Sustainability is all the rage today, and for good reason! Creating more self-reliance in your life brings more freedom from unfulfilling jobs, stress and debt. Regardless of where you live or what season of life you find yourself, there are ways to be more sustainable every day! Here are “54 Ways to Be More Sustainable”!…
Preserving Food
How to Freeze Strawberries
Strawberry season is right around the corner! Whether you pick your berries at a U-pick farm, grocery store or gather them from your own garden, you’ll want to know “How to Freeze Strawberries”. I absolutely LOVE frozen berries, we use them all year round! We are big smoothie fans, but frozen berries are also great…
Why My Farm Journal is THE Most Powerful Tool I Have on the Homestead
I love all of the different tools that I get to use on the homestead, from hand tools to tractors. But of all the tools I use everyday, there is one tool that precedes everything I do around here. My farm journal. Why is my farm journal my most powerful tool? You’ve likely heard the…
What You Need to Know About Foraging for Wild Edibles
Spring is on it’s way and that means it’s almost time for foraging wild edibles! Foraging defined means “to search for wild food sources.” I find that sometimes people are uncomfortable with foraging, I felt the same way back in the day. But don’t ignore the enormous benefits of foraging until you understand a…
How to Bake a Pumpkin & Make Beeswax Candles at the Same Time
Yes, it’s December, but I still have 6 sugar pumpkins sitting around the house from fall decorating that need to be baked. I also have beeswax cappings that need to be melted down to make beeswax candles. So, I decided to do both at the same time today! Baking pumpkins isn’t rocket science, hardly worthy…