By Anastasia Sakawsky | Dessert , Recipes
Mini cherry pies in a muffin tin, because nothing says summer like cherry pie. Something about it reminds me of fireworks and the 4th of July (or Canada Day for my fellow Canucks;) Cherry pie was the first pie I ever made from scratch. I made it with store-bought sweet cherries and a basic pie […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Food Preservation , Podcast
How to pick the best preserving methods for you summer harvest for a year’s worth of food, or if not a year’s worth of food, how to preserve it to keep it from going bad before you and your family can eat it. I invited back Carolyn Thomas of HomesteadingFamily.com to discuss how we go […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | Main Dish , Recipes
Mafe- a Peanut Sauce & Rice Recipe and how I came to have it. Before I was a homesteader, I was a traveller. In fact – ironically enough – travelling is one of the things that inspired me to start homesteading in the first place. Experiencing how different cultures lived around the world, enjoying all […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Podcast
How to keep your house cool in summer without electricity when and you’re in full board preserving mode, aka a homesteader kitchen in summer is vastly different than the majority of main stream society, can be a challenge. We’ve got bread to bake, cast iron skillets to sizzle, Mason jars and canners waiting to be […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Food Preservation , Podcast
Home food preservation- how to create a preserving plan for a year’s worth of food to help keep you same, manage your time, and get the harvest put up! We plan out our garden, start seeds, plant, lovingly tend to it, get a little sad over thinning out our darlings, water it, and then when […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Gardening , Podcast
Saving time in the garden is important, because modern homesteaders need all the time they can get for preserving, crafting and some time enjoying their haven. One of the things that all of us wants is to have is a beautiful crop from whatever it is we’re planting. We want to get the most produce […]
Read MoreBy Charisse Merrill | Fermenting , Podcast
Fermentation for health benefits and food preservation stretches back thousands of years, it’s one of the earliest forms of preparing food and preserving it, yet it’s not nearly as common in modern society as canning or dehydrating. But thankfully, it’s quickly growing again and has even become, dare I say it, somewhat trendy. Holler for […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Cattle , Livestock , Podcast
Keeping a family milk cow or having a home dairy on the homestead is something I’ve long considered. Grass fed organic raw milk at he store is hard to come by… and you’re also paying more for all that wonderfulness. Dreams of cream, farmers cheese, cream cheese, buttermilk, glass jars of creamy white milk lined […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | DIY Recipes & Tutorials , Natural Medicine Cabinet
Learning how to make dandelion salve is one of the best ways to create a healing salve from one of nature’s most prolific plants. Dandelions are often the first weed of spring to pop up all over lawns across America. To those who strive for golf green-like grass, dandelions are a nuisance, and people often […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Lifestyle , Podcast
Tips for homesteading off-grid, living without running water or a refrigerator, and how to get creative using old-fashioned pioneer skills to preserve your food. Learn how one family is using solar power to live off grid in a one room cabin without running water or a refrigerator, just like the pioneer families of old, and […]
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