An herb garden is a useful thing of beauty around a home. It can add flavor to meals, healing remedies to the medicine cabinet, and provide a home to beneficial insects galore. Plan a most useful herb garden for your home with these guidelines. Planning the Culinary Herb Garden A kitchen herb garden in an …
The foundation of every garden is healthy soil. Healthy soil gives you fruit and vegetables full of nutrients, protects your plants during droughts, and supplies you with a wonderful harvest. But don’t worry. I’m here to teach you how to build healthy soil the easy and cheap way. Yes, there’s still some work involved, but …
You don’t need a lot of property to earn money from your homestead. Start earning a living on your homestead or farm today doing what you already love to do. With more than 50 ideas, there’s something for everyone who wants to start earning money from home. Guest contributor Tammy Trayer of Trayer Wilderness lives …
Flourless peanut butter cookies are the perfect quick and easy sweet treat. They might not be low-carb cookies without gluten but are equally tasty. These require no softening of butter and make use of common pantry ingredients for a delicious dessert. The Simplest Ingredients Sugar, peanut butter, egg, and vanilla extract that’s all that is …
Until the very recently in our history, eating seasonally was pretty much the only way to eat. Today, eating seasonally is seen as trendy and something that is talked about more than actually practiced. However, planning your meals around fruits and vegetables in season is a great way to save money, support your local community, …
Make everyone’s holiday treat baskets extra special by making them holiday cookie recipes in a variety of special flavors designed just for them. Tips for Baking Big Batches Holidays require big batch most of the time. We can do that in such a way as to not make ourselves crazy. Do double or triple recipes …
Longing for a handmade holiday? It’s not as hard or as time-consuming as you might think. Get DIY gift basket ideas and handmade gift ideas for a stress-free holiday season. The winter holiday season is one of my favorite times of the year. I love everything about it; the lights, the parties, the caroling at nursing …
These simple meal prep hacks will help you spend less time in the kitchen and remove the hassle of wondering what’s for dinner. Try a few today and make meal preparation enjoyable. Preparing meals ahead of time means you’re spending a little time when you have it to make sure you’ll have healthy food even …
Try a new recipe during the holidays this year. Who knows, these easy side dishes could start a new family tradition that you’ll want to make all year. Many families have food traditions around the holidays, and it comforts us to bring those traditions forward for the next generations. Often, we find that side dish …
Cranberries are essential to a holiday meal. They are a great accompaniment to turkey, duck, goose, and other fowl, as well as beef or pork roasts. That tang from a side of cranberries cleanses the palette and cuts through the fat. Cooking with fresh cranberries is actually pretty easy, and the end result is a …