One of the best ways to make your homesteading dreams happen to is have a solid, yet realistic plan for how to achieve your homesteading goals. In my own life, I break my to-do list into three parts: Business, Homeschooling, and Homesteading. Making a commitment to my goals means not only that I get ...
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Top Homesteading and Off the Grid Posts of 2016
Each year I dive into my blog's statistics to find the top homesteading and off the grid posts of the year. Not surprisingly, these are the posts that focus on what I love to write about most: Homesteading, gardening, off the grid living, food, and finances. I share them in one place at the end of ...
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How to Preserve Beet Greens
Beet greens are edible and extremely delicious and nutritious. There are many ways to cook them, but if you find yourself with an abundance of beets to pull at once you might be wondering what on earth to do with all of their greens. Learn how to preserve beet greens by freezing them!
With a ...
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Foraging for Autumn Olives
An annual Fall tradition in our community is foraging for Autumn olives. From late September through October, the bushes of Elaeagnus umbellata are loaded with ripe fruits which can be turned into jam, fruit leather, sauce, barbecue sauce, liqueur, pies, and so much more.
What is an Autumn ...
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Persimmon Cake Recipe
One of my favorite Autumn fruits is the American Persimmon, Diospyros virginiana. This native persimmon grows across much of the Southeast and lower Midwest, and produces small orange globes of fruit on stately trees.
We have planted a few trees on our property and have access to a few ...
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Vegetable Storage in a Root Cellar
This is the second winter that we are enjoying the fruit and vegetable storage capacities of our homestead root cellar. Root cellaring is my personal favorite method of food preservation because it is the least labor-intensive, and it preserves food as close to its fresh-out-of-the-garden state as ...
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