Great Homemade Gifts for Any Time of the Year Does Christmas stress you out? I completely understand! Last year we decided to say “NO” to a lot of the business of the holidays and focus on what is truly important to us as a family. We wanted to go back to how Christmas used…
This is Part 3 of our Maple Syrup Series: How to Tap Maple Trees & Collect the Sap. In this post, we will show you how to tap your maple trees with an instructional video, discuss why it is important to have a tapping and collecting game plan, and show you how we collect…
Preserving food is much more than just canning. It includes freezing, dehydrating, pickling, root cellaring, and more. Anything that you can do to store food for your family counts as preserving! That is what this challenge is about. Preserving food! Now that I have settled that, let’s get on with the 2020 Put “em…
Progress is not always defined by a number. That is what I am reminding myself this year with our preserving. In the past, we had more jars canned and more things froze. We made bigger batches, we spent more time, we stressed more, and stayed up to the wee hours of the morning finishing…
Are you on the hunt for the perfect gift for the country women in your life? Here are some practical gifts that she will actually use and love! Or maybe you need some ideas for yourself. Here are a few gifts that I absolutely love or that I am asking for this year!…
Fall is such a beautiful season! The weather is cooling down, the birds are flying south, and the horizon is bursting with colors of burnt orange, golden yellow, bright green, rust-brown, and crimson. In no time at all, the array of colors will be gone, the trees will be bare, and frost will cover…
Fall… pumpkin spice, apple picking, warm drinks, sitting by a fire, hayrides, and BEAUTIFUL FALL LEAVES. That is what comes to mind when I think of fall. It is one of my favorite seasons! I wish fall would stay around a little longer, but the leaves change colors quickly, and before you know it,…
Welcome to the Quickstart Guide to Canning! In this post I would like to provide a crash course on canning. I do not want to complicate the process any more than it has to be. My desire is that this will be a tool that will give a beginner the knowledge to begin…
In our home, we like to make as many things as we can. It gives us the knowledge to be able to do things without a store and also allows us to know what is in the products that we use in our home. It also saves a TON of money and you control…
