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Homemade Dried Cranberries (Craisins); Cheaper and Less Sugar
As the winter weather has arrived in Kentucky, I have had a little more time to try some new things in the kitchen. One of my Christmas presents this year was a new dehydrator, a COSORI Dehydrator. I was thinking I would have to wait until summer or harvest to try using my new dehydrator. …
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The Struggle is Real; More About My Struggle with Gardening and Homesteading
To be honest if you are gardening and/or homesteading: you are struggling. It’s even biblical, …. “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.” Genesis 3:17. So there will be a struggle even if you read all the right books, use…
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Five Easy Steps Towards Your Homesteading Dreams, One Step at a Time
Five Easy Steps Towards Your Homesteading Dreams, One Step at a Time Wikipedia defines homesteading as a lifestyle of self sufficiency. If we are being honest none of us are completely self sufficient. We all depend on something whether it’s industry, community, or government. There are varying levels of that dependence and in turn varying…
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Snow Day Fun: Easy Use What You Have, Snow Cream, Accidentally Dairy Free
Here on the homestead we recently experienced a nice accumulating snow. It has been a couple of years here in central Kentucky since we have had more than an inch or two of snow. Needless to say, the roads are bad and we are staying warm by our wood burning stove. I have always felt…
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Heritage of Homesteading, Self Sufficiency in my History
I definitely have homesteading in my DNA; let’s be honest most of us do. When I think about my grandparents’ generation or my great grandparents’ generation, most of them gardened, raised some source of meat, and had home food preservation. The generations before us were homesteaders out of necessity. I remember my father telling me…
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Healthier Treats, Yummy Spelt Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies
Like many of you, my goal for the new and every year is to improve my health by making healthier choices. A couple of years ago we found out that my homesteader husband is diabetic. We changed several things about our lifestyle in order to help him manage his diabetes. One of the things I…
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Goat Prepping, Getting Ready for my Baby Nigerian Dwarf Goats
So Christmas is over, which is usually very anticlimactic for me personally. However, the imminent arrival of my goats and an unusually warm Kentucky December day have inspired me to goat prep. I have been researching goat ownership for over a year at this point. Sometimes in order to achieve a goal you have…
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