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3 Tips to Help You Start Cooking From Scratch Today
While cooking from scratch is a satisfying endeavor, it can certainly feel intimidating and time consuming if you are not prepared. However, preparing yourself to make homecooked meals using scratch ingredients is something that anyone can learn and will find that it...
How to Make Beautyberry Jelly
If you have ever seen a beauty berry bush in full bloom, you would certainly understand how this amazing bush got it’s name. It is absolutely beautiful when it is at the peak of it’s season. The Beauty Berry bush is a deciduous shrub that has green leaves that grow...
Ways to Enjoy a Peach Harvest
We love peaches here. My kids love to eat them in fruit cups, my husband loves peach cobbler, and we all really love to just each them whole. Sometimes I serve plain, fresh peaches for dessert and they are delicious. There are many ways to use a peach harvest so...
How to Make Candied Jalapenos
My family loves Jalapenos, we use them on so many things. We typically have tacos or nachos at least once a week and we go through tons of jalapenos because of it.This year we had 3 jalapeno plants that produced SO many beautiful jalapenos. I typically make a batch...
4 Common Watering Mistakes to Avoid
Making sure that your garden routinely gets a sufficient amount of water every week is one of the most important tasks for a gardener. Even though the concept of creating a watering routine seems obvious and easy, there are many different ways to manage the watering...
6 Vegetables to Plant in August for a Fall Garden
Many beginner gardens are so accustomed to starting a garden in April or May each year. However, mid-August is also another great time to plant and start a fall garden. There are so many fall garden vegetables that you can plant in August for a fall garden and get a...
6 Reasons to Start Homesteading Today
It is funny to be how some people believe that homesteading requires you to buy a farm, move to the mountains of Tennessee and live off the grid. While that is one form of homesteading, and sounds pretty awesome to me, this is not what homesteading looks like for...
How to Make Wineberry Vinegar
One of the things that really excites me about June/July is how alive our homestead becomes. Not only because of all of the vegetables and fruit that we cultivate ourselves on the property, but also because of the wild wineberries that grow all over our homestead....
Garden Progress 6/28/19
Our garden is really growing great! I LOVE the part of the growing where everything seems to double in size every week, it is just give me such a sense of progress and forward movement. I can't get too comfortable though because before I know it I will have more...
Garden Update 6/3/2019
Do you feel like you are behind with your garden this year? If so, you are certainly not alone, this is a feeling I have been struggling with lately. I can’t help but feel like I am already behind and our plants are just getting started. I feel like this is pretty...