use What You Have: Upcycling Around the Homestead’, there are a lot of ways to reuse things or find free items around...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | Chickens, Poultry
My chicken house and chicken yard look like a shanty town. I have a slapped together, constantly tinkered with, completely functional and flexible, eyesore of a chicken shack, which also just happens to be way too close to my house. Now this was not my original plan....
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | DIY Homesteading
Nobody can tell anybody else exactly how to start homesteading. Everyone’s situation is different; people live in different areas, have different climates, have a lot of money, are dead broke, hate pigs, you get the idea. So I’m not going to provide you...
by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Fermenting & Cheesemaking, Food Preservation, Our Kitchen, Recipes
My kids are yogurt fiends! I’ve been feeding plain Nancy’s yogurt to the kids since they were little. As they got older I threw in my Homemade Maple Granola and fresh berries, apples, or bananas as well. Now my kids ask for yogurt every weekday morning and...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | DIY Homesteading
I like to try new things every year with gardening and animals such as: new breeds of peas, homemade incubators, different watering systems, places to set my beehive; you get the picture. Tinkering, I like to call it, or some people would call it ‘improving...
by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Baking, Our Kitchen, Recipes, Smoking & Curing
I love smoked food, love it, smoked sausage, salmon, porter, jerky, chowders, pretty much anything. Usually, I like my food to kick me in the face with the smokiness of it, but sometimes subtlety has it’s advantages as well. Last spring, when Jessica was...
