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....
Grow your own Tea with these 7 Herbs
One of my major goals for our homestead is to grow my own tea garden. Herbs are such wonderful and easy plants to grow. They are versatile and useful. For uses such as teas, infused water, essential oils, cooking, first aid, the possibilities are endless! Learning...
17 Essential Reasons to Teach Your Children How to Garden
It is no secret that gardening has so many positive benefits and rewards. Gardening is so special because while the ultimate goal is to grow and enjoy whatever vegetable, fruit, flower, or tree has been planted, the entire process provides the gardener with the...
Beautiful Holiday Decor Ideas From Your Backyard
It is Christmas time! My FAVORITE time of the year. Since this is the first year that we are really focusing on our homesteading lifestyle, I thought it would be great to look at what we can find in our backyard to use for decorations. We have a section of evergreens...
13 Gifts Every Gardener and Homesteader Will Love
If you have anyone on your gift list who is an aspiring homesteader or beginner gardener than this is your ultimate gift list. To be honest, this is basically MY wish list. Several items included in the list I already own and use. I wanted to share them with you...
How to Choose the Best Garden Hand Pruner for Any Job
One of the most important and most used tool of a gardener are hand pruners. It is one of those tools that a gardener will have with them every time they head out to the garden. Just about every time I head out to our garden to do something whether it be water,...
Gardening with small children: 6 tips to be successful
Gardens are hard work and are time-consuming. Add a few small children to the mix and you might find that you haven’t had time to look at your garden in days. If you work full-time the weekends are used to catchup on all of the gardening work you didn’t get to...
How we Overcame our Garden’s Top 5 Challenges
The 2018 Gardening season has definitely been a challenging one for us. We planted our biggest garden yet and we expected to have a lot of trial and error with all of the new plants we were experimenting with. We always tend to go overboard in our initial planning (so...