It's strawberry season and the fruit is fresh, sweet, and delicious! Making wine, syrup or just eaten raw, they are a wonderful summer treat! But don't forget to bring summer to the table with homemade strawberry jam--fill your shelves for the year! Homemade Strawberry Jam is Super Easy Making jam is a great place to start if you are new to canning. It's quick and ...
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How to Make Bone Broth in Your Crock Pot Express
There aren't many things more comforting than a good mug of soup on a cold day, and a good soup's game is upped when you use this pressure cooker bone broth in it. Whether you have the Crock Pot Express or some other pressure cooker, you can have your bone broth in under two hours! The Crock Pot Express Multi-Cooker is pretty much my favorite appliance to use for beans, ...
How to Be a Boss at Canning Bone Broth at Home Safely
Want to fill your shelves with food while saving money? Sick of buying canned bone broth at the store when you know very well, you can make it for free out of your kitchen scraps? I know you do, and I know you are. The good news is canning your own bone broth at home will make you a BOSS at filling your shelves in no time flat! Follow this recipe, and you will be doing it ...
How To Make Soap For Beginners {Crock Pot}
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How to Have an Awesome Pomegranate Season
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How to Make THE Best Strawberry Syrup {from the Tops}
I'll bet you are thinking, "What the heck kind of homemade strawberry syrup can she be making here?" But stick with me, I know you will adore this recipe. It's cheap, easy, delicious, needs no cooking, and it's made from cast-off strawberry tops that would normally go into the trash or compost heap! Sound good? Heck yeah! If you've been reading my blog for a while, you ...
How to Make the Best Salsa {Recipe for Water Bath Canning}
Summer is a fantastic time for not only eating delicious salsa made from your huge tomato harvest, but for canning salsa too! This is the best salsa recipe for canning, and is wonderful to make for your shelf every year. It has been tested and found to be safe when you follow the given instructions, so you don't have to worry that you'll kill your family if you can some ...
How to Successfully Homeschool in Your State
In the wake of all that’s happened with the coronavirus over the past months, parents have found themselves forced to homeschool their children, much to their dismay and nervousness. I’ve had a few people message me asking what they should be doing for their children, so I thought I’d share some tips on how to homeschool in your state. In this post I’ll be sharing ...
Thankful: A Photo Journey of My Blessings
Thanksgiving season is the time to think about and revisit all of the things that we are grateful for that happened throughout the year, and perhaps even this season alone. Even though this is an older post, it is one of my more personal, as is fitting for the season. I am for sure thankful for the most obvious of blessings. These are my husband, who is always here for me. ...
How to Store Root Vegetables with No Root Cellar
As gardeners, the goal of growing our own food is to achieve good nutrition by providing enough healthy food to put on the table for the family throughout the year. Most crops are preserved by some sort of food preservation method: canning, dehydrating, freezing, etc. However, if you know how to store root vegetables properly, you can cut out a lot of extra work for ...
How to Use Mint Leaves: 7 Steps for No Waste + FREEBIE
Springtime is prime time for harvesting herbs for medicines and teas. The temperate weather allows delicate and not-so delicate herbs to grow abundantly in the garden, and plentiful harvests are sure to follow. Mint plants produce and multiply like crazy and trying to figure out all the ways we can use it can be pretty tricky. Here is my 7-step formula on how to use mint ...
More Awesome Tips for a No Waste Produce Harvest
Gardening is a lot of work, and throwing some of the harvest even into the compost pile can feel like a waste! Learning the ways we can use all of the harvest can help us put more food on the shelf, feel good about our food production, and get one step closer to a no waste kitchen. Love finding ways to use up every bit of what you harvest from the garden you work so hard ...