Question and Answer Session About Our Old Renovated Farmhouse. Answering all your questions about our first home, the farmhouse we renovated over three years! This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. A young newlywed couple, 10 weeks pregnant with their first baby, stands in the doorway of their just-purchased first home….
Blog
Mother’s Day Gift Ideas For Homesteading Mamas
Mother’s Day Gift Ideas For Homesteading Mamas. Some great gift ideas for any of the chicken-crazy tomato-growing moms in your life! This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. I’m going to make a shocking statement here, you guys. You ready for it? We don’t give gifts for mother’s day in our…
What I’m Loving Spring 2021
What I’m Loving Spring 2021. Things I’m thankful for and enjoying around our homestead this spring! This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. There are a few things lately that I have really been loving. Of course I love God, my husband and my kids more than anything else. But as…
Our Farmhouse Home Tour
Our Farmhouse Home Tour! Step inside our 100+ year old farmhouse in this home tour. See before + after pictures and shop the home. This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. This old house has been quite the project. When we first moved in this over-100-year-old house you really had to…
Easy Sauerkraut Recipe
Easy sauerkraut recipe! A insanely simple recipe recipe for sauerkraut, that is full of amazing gut-boosting probiotics! This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. This, in my humble opinion, is the world’s best fermented food. So you must make some instantly! I insist. Your small intestine is thanking you already as…
Let’s Eat Some 8 Month Old Raw Eggs!
Let’s Eat Some 8 Month Old Raw Eggs! This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. Ok y’all. The time has come. If you remember, we waterglassed a whole bunch of eggs in a 5-gallon bucket about 8 months ago. Today I’m going to take some of the eggs out and see…
How To Cure Your Own Bacon At Home
How To Cure Your Own Bacon At Home This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. We had a sayin’ growing up. “You’re off the bacon list!” If someone did something annoying we would playfully tell them that they were getting no more bacon. Because it is gold in our household. And…
Nourishing Bath Salts Recipe
Nourishing Bath Salts Recipe This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. Now that I’m a mama I don’t get as much time for baths. And honestly I didn’t appreciate the fabulousness of a good bath before the kids came around. But man, it sure is a treat when I can get…
How To Cure Ham Without Sodium Nitrite
How To Cure Ham Without Sodium Nitrite This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. There is something so satisfying about being involved in every process of taking an animal from living in the pasture, to the dinner table. I love that we know the farmer who raised our hogs. What they…
Powdered Laundry Detergent Recipe
Powdered Laundry Detergent Recipe This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. I like clean laundry. I guess that is kind of obvious, me being a homemaker and all. But clean fresh smelling laundry is glorious. Now, I don’t always enjoy the cleaning of it or especially the folding, because sometimes I…