Here's how to make Pickled Eggs - just store them in the fridge. Pickled Eggs Recipe Backstory I love our backyard chickens! They add so much to a homestead and they don't cost a lot to keep. Our chickens help us in lots of ways - we love keeping our chickens busy. And they love to work, fluffing up compost piles and eating weed seeds. Chickens often stop or slow down the egg … [Read more...]
How To Make a Natural Herbal Dewormer
This all natural herbal dewormer will help keep all your animals and livestock healthier. It's great raising livestock...if they are healthy! If you raise cattle for sale and have the grass for them to eat, you can make money while also filling your own freezer with healthy meat. Beginning to raise our own meat was something we started doing the year after we … [Read more...]
Canning Homemade Sauerkraut
Ever wondered how to can sauerkraut so you can enjoy it all winter long? You can easily ferment and can your own sauerkraut in the comfort of your own kitchen! Recently I wrote about our Cabbage harvest and using some of it to make Sauerkraut. Water bath canning Sauerkraut is pretty easy; a beginning canner can preserve cabbage with confidence. What is Sauerkraut? Hailing from … [Read more...]
How I Shop for Groceries – I Don’t Go to Town!
How often do you go food shopping for your family? Once a week? Do you stop by the store a few times a week? Here's how we get our groceries for the week (or two or three) here in our Valley. Come on along with me and see how I shop for groceries without going to town! And I do it all by canning and preserving our own food. How to Shop for Groceries without Leaving Home I have … [Read more...]
How to Grow Your Own Animal Feed
Learn how to grow your own animal feed and save thousands of dollars in feed costs. It would be almost impossible for us to grow 100% of the feed we need for our animals. But we can grow a lot of it - here's how we grow our own animal feed. Since we live in the North, we have a short growing season and a long cold snowy winter. But we do grow what we … [Read more...]
How to Safely Kill Wasps and Hornets
Looking for a way to safely kill wasps? Quite by accident, I found a way to safely kill hornets and wasps. Sure, you can use those spray bombs but even those make us a bit nervous we will get stung by angry wasps. If you do use a spray bomb, make sure to wait until later at night. By then, most, if not all, of the wasps will have returned to the nest for the night. That's the very … [Read more...]
How to Make Rhubarb Wine
If you've got an abundance of Rhubarb, why not get out your wine making equipment? Here's how to make Rhubarb Wine. If you grow a lot of rhubarb, consider making some delicious wine with some of your harvest. It's tasty and easy to make - here's a foolproof rhubarb wine recipe. The middle of June is the ideal time to pick the bulk of your Rhubarb stalks if you live in the North. Want … [Read more...]
How To Get Started on the Path to Providing for Your Family
Have you been used to buying your groceries at the supermarkets? Never raised animals or had a garden? Are you trying to figure out how to get started on the path to providing for your family? Have you thought about starting a homestead? It can certainly feel overwhelming just to get started. So think about getting started, but doing it on a small … [Read more...]