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You’ve put in a supply of pintos and Great Northern beans but you’re looking for something with a fresh appeal. A little more variety will help you sell them to others too. You don’t want appetite fatigue. There are some really beautiful beans out there, so attractive that I’d like to have them visible in […]

Kudos to you if you have begun buying and storing bulk food.  Twenty-five and fifty pound bags of beans, rice, wheat, sugar, oats and so on will really help you stretch your prepping budget.  Now, we need to think about how to make all that food palatable.  The most basic place to start is with […]

In a previous piece, I defined “training” as “teaching children concrete things or skills, giving them the opportunities to practice them, and helping them gain proficiency.”  In the next one, I shared some of the stories we had read together aloud, discussions we had subsequently had as a family, and listed a couple of organizations […]

To me, there is something very “homey” about a big bowl of steaming soup. I don’t mean the stuff you scrape out of tin can and then pour some water into before microwaving. I’m talking about the “simmer on the stove for hours” stuff. Where you take a little of this and a little of […]

Last Christmas, I purchased a stainless steel stove-top (old-timey) popcorn popper from Lehman’s.  It had gotten good marks from other buyers in their comments section, so despite the price tag, I bought one as a family gift. Not Your Microwave Popcorn This was hands-down one of the best things we’ve ever gotten.  Not only does […]

So, you’ve got a nice flock of chickens on your homestead, but a couple of problems have cropped up.  What do you do now?  In the next few installments, I’ll try to address some of them and share what we’ve learned and tried. The Chickens Don’t Lay Where I Want Them To. Sometimes I Can’t […]

If you have been giving my bean-eating challenge a fair chance, you’ve probably realized that incorporating some new storage friendly foods into your diet isn’t as hard as you thought it would be (and hopefully you are actually enjoying these new dishes!). A New Challenge I have a new challenge- what can you FIND OUTSIDE […]

In a previous post, I recommended investing in cast iron pans that will last you a lifetime rather than a series of non-stick aluminum ones that will need replacing every few years.  Now I want to address how cooking with cast iron is a bit different than with newer non-stick cookware. What does it mean […]

You built your coop, you’ve lovingly fed your little cluckers for 5 months, and finally, your patience pays off!  The first egg! If you are fortunate, it is a complete, intact egg.  (First attempts are occasionally a bit clumsy, with no shell- pretty cool to see, though- or oddly shaped).  You will remember and celebrate […]

When we first planned our move to our farm, I started reading everything I could get my hands on about farming, animals, raising food, building fences and coops, and on and on.  One of my all-time favorites is a book my sister-in-law first told me about – The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery. Throughout […]