{Out the Front Door: An occasional series featuring snapshots and snippets of homestead life, right out our front door.}
Spring has officially sprung in NE Missouri. The grass is growing, the whippoorwills are calling, and the ticks are crawling. In the upper garden, overwintered garlic is coming ...
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Baking Without an Oven :: Woodstove Bakes
Because we live in a tiny 350 square foot house, we have not found a way to fit an oven into our small kitchen. However, my husband and I both LOVE to bake. In the summertime, we harness the sun and bake in a Sun Oven. The rest of the year, we experiment with ways to bake without an oven. Last year, ...
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Waldorf Homeschooling on our Homestead
I’m often asked about how we homeschool our two children, ages 4 and 7. And while I’ve shared quite a bit about our homeschooling experience in past blog posts, I haven’t given an update in quite a while.
Last year we gathered every Friday with a few other families for a Waldorf-inspired mixed ...
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Finding your Ideal Homestead Land
Finding a piece of land on which to create your ideal homestead is a rather subjective process. Aside from a few traits that I would consider non-negotiable - a water source and some southern exposure - I’d be hard pressed to give a list of “must haves.” After all, each family’s needs will be ...
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Tree Sap: Nature’s Spring Tonic
The first winter we lived in NE Missouri, I was treated to a beverage that I had never tasted before: tree sap. Our neighbors routinely tapped their black walnut trees, not to make black walnut syrup, but to drink the clear, slightly sweet tree sap as a spring tonic.
Since that day, I've ...
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The Sugarmaker’s Companion :: Book Review
When we began making black walnut syrup last winter, we wished for a go-to guide to help us with the process. We knew from talking with local friends that black walnut sap was drinkable and very tasty; surely if we boiled it down we’d come up with an edible product!
After a season’s worth of ...
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