Today our kids wanted tacos for dinner. We’ve always bought our taco seasoning mix at the grocery store, but on our journey to becoming self-sufficient I wanted to make something I’d always have on hand. We are in the process of listing our house for sale, so unfortunately I didn’t pay enough attention to my…
Whether you’re a seasoned knitter or have never picked up a pair of needles in your life, now is a wonderful time to make some socks. Knitting is a fairly simple task and you can learn it fast with the use of YouTube tutorials. I knit a lot of socks in the winter time, however, spring…
Every so often, our local Salvation Army receives a plethora of a single food item that gets rejects by our local Walmart distribution center. A few years ago, they had so many strawberries that they couldn’t give them all away and I ended up making more jam than we could use. We sold some and donated…
What a month! After years of wanting to go all out, we finally started taking the steps to create a homestead where we live. Hopefully someday we will have an acre or 10, but for now we are content to make our homestead where we reside. This month we really went full force. I don’t expect the…
Chickens are like dogs. They love tasty treats and leftovers and they’re not all that picky either. They’ll take most of your table scraps, kitchen scraps, and leftovers and gobble them right up. There are some things you shouldn’t feed them, like french fries or chocolate, but for the most part you wouldn’t want them eating…
Chances are, you are already doing something that homesteaders do and you may not even realize it. You may have a garden, be a hunter, have backyard chickens for eggs, or just simply mend your own clothes, knit, make soap or other DIY projects that benefit your family. Modern homesteading is living a life that…
I’ve wanted to raise chickens for years, but we live in a suburban neighborhood on 1/8th of an acre and to be honest I didn’t know we could legally keep chickens in town. I found out a few months ago that we actually can have chickens, but are limited to 6 hens and zero roosters. …
