Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
* This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure. When we think of homesteading, visions of backyard chickens, bountiful veggie gardens and jars of home-canned foods lining pantry shelves are usually the first...
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 my favourite things: Things that I love, use or covet for my own homestead, and things that I know other modern...
From-Scratch Recipes, Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
Cast iron cookware is seeing a comeback. While it’s one of the oldest types of cookware still in use today, cast iron fell out of fashion in the mid 20th century when other types of cookware such as aluminum, stainless steel and Teflon-coated non-stick pans gained...
From-Scratch Recipes, Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
When it comes to homesteading skills, learning how to render your own lard is high on the list of things that will have you feeling like you’re channeling Ma Ingalls in your kitchen. Of course, us modern homesteaders know there’s absolutely no shame in using modern...
From-Scratch Recipes, Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
* This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure. There’s just something about cooking food in cast iron that feels so wholesome and old-timey; Like grandma (or maybe even great grandma) used to cook. A...
Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living
* This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure. As I write this, I’m staring out my office window at a gloomy, dark, rainy sky. Summer is officially dead and fall is alive and well. In just a few more weeks it...
