Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
Every year around this time I go into total organization, budgeting, planning and goal-setting mode. After the frenzy of the holidays, I’m more than ready to settle into a routine and get back on track with my spending, simplifying and health goals. I know I’m not...
DIY Home & Body, Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
Save money, reduce food waste and and improve everything from your soil to your gut health with this list of 11 frugal ways to use kitchen scraps in your home and garden. *** We’re such a wasteful society, especially here in the west. The mounds of waste we...
Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
* This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure. Us homesteaders are known for our resourcefulness and our tendency to do all things handmade. Christmas is, of course, no exception. But we can’t do it all...
Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
* This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure. Every year around this time, I compile a list of the year’s best gifts for the homesteader(s) in your life, whether that means other people on your...
Blog, Organic Gardening, Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
We’ve had a summer growing season as strange and unpredictable as 2020 itself. Despite a warm, sunny spring, the summer got off to an unseasonably cool, wet start in June and July. This meant that some of our heat-loving crops like tomatoes and peppers got off to a...
Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
If I had to choose a single word to sum up 2020, it would have to be “stressful.” Or “overwhelming.” Or… Okay, I’d choose two words. Between the coronavirus pandemic, sky-high political tensions, adapting to the “new normal,” going double speed on all of our homestead...
