Thanks to our fruit trees, we have a plethora of apples all autumn, and for years I didn’t know what to do with the excess. I made pies, apple crisp (my absolute FAVORITE), apple sauce, and pretty much everything else you can make out of apples.. except apply butter! A decade ago I didn’t even
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If you’re ready to jump on the homestead bandwagon, this post is for you. Yes, it’s definitely worth it, but it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. In 2026, influencers everywhere are convincing you that you need healthier food, lower grocery bills, and ALL the things related to homesteads, but they rarely talk about
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Most of us start homesteading with a picture in our heads of fresh eggs, a garden with tons of tomatoes, a freezer full of meat, and the kids running around outside instead of staring at a screen. And let me tell you.. that picture CAN be real, it’s just not the entire picture. You’ll see
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If you weren’t aware, a carton of oat milk at the grocery store costs about the same as a whole bag of rolled oats.. mind blowing! But the other fascinating part of that is that bag makes somewhere around ten batches of oat milk at home. And once you realize that, it becomes increasingly harder
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We’ve seen the sourdough community grow rapidly over the past 6 years, and I’m thrilled for it. But with the growth I’ve seen a lot of countering opinions and bad advice. Of course, that comes with the territory. And although I love to hear input from others, I think it’s important to sort out what’s
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As a homesteader, you all know how much I love my sourdough. It was a love-hate relationship at first, but isn’t that true for all of us? Once I nailed down sourdough starter and the traditional bread recipes, I moved on to more difficult (and delicious) recipes, and I can honestly say that this casserole
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I remember dreaming about my future homestead and thinking about all the animals I would have roaming my property. In this vision, I saw chickens, goats, maybe a horse or two, and of course bunnies. And thinking back to that memory, I have to laugh because it was a cute thought, but definitely ignorant to
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One of my biggest downfalls as a sourdough baker is that I hate feeding my starter. I do it when needed, but the scooping half a jar of perfectly good flour in the trash every day makes me feel guilty. Like I’m wasting a bunch of really great food. So that’s when I set out
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Let’s just say that my first sourdough loaf was ROUGH. It was flat, ridiculously dense, and super gummy in the middle. The frustrating part was that I had followed the recipe exactly because I had heard it was common to mess up your first few loaves, and I swore up and down that wouldn’t be
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If you’re seeing your tomato leaves chewed through and a bunch of aphids invading your pepper stems, you’ve got yourself a little problem. A lot of people will just spray everything down and hope that will take care of the problem. And it might for a week or two, but those critters WILL be back
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