It's been my goal over the past few years to build my herbal medicine cabinet so I have ready-to-go remedies on hand for common ailments. We now have plenty of salves, a healthy supply of elderberry syrup, and various tinctures and teas. But after a few occurrences of mild indigestion, I knew I ...
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Small-Batch Maple Syrup Cider Recipe
If there are two foods that epitomize Vermont for me, they are maple syrup and apples. In late winter, conversation frequently turns to "how's the sugaring going?" (at least in my circles of friends and acquaintances!) and come spring, every rural roadside is white with the blossoms of apple trees. ...
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Wildflower Kombucha :: The taste of summer, in a fizzy ferment!
After a long Vermont winter, the arrival of wildflower season is celebration-worthy! Fields of dandelions, grassy meadows dotted with violets and strawberry flowers, abandoned farmsteads and roadsides lush with lilac hedges all beg to be smelled and sampled. How to best enjoy this bounty of edible ...
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9 Reasons NOT to Build a Homestead From Scratch
Building a homestead from scratch. For many, it's the ultimate homestead dream. It certainly was ours when we moved to Missouri 6 years ago and built an off the grid homestead on raw land - but is it really the best path forward?
Yes, it can be enormously appealing to design, plan, and ...
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Easy to Grow Herbs for your Homestead Medicinal Herb Garden
Growing herbs in a homestead medicinal herb garden is an efficient and enjoyable way to generate the raw materials you need to craft herbal remedies. Instead of sourcing dried herbs online or purchasing fresh herbs from the grocery store or farmer's market, you can grow abundant, inexpensive, and ...
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Choosing the Right Evaporator for Backyard Sugaring
The process of making syrup is an easy one: Tap trees, collect sap, boil it down to evaporate the water content and concentrate the naturally occurring sugars in the sap. But if you're a homesteader new to sugaring, how do you evaporate gallons of sap effectively and efficiently? In this post I'm ...
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