Over the next few weeks I'm dismantling the food room upstairs and moving everything to a spare bedroom in the basement. When I made the decision I knew it was a monumental task I've got ahead of me, but in the end it's a much better space for this. Not only does it stay cooler …
Continue reading Adventures in Homesteading: Breaking it Down
The world has so much ugliness that it's our duty to bring as much beauty to it as we can. I'm doing my part over here, or trying to while fighting against the sun that wants to scorch the earth. Everything is hanging in there, though. The front flowerbeds look amazing. The day lily is …
Have you ever had one of those weeks? You know, the kind that seems to bring an avalanche of unfortunate events all at once? Ugh. Me too. The other day we set out on a mission to buy a few more oil lamps because a) I just love them and b) they sure come in …
I know it seems like such a basic thing to most homesteader/prepper types, but I haven't identified as either of these for very long so this business of dehydrating and storing food I've grown is a new adventure for me! It was rainy yesterday (melting all our snow!) and there just wasn't much to do …
Continue reading Adventures in Prepping: Dehydrating Potatoes
We knew it was time to harvest some of the corn because it's been giving us all the right signals that it's ready. Plus, we'd been eating it one or two cobs at a time all week so we had properly tested it out beforehand. Well, mostly the hubs and my sons were eating it. …
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