Tepache- A Fermented Pineapple Beverage
Tepache is a delicious, healthy drink made from the rind and core of fresh pineapple. It is mildly fermented and good for your gut!
A Natural Sweetener Made from Scraps…True Story!
Most of us are looking for simple ways to cut a few calories, especially after the holidays. I have a great tip for making your own natural sweetener from something you may typically throw away. It sounds way too good to be true, but it’s not! What is this miraculous, mystery substance? Dried apple peels!…
A Simple Homestead Holiday
This year I decided that “less is more” and that we would have a simple, old-fashioned Christmas. Making it to the end of 2020 was a cause to celebrate and many went all out for the holidays. What fun! Honestly, I just didn’t have the bandwidth this year. I was grateful for healthy family and…
Cheers to this Festive Holiday Treat!
Celebrate Dickens style with this delicious Smoking Bishop drink straight from the pages of A Christmas Carol. This will warm your insides, tickle your toes and fill your house with an intoxicating aroma of mulled wine and citrus. The recipe I use is from the New York Times Cooking and here are the ingredients you…
Raised Bed Gardening
At our former house in the ‘burbs, we had three small raised beds that we used for vegetable gardens. They did well, were easy to maintain, and seemed to keep the rabbits out. When we moved out to the country, my husband built a larger raised bed and made it much higher. It is very…
Green Powder
I have been playing around with my new dehydrator and just made a batch of nutritious green powder. You may have seen variations of green powder in health food stores and noticed that it is not cheap! Since it was time to pull the spinach and lettuce from the garden (they were starting to go…
The Homesteading Life
I have been keeping a journal of our adventures (sometimes misadventures) of our life in the country. Friends have asked about things such as recipes, gardening, drying herbs, natural skincare, etc. and I love to share. When a sweet friend commented that I should start a blog, I thought it was a great idea (thanks,…
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