Cold winter weather can be the worse for homesteading animals, not only is it checking on the water multiple times per day in heavy overalls and coat, but it is checking on the animals as well. From experience, here are some of my tips to help your chickens and ducks in the cold weather, and …
The day after Valentine’s Day, I’m at the store searching what I can find on discount. Some of the stems on this second day are not healthy at all. Lilies with their petals falling off. Bouquets that somebody didn’t insert back fully into the buckets of water. Roses with the tips of the petals turning …
The summer before we moved to our current homestead, I was sick and tired of being squished while picking tomatoes and peppers and having loads of weeds in my cut flower garden. I wasn’t designing a garden before planting at this time. My husband helped take care of the weeds, but I wanted something different. …
Over the last few years, I’ve created beautiful farm fresh bouquet for my wedding, as well as other floral bouquets for countless special occasions. I find them all to be beautiful and fitting for the occasion. Just as beautiful is the growth of learning growing and arranging fresh-cut flowers. Fresh Peony Wedding Bouquet- 2019 With …
This BBQ venison jerky recipe is based off a family recipe. The main difference is I swapped out the steak sauce for BBQ sauce and we use heat to dehydrate. So it does not take us a whole twelve hours to dehydrate. Using BBQ sauce instead of steak sauce creates a much sweeter piece of …
I was first introduced to baking layered cakes when I wanted to bake my own wedding cake. Not every cake needs to be three tiers with nine layers, but it is fun to bake creative layered cakes for get-togethers, birthday parties, holidays, and just special days of needing some cake. This recipe uses boxed cake …
I usually fry my venison steaks in a skillet on high heat, but I was just wanting an easy way to make venison steaks. I searched online, but all the recipes called to sear the meat before baking, which I’m sure is great for keeping the juices in. But it was not want I was …
Living in Pennsylvania, a part of how I grew up was eating two types of pies. Pumpkin Pie and Apple Pie. When I started making homemade apple pies, I was intimidated to create the perfect homemade apple pie. Apple pies do take lots of steps, but once you learn the process and some baking science …
With loving to sew my own dresses, when my brother’s wedding was coming up in the Fall of 2022, I decided to make time to sew a blue lace dress for the occasion. I always do love long dresses, but I didn’t want to make a dress to wear one time when the style of …
Two years after sewing my wedding dress from scratch, and a year after sewing another dress for anniversary pictures, I wanted to create a floral dress in the same theme. I wanted to sew a short version of my wedding dress since my wedding day, but with other life goals, it was pushed off to …