• Food Storage & Preservation

    How to Preserve Strawberries

    The abundance of spring often shows it first blaze of glory in the form of perfectly ripe, richly red, amazingly sweet, little strawberry gems. We wait rather impatiently for them as they shift from green to white to red and then eat as many as we can straight off the…

  • Homesteading

    Winter

    Being new to a property and micro-climate is a trip! You know… We’d noticed a few of the trees in the orchard that grew at incredibly wonky angles, but it wasn’t until the winds picked up in the spring and sent very heavy items spinning about like children’s toys, that we…

  • Family - Homesteading

    The Autumn Slide

    What a summer it’s been! I swear to you that I’ve written this post at least 15 times in my head over the past few weeks, updating it as new things have happened and trying to pull seconds out of free minutes to put pen to paper (or cursor to screen,…