How to make easy and delicious recipes on your homestead, out of basic ingredients. These are obviously much healthier than what you can buy from the store, even healthier than what you would order in most restaurants.
They can be really fun, too, not to mention cheap compared to eating out.
Get more milk than you can handle from your cows? Don’t let it go to waste, learn how to powder it yourself. This simple act of preserving milk often needlessly intimidates folks who have never seen it done before. Powdering milk is yet another way to preserve the milk garnered on your homestead. It is … Read more
Eating wild never tasted so good! If you love spinach, you will love stinging nettles. Even if you hate spinach, like I do, you’ll probably still really enjoy cooking and baking with the foraged medicinal weed! Stinging nettles boast a decidedly nut and spinach taste, but not to an overwhelming degree. They are poisonous to … Read more
Beets are delicious, beautiful, and great for you. They give you a strong dose of B vitamins, iron, manganese, copper, magnesium and potassium. They also have compounds that are beneficial to your circulation, stamina, liver, and a lot more. To top it all off, they have plenty of fiber to keep you regular. Beets store … Read more
Coffee, the bitter nectar of life, the breakfast of champions, the fuel that sustains parents everywhere. It really is one of the best parts of life. There’s a specialty coffee beverage for every season, and there’s nothing like wrapping your hands around a hot mug, snuggled up in the middle of winter. Coffee does more … Read more
Energy drinks are a wonderful thing to have on hand in your pantry, bug out bag, or even first aid kit. There’s a reason everyone from elite athletes to 8-year-old soccer players relies upon energy drinks and electrolyte drinks for vitality, energy, or replenishing nutrients lost while sweating. These days, there are a ton of … Read more
Raw feeding for cats and dogs is becoming increasingly popular, and for good reason. With commercial cat food containing everything from indigestible grains to contaminated ingredients to harmful additives, a raw, species-appropriate diet is really the best way forward. Cats are omnivores, which means that they can and should be eating meat. However, not only … Read more
Kefir is a fermented, cultured milk product that is packed with a wide range of probiotics and yeast, similar to yogurt. This guide will teach you all you need to know about making your own delicious kefir milk at home. Kefir has been around for centuries, and while nobody knows exactly how or where it … Read more
I’ll share with you my favorite way to marinade venison to make delicious deer jerky. You’ll love how simple and easy it is!
Yes, there is actually more you can do with those decorative Fall pumpkins than just use them as a center piece! Cook and puree them for fresh pumpkin bread and pies year round!
Here’s a good variety of soups you can make using only shelf stable ingredients, for those times when you might not be able to get to the store.
A delicious, refreshing ice tea made from fresh peppermint and fresh stevia leaves. Gotta love homemade!
It’s the only way I’ll make cabbage!! So simple, and SO good!
A delicious way to use purslane, a nutritious, edible weed you might have growing in your garden!
Here’s a fun project to do with the kids. And you won’t have to worry about what’s in this gum!
Make homemade yogurt from store bought milk with NO yogurt maker!! And save a ton of money.
Save that little bit of leftover oatmeal to make delicious muffins, cookies, cakes, bread, smoothies and more!