Tag archives for Homesteading
Keeping your Home from Smelling like the Barn Using Essential Oils
Something I have found, since getting animals last Spring, is the house just isn't always fresh. I want my house to smell like a home, not a barn. When you…
Gift ideas for your Favorite Homesteader
After living on 5 acres for 15 years and now back on an acre an hour south of Nashville, I decided to put a list together of some of my…
10 Things You’ll Miss Most about your Home
What are 10 Things you Will Miss about your Home? This is what the photographer asked us when making the appointment to come take pictures of our house. "When taking…
How to Render Pig Fat
How to render pig fat for homemade lard you ask? You didn't ask? Let me share anyway because you never know when you will need to. Wilbur and Mabel lived…
Eggs-actly What to do with all of those Easter Eggs
Easter is less than a week away. Usually with Easter comes eggs. Hardboiled to make deviled eggs. Maybe your family dyes eggs. Regardless they are popular this time of year.…
Raising Chickens 101
RASING CHICKENS 101 So you want to raise chickens. Here are a few tips to get you started. Then go over to my post about the 5 Things…
5 Things I didn’t Know Until I got Dairy Goats
We learned a lot from having dairy goats. We learned they weren't for us after about 18 months. They are Stubborn Goats are incredibly stubborn. This last fall, Jazz, our…
City Girl to Country Girl
A week doesn't go by that I don't say to myself "Twelve years ago I never would " Usually it is something along the lines of "Twelve years ago I…
When Homesteading isn’t Glamorous
This homesteading thing. The glory of being self sufficient. It is not for the faint of heart. My friend put it like this: "Everyone loves spring and the new life…
Building a Greenhouse
The Principal and the kids built me a Greenhouse. This is homeschooling at it's finest. Math. PE Quality time. (Ok this isn't a class, but still good for the soul)…