I saw this on Pinterest recently and I didn’t understand why it was such a big deal. Freeze lemons, OK, so what? Well, it turns out that lemons contain unique compounds called “lemonoids” which do serious battle against cancerous tumor, particularly from breast cancer. Lemon peels are packed with vitamins, way more than the actual … Read more
Gardening can be fun for kids, though it requires more patients than most kids can muster up. Getting them started with an interest in gardening at a young age will increase their likelihood of eating healthy and continuing gardening as they grow older. Gardening can get kids off the couch and outside where they belong, … Read more
Beer isn’t just great for the gardener after a hard day’s work, it’s also great for the health of your garden. One way to put this beverage to work for you is to use it to attract and to kill slugs that can damage your crops and even spread disease. Here’s how to use household items … Read more
Yesterday I wrote about 30 items to purge in the New Year for a clutter-free homestead, and one of the purposes for purging is to make room for hoarded items that you do need! So here is a list of important non-food items to hoard in the New Year. Keeping with the trend of that article, it’s … Read more
YouTubers and homesteaders Pure Living for Life shared this video last year on how they built an off-grid winter cabin for a few hundred dollars. They had been living in their RV on their property, but as temperatures started to drop they felt they needed something warmer and more secure, and a structure to put … Read more
For homesteaders, there’s a lot of things that are great to hoard and keep a good stock of. However, like any household, there are also often things that pile up and just create clutter and mess. If you’d like to keep a well-ordered homestead with plenty of room for a good stash of supplies, it’s … Read more
I have always been fascinated by the Amish and Mennonites. When I think of the way they keep their land, houses, families, and communities, it always makes me wonder what has gone so horribly wrong with modern life that millennials are taking college courses on “adulting” and most women these days learn to keep house … Read more
Anyone that grew up a Duke Boys fan knows that sometimes making your way the only way you know how can be more than the law allows. This doesn’t just apply to reckless driving and moonshining though, this can apply to growing beans and tomatoes or raising chickens. All over the country and even … Read more