Do you dream of harvesting bushels of ripe fruit from your homestead? Crunching on apples and nibbling on sun-ripened plums? Because fruit trees are a perennial planting - a gift of food that keeps on giving - they are an extremely valuable asset to your homestead. And as the old proverb goes,“The ...
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How to Select Fruit Trees for Your Homestead
Acorn Pancake Recipe and How to Process Acorns for Eating
If you are serious about foraging for wild edibles, you've probably wondered how to add more starch, fats, and proteins to your foraged diet. After all, berries and wild greens are delicious, but they don't fill your belly.
Acorns and other wild nuts and seeds can help round out your foraged diet ...
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Building a Yurt for our Off the Grid Homestead in Vermont
After months of dreaming and preparing, a group of friends joined us in building a 25 foot yurt for our off the grid homestead!
It must have been 6 or so years ago that we met Ken of Two Girls Farm and Yurts. At the time we were living in Missouri and neither planning to live in a yurt, nor to ...
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Wild Ramp Pesto Recipe
One of the most revered spring wild edibles is the wild ramp, Allium tricoccum, a North American member of the garlic/onion family that is found the eastern United States and eastern Canada. A truly seasonal delight, one of the easiest ways to preserve ramps is to make a wild ramp pesto. I'll share ...
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