Preserving food

Quick-pickled Red Onions

Crunchy, sour, sweet, and spicy, I love pickles.  Basically, if you can pickle it, I’ll like it.  I must admit,…

1 year ago

Cooking and Fermenting with Juniper Berries

I haven’t met a homesteader who doesn’t enjoy good food but even the best of us can get into a…

1 year ago

Canning Consternation: Overcoming the Fear of Certain Death

As a self-proclaimed Homesteader, I have spent many years learning and researching how to do all manner of things on…

1 year ago

Homemade Applesauce: Accept No Substitutes!

My husband Donnie was raised near the Brushy Mountains of North Carolina, a little set of scenic, high hills in…

2 years ago

Making Your Homestead Pay… You First!

Growing Your Homestead Without Going Into Debt It was June, almost ten bee seasons ago, and Steve and a friend…

2 years ago

How to Live Off Your Garden All Year Round

If you have been gardening for some time, you know how superior the food you grow is compared to store-bought…

2 years ago

Weston A. Price: Introducing the “Real” Way of Eating

Homesteaders often enjoy looking back and learning how the old-timers did things.  We look back at their lives as not…

2 years ago

Equip Your Homestead Kitchen (and then Make Some Tasty Yogurt)

I recently set out to learn how to make yogurt.  In my initial information gathering, two things made an impression…

2 years ago

From Cucina Povera to Conscious Cookery: Timeless Garden-to-Kitchen and Back Again Smarts

Eating in season. Eating locally. They’re not just foodie buzzwords, that’s how our ancestors ate. They had to. There was…

2 years ago

The Beginner’s Guide to Becoming a Homesteader

Returning to the land is a desire that has coursed through the hearts of certain people as long as there…

2 years ago

Slow-Cooker Apple Butter

I decided I’d try something I’ve never attempted before and make some fresh apple butter for this week's recipe. And,…

3 years ago

Growing Horseradish on the Homestead

An Alternative Crop for Your Homestead Growing horseradish on your homestead offers several benefits.  First, it is a perennial, which…

3 years ago