When Autumn temperatures start to climb below freezing, I immediately think of all the beautiful kale still growing in the garden. Sure, I've eaten my fill over the spring and summer, but it feels horrible to imagine those abundant beds of kale turning into mush in freezing temperatures. It's time ...
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How to Bottle Hard Apple Cider
Making hard apple cider is one of the easiest ways to preserve your apple harvest. After following the instructions on How to Make Hard Cider, read on to learn (from my husband Brian) how to rack and bottle your hard apple cider.
We left off with your batch of freshly pressed cider happily ...
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Digestive Bitters with Dandelion, Orange Peel & Ginger
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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