Two-for-one deals are my favorite, especially when it means one less thing I have to buy from a store.

Using the rendered lard that we had from butchering our pork hogs this year, I decided to make my own candles.

From-scratch living will bring you joy, self-fulfillment, and a sense of primal completeness - it will hit you smack-dab in the middle of yo

Why do we bother? All this extra work and time spent making, baking, prepping, tending, feeding and watering. It seems like a lot - and some

Start With A Stick (SWAS) - that's the age-old Harper family motto on the use of butter.

"I'd much rather eat pasta & drink wine than be a size 0" - Sophia Lauren I was gifted a pasta cutter. Little did the gift giver know,...

I am proud to say that we have accomplished much of what we set out to do on the Homestead this year.  We are raising our feathered and furr

One of the major homesteading "rules of engagement", is using the natural resources available to you, and avoiding waste.  With th

I have never been one to wish for rain, but after the Homestead Husband laid down the duck pond liner last night, I have been doing my rain