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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I recently received the following comment on my DIY Dryer Maintenance post that read: “Wow, a dryer ? It’s always interesting to see how other “cultures” do things, I have never even owned one, a dryer that is. The clothes hang out on the line, the sun does it’s thing. …