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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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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Save your garden potatoes in a smaller space! Here’s how you can make your own dehydrated potato flakes from scratch! Buying boxed potato flakes for quick and easy mashed potatoes may seem like a great idea most of the time, right? There are some weird ingredients in the most popular brands that I want to avoid,
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Got a mountain man with a full beard and/or mustache? Try this beard oil to soften and tame the hair that can so often be unruly. Google “beard oil” and you are sure to get 1,000,000 different recipes. Each one is unique and has a different variety of oils used in it to obtain different
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A chicken tractor is a mobile coop that you can move around easily in your yard. It is called a “tractor” because the scratching and pecking motions of the birds can loosen the top inch of soil and help remove weeds. For some of you newer to homesteading, it’s hard to imagine how one might
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Need pain relief in a hurry? Try this pain relief oil to help soothe those tired, achy muscles and joints. Stooping over to weed the garden. Cleaning out the chicken coop. Planting, harvesting, canning. All these things can lead to muscle pain. Severe muscle pain. When you pull a muscle or overwork it, you want
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