When I was a kid, I loved gardens. When we had one at our house, I loved weeding because it meant eventually I’d get to snack on yummy radishes. When teachers and grandparents wanted young labor to help in the gardens, I was always willing.
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Deer in the Garden: How to navigate gardening with wildlife
Hungry animals are bold animals. They will walk right into populated areas for a quick snack. And apparently, my garden is fair game. Here are my hard-earned tips on how to keep them out of yours.
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Top 5 Healthy Vegetables You Can Grow at Home
Everyone can readily buy vegetables they love at their nearest grocery store, but do you know that there are so many vegetables you can easily grow at home in no time?
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Grow and Harvest Yarrow for Insect Bites and Stings
I started beekeeping with two hives, and one was very calm and docile. The other? Uh, no, turns out they were Africanized and put me into the hospital. That’s another story you can read about here. But until we actually figured it out, we were finding ourselves with stings from just “more aggressive than normal” bees. Of everything we tried to soothe our skin, our family found Yarrow to be the most effective non-drowsy option.
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Couscous: An Ancient Food in Modern Times
I ask a lot of questions about my food—oh, not the food on the plate in front of me. I have eaten in too many foreign countries and permaculture events to stop and question that. No. I just eat, smile, and hope no one tells me until I have properly digested.
I ask questions about food like this…where does it come from? What are the traditional ways to prepare it? Who has altered it and how? What do they do with this over in India, Russia, or South America? And how will this food nourish my family?
Couscous. Have you ever thought of it? What is Couscous?
Food Semantics: The Art of Getting Your Kid to Eat That
My mother was a veritable food re-naming artist, and she was rather creative with presentation too.
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Everything You Need to Know About Buying, Storing, & Using Spices
Spices have become an integral part of modern cuisine both in terms of health, and taste and many households prefer to keep them at home in storage. Correctly using spices can result in the best, most flavorful dishes you will ever have; however, that can be maximized after keeping a few important points in your mind. Here is everything you need to know about buying, storing and using spices.
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Homemade Chicken Feed Using The Chop Rite
My how the chickens love this. It’s just what we do after fish night now. You can make homemade chicken feed from everyday scraps, but some scraps need to be broken down for them.
By grinding the parts that humans do not consume and feeding the chickens, we cut down on chicken feed and provide amazing nutrition to the girls.
We made this video five years ago when we first got our Chop Rite, and I don’t know why we never posted it. With five years’ experience with owning a Chop Rite, I can speak with some authority when I say that it was an excellent investment for our homestead.
Oh, and it’s still Made in America. The company used to be called “Enterprise” and once in awhile, you can still find an old Enterprise at an estate sale or in a dusty attic. They haven’t changed the design since they came out well over 100 years ago, so if you need Enterprise replacement parts, we have those too.
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Making Healthy Food Decisions for Your Family
Eating healthy is difficult these days, mainly because it’s hard to know what “healthy food” is. There are so many fad diets and theories on the “best” diet for optimum health that it’s hard to know where to start. Add this to the fact that many “nutritional” labels can be misleading, and it’s really difficult to know whether your efforts are even effective or not. Below are some tips on making healthy food decisions for your family.
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Planning Meals: The Top 5 Foods To Stock In Your Pantry
Planning Meals with the food you have on hand
Sometimes the meal ideas comes easily, sometimes it is a last-minute decision with hungry family underfoot. Planning meals out may be the ideal, but let’s face it–not all of us are consistent because we just get busy.
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Deciding to DIY or Outsource Your Home Project
When you have a to-do list of home projects you need to complete, the decision to DIY or outsource is important. Whether the project is small (like replacing a porch board), or large (like adding onto your home), both DIY and outsourcing will present unique pros and cons. Before reaching a decision, thoroughly research what to look for in a professional. Also, carefully assess exactly what you’re getting into before you start a DIY project.
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10 Meals in 20 Minutes (or less) Using Home-Canned Ground Beef
Fewer skills more relevant to the family with a hectic schedule than taking time to pressure-can healthful foods for last-minute meals. One jar of ground beef can create fifteen different meals in fifteen minutes or less.
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Non-toxic Pantry Items to Clean the House (plus recipes)
Our everyday products which we use for cleaning, polishing, washing and disinfecting are necessities that we cannot live without. Advertisements have been telling us that our houses are full of deadly germs and virus that may attack us and make us sick.
We believe that we are always surrounded by diseases that may just inflict on us anytime, and to make ourselves safe, we obsessively try to keep our surroundings sanitized by using endless toxic products that smell sweet but are full of harmful chemicals like phthalates, perchloroethylene, triclosan and many others.
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Indoor Planters for Your Indoor Herb Garden
An important thing to consider when constructing your indoor herb garden, is figuring out what sort of indoor planters to use! This is where you can have a lot of fun actually, because your indoor planters don’t necessarily need to be typical planters. You can use anything that will hold dirt/water without making a mess – though you do need to consider drainage in many situations.
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Florida will make these emergency preparedness items tax exempt
We have talked about emergency preparedness a lot on our site lately. We believe in kitchen self-sufficiency and traditional skills because they are healthy, economical, environmentally friendlier than packaged foods, and…because they ensure a greater sense of security in the face of disaster. Disaster preparedness is on our minds this time of year, knowing that we are just around the corner from Tornado Season and Hurricane Season in many parts of our country.
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