Cooking with essential oils is a smoking hot topic! Whether you choose to use essential oils in your kitchen is a personal decision. These reasons for not cooking with essential oils are simply the why to the how I season food in my farmstead kitchen. This topic has been on my mind the last few weeks….
It’s not long after you start your new life on the homestead before you may find yourself thinking, “How can I earn money homesteading?” After all, getting started homesteading isn’t free (or cheap) contrary to popular opinion. And if you don’t put down roots and end up succumbing to “land lust” (Look at what all…
Many of us homesteaders want to grow as much of our own vegetables as possible. We want to eat fresh AND have enough produce left over to can some to take us through the long winter months. Obviously, the best way to have enough food to can is to grow more vegetables! Simple, right? But…
It’s always a challenge to know exactly when to plant vegetable and herb seeds in the garden. Whether you start your seeds indoors or outdoors, knowing the right time to plant is a crucial part of learning how to grow vegetables and herbs from seed. Using a customized seed sowing schedule can help you know…
What can I say? I really don’t like canning. I’ve always looked on canning the food we grow as a necessary evil. Canning is NOT my jam. Thankfully, there are 6 Less-Work Food Preservation Methods I can resort to for most of the food we grow in the garden. As much as I always love seeing…
I love good problems. And having extra milk on the homestead is definitely a good problem! With some thought and careful management, you can use every last drop and learn ways to use extra milk! Our Jersey cow Holly recently had a calf and if you follow us on facebook, you will have seen that…