Choosing the best chicken breeds for your climate can be a big decision. Most people are concerned about their egg layers in cold weather, but many chickens actually adapt to cold weather far easier than to hot weather. Just as there are things to do to ensure your flock stays warm in the cold, there …
Fermented tomatoes are a great way to preserve small bits of the abundant crop for snacking, salads, appetizers and more. Making lacto-fermented cherry tomatoes is an easy preservation project that only takes a few minutes to pull together and less than a week to ferment. Cherry tomatoes are a perfect vegetable for fermenting because they …
If you’re a gardener, you need a way to organize and store leftover garden seeds for the next season. Stored properly, most seeds will remain viable for at least a year, some up to four or five years. Here are some simple seed storage solutions and answers to the most common seed storage questions. My …
Make the most of summer’s most amazing delights with these fresh fruit cookies. Use any fresh fruit you have on hand and prefer in this super simple recipe. These also happen to be vinegar cookies. And while it might seem strange, the vinegar helps give the cookies a lightness that can’t be denied and no …
Fermented vegetables are a great and tasty way to preserve the summer harvest. Fermentation recipes are basic and flavorful while also adding a healthy does of probiotics to our preserves and meals. The great thing about learning how to ferment vegetables is that the technique is relatively simple, requiring only water, salt, veggies and time. …
Bath bombs are a fun and luxurious way to end the day. Bath bombs can be expensive and filled with questionable ingredients but when you make homemade bath bombs you can control the cost and the ingredients. Use this easy lavender milk bath bomb recipe as a starting point for making diy bath bombs. Ingredients …
In many climates, strawberries and rhubarb are in season at the same time, which makes this low-sugar strawberry rhubarb jam recipe a great way to preserve the harvest. This small batch recipe is a bit different than other strawberry-rhubarb jam recipes in that we added just a bit of balsamic vinegar that turns this humble …
The summer heat can be just what our gardens need to grow amazing vegetables and herbs. Or it can completely burn up the garden. Here are some tried and true tips for keeping your vegetable and herb garden healthy and growing through the summer heat. Water Deeply Most vegetable plants need an inch of water …
Bake up this easy, old fashioned rhubarb custard pie for the most amazing springtime dessert. This decadent dessert is rich, creamy, and tart and yet incredibly easy to pull together for a pie that is sure to delight and make use of that ever abundant rhubarb. Simple Ingredients One of the best things about this pie …
Wildfire safety and prevention starts at home. Wildfires, started by lighting strikes or man-made, burn on average over 7 million acres in the US annually. While these fires can be scary, there is a lot you can do to protect your home and preventing these fires from even happening. Wildfire Safety Tips Above all, never …