Absolutely nothing beats venison. It’s a goal of ours to harvest our limit of deer every season to fill the freezer to feed our family since we can’t raise many animals for meat (aside from poultry) on our one acre homestead. This gives us a sustainable, healthy, and inexpensive source of meat to feed us…
Pickled Green Tomatoes Two Ways
The weather is getting cooler here and the threat of our first frost is imminent. Which means that there are tons of green tomatoes to pick and figure out what to do with. If you’ve never tried pickled green tomatoes, you are in for a real treat. These pickles are incredibly simple to make. And…
How to Improve Clay Soil
Clay soil is cumbersome for just about any gardener. And it can make your dreams of fresh produce seem impossible. But, with a little bit of work you can improve clay soil and turn it into the well-draining, beautiful loamy soil a gardeners dreams are made of. A lot of us have to deal with…
6 Tips to Avoid Homestead Overwhelm
So many times we start things with the best intentions only to never finish them. To watch them dwindle and rot away like they were meaningless. Even when they weren’t. A lot of times modern homesteading is that way. We start something with the best intentions and then get sucked into modern life and become…
How to Repel Spiders Naturally
I used to be absolutely terrified of spiders. Indoors, outdoors, it didn’t matter, I wanted nothing to do with them. And then we moved out to the country shortly after we were married into a 100 year old farm house. Complete with a potting shed and a neat little garden. And spiders. Lots and lots…
