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Preparing Your Vegetable Garden For Winter – A Homesteader Interview
The garden is the heartbeat of the homestead. It is the place you spend your entire summer tilling, planting, and weeding. Then fall hits and it is harvest time and you spend the next month picking, canning, and preserving. But what do you do after harvest? How do you begin preparing your vegetable garden for winter? Whether your plan is…
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The Best Pie Crust Recipe (Step by Step Guide)
This step by step guide will teach you everything you need to know to make the perfect pie crust every time. In this guide we will talk about what makes the best pie crust recipe and break the recipe down into a step by step process that will up your pie crust making game in time for the holidays. Your…
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Beginners Guide on How to Winterize Your Bee Hives (An Interview)
Today we are talking about bee keeping on the homestead and what you need to know on how to winterize your bee hives. We will talk with homesteader and bee keeper Cara Nitz and get her thoughts on keeping bees and how to prepare them for the long winter ahead. Bees and homesteading have gone hand in hand for well…
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Easy and Hearty Indian Stew (with Ninja Foodi Adaptation)
Cool weather is an invitation for hearty meals at the dinner table. One of our favorite hearty stews for cold weather is an Indian Stew that is chock full of potatoes and carrots and served over a bed of rice. You heard that right! Rice and potatoes makes this easy and hearty Indian Stew a stick to your ribs kind…
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Benefits of Seed Saving and How to Start (an Interview)
Seed saving is an important part of any homesteaders or gardeners preparation for winter. As the garden comes to a close, it is important to be planful of the upcoming year and a new gardening season. Seed saving is at the heart of true sustainability and self reliance. All Photo rights in this post belong to Ashley at The Homestead…
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The Best Apple Streusel Bread Recipe
This is the best apple streusel bread recipe you will come across! It is a delicious and relatively healthy dessert that taste like fall. Large chunks of apples stud this lovely quick bread. The cinnamon, oat, and brown sugar streusel topping provides the perfect amount of sweetness and texture to make this apple streusel bread a delightful mouthful. Apples are…
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How to Use Herbal Remedies on the Homestead (an Interview)
With cold and flu season upon us, what better way to prepare the homestead for winter than with Herbal remedies. These remedies are what our ancestors used before modern medicine came into play and continue to be a great way to keep your family happy and healthy on the homestead. Herbs are a multi purpose plant at the homestead. They…
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Preparing for Winter on the Homestead- Dehydrating Food
This time of year is an especially busy one for homesteaders as they prepare the homestead. As winter closes in, there is a lot of prep work to make sure your family and animals have what they need for the coming months of cold weather. While supermarkets remain open, most homesteaders pride themselves in their ability to remain self sustaining…
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Easy Zuppa Toscana at Home
It’s Fall Y’all! That means it’s soup season, which is my favorite food season of all. Soup is one of those warm you from the inside out kinds of foods, and this easy Zuppa Toscana will have your family full and happy in under thirty minutes! Soup is my go to dinner when I am not sure what to make…
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Easy SPAM Breakfast Skillet Recipe
If you are looking for a hearty breakfast that doesn’t break the bank or have you spending hours in the kitchen, look no further than our SPAM Breakfast Skillet. This one skillet dish is filled with hearty simple ingredients that will keep your family full long past lunchtime. Weekends are for big breakfasts here at the farm. We usually have…
