It's been tradition for as long as Ed and I have been married for Ed to make the pumpkin pie for his side of the family's Thanksgiving...

The chickens have ramped up production, and we are now getting at least a half-dozen eggs a day. Maggie has been giving some away, but...

Ed gave me an idea this weekend. Ed wanted to make homemade bread that had chunks of discernable cheese in it along with our home canned...

I saw a couple on YouTube make a version of spinach pie using store bought crescent roll dough so I thought I'd give it a try. I wanted...

This was our first time making hot sauce. We had one last hurrah of hot pepper harvest from our garden so we decided to give making hot...

Prior to taking down our garden for the fall / winter, I picked the last of our jalapeno and habanero peppers along with the remainder of...

I made a loaf of sour dough bread earlier in the week. While the bread is always wonderful fresh, the older it gets, the harder it is to...

This past weekend, I pressure canned 8 quart jars of zucchini. (I know that pressure canning zucchini (cubes in my case) is no longer...

As summer wears on, our garden is beginning to yield more produce. While we have dusted off the canning supplies, this is also the time...

You can tell canning season has been too long when you get excited about finding a new style of jar. One of the problems that crop up in...

One of the crops I was most excited about this year was our cucumbers, because I wanted to make pickles. Fortunately, we have had good...

When it rains, it pours, and last week was no exception. After several weeks without rain, we received about 3 inches of rain in 3 days....

On her periodic walks this week, Maggie noticed wild raspberries ripening along our fenceline. I had not realized they were there until...

The garlic we planted last fall has been a bright spot in our garden. First appearing in early March, the garlic has, so far, survived...

As we slowly expand our food production, a future step will be to have chickens for eggs and meat. While Maggie loves eggs, I am not a...

Way back in March, we laid out a handful of things we wanted to do with our land this year. This weekend, we were able to enjoy the last...

Search any homesteader or natural remedy blog, and the search is bound to turn up at least one post on apple cider vinegar. It is so...

Even though we only had four tomato plants this year, we ended up with way more tomatoes than we could possibly eat fresh (and I’ve been...

As the days begin to shorten and fruits and vegetables ripen, food preservation season is upon us. We have canned food on and off for...

Driving through Richland Center this weekend, we passed a small roadside stand in the parking lot of the Napa auto parts store. An Amish...