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Fabric Wipes & Homemade Solution Update

Fabric Wipes & Homemade Solution Update

Last month, shortly after Sprout was born, I posted about our homemade diaper wipe solution.  What I neglected to post about was the fabric wipes we're using as well! So, yes, in addition to homemade solution we're using, we're also using fabric wipes that came from the flannel remnants of the fabric (paper) towels we made last winter.  We cut…
November 16, 2013
Chicken Stock – Using the Whole Chicken

Chicken Stock – Using the Whole Chicken

Last July, after much debate and in preparation for the Kitchen Garden & Coop Tour, we culled four of our laying hens.  Culling is never an easy thing for us, but it is part of the agreement we made with each other before we got chickens back in 2010. After culling and cleaning the four, we bagged them up and…
November 11, 2013
Harvesting Echinacea Seeds

Harvesting Echinacea Seeds

  2013 marked our Echinacea's third year and it was absolutely gorgeous this summer with all of its brilliant blossoms and visiting pollinators (bees and butterflies) buzzing around them all summer long!  Though I didn't actually measure them, I would say the stalks got up to about 4 feet tall for the most part which made for a brilliant eye…
November 8, 2013
Homemade Baby Wipe Solution

Homemade Baby Wipe Solution

Throughout Tool Lady's pregnancy, we talked about all of the things we wanted to do for Sprout, for health reasons, environmental reasons and for economical reasons.  We talked about making our own homemade baby wipe solution and cloth wipes, using cloth diapers and, in the future, making our own baby food (preferably from our own garden), to name just a…
October 14, 2013
How to Plant Garlic

How to Plant Garlic

Garlic is, hands down, my favorite and most used spice! Whether it's whole and roasted, chopped and simmered (or sauteed) or in powder form, it goes in pretty much everything savory I make in the kitchen! Who: I always purchase my seed garlic from either Seed Savers Exchange or our local Farmers Market and would recommend the same for you.…
October 13, 2013
Hot Sauce DIY

Hot Sauce DIY

Well, we have just completed our very first fermentation project!  With all of the Cayenne Peppers we grew this summer, I've been looking for ways to use them up and  (like I mentioned a little while back), Andrea's Homemade, Homegrown Cayenne Pepper Hot Sauce sounded like a perfect addition to our winter stores! Following Andrea's directions, I filled two pint jars with…
October 4, 2013