Don’t just freeze your garden cauliflower! Try making your own instant fauxtatoes for pantry storage! Have I got the most awesome idea of all for you! Make your own instant fauxtatoes flakes! These are super duper easy to do, and will store in your pantry indefinitely! Great for a bug out bag as well, since […]
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Are you looking forward to having the best garden ever this year? You need to do some prepwork in order to get there. Fortunately, getting ready for a garden isn’t hard at all. You just need to put a bit of thought into it and plan ahead BEFORE you get lost in those colorful seed
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Breakfast is an important meal. It can set the tone for the day, whether you have the energy to chase the chickens back into the coop, or not. Giving up weeding the garden because you have zero energy isn’t good, either. It’s important to get fueled up each day. On the homestead, there isn’t always
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Baking treats, muffins, quick breads and more just got taken up a notch with this homemade vanilla sugar. This sugar is perfect for adding just a touch of vanilla flavor, and is great for when you don’t have any extract on hand. It’s also great for sweetening tea, coffee, kombucha and other beverages. Vanilla sugar
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Photo by J&J Acres With the summer heat in full force in our hemisphere, many of us are also turning up the water spigot. After all, plants need water, and the hot sun makes it evaporate! So the logic is to water, and water often. That may help your plants make it through the heat,
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I love baking homemade bread, even in the hottest of summer. The smell of homemade bread is out of this world, and the taste so perfect. My family can literally gobble down a whole loaf before it’s been completely cooled! With some butter and jam, this is the perfect treat! Making it yourself costs about
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Chickens are a rather low maintenance animal, in my opinion. Caring for them in the winter doesn’t require much effort, just a little foresight. Chickens need water in the winter. You will want to keep it from freezing as much as possible. Amazon, sells these really cool heated waterers that work great. Otherwise, you could
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Rice is one of the many staples in our home. We eat it 2-3 times a week, and we love brown, white, jasmine, and arborio especially. Most people will tell you that rice is great for food storage, especially white, due to it’s long storage life, and I would have to completely agree. It’s fairly
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I am a firm believer in “what goes in, must come out”. This is especially for our bodies and the food we eat. If you eat a crummy diet of processed foods, drink lots of sugary sodas, and don’t get enough rest or exercise, your body is going to show it. You’re going to be
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Dealing with a magnesium deficiency can be hard… but you can help supplement this vital nutrient with homemade magnesium lotion. Do you have low magnesium symptoms? Would you know if you have a magnesium deficiency? Low magnesium symptoms can be: All of those magnesium deficiency symptoms were right up my alley. I had them. Big time. I
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