The art of modern homesteading and self reliance.
I love having Pinto Beans on hand. You pay a dollar more or less for a can of these at the grocery store. Instead you can buy a large bag of dried beans at a much better price and then can your own. This is the fast easy way to have Beans on hand ready to go. Beans can be put into so many meals and are healthy for you.
This is a great recipe for a large batch of cucumbers.
The recipe for these comes this great canning book
The overnight soak in salt water helps to firm up the cucumbers and flavor them before their rendezvous with the canning pot, but it doesn’t allow for actual fermentation.
My Husband surprised me one night with this amazing book
The recipes are different and Fresh. I have taken the Kosher Dill Pickle recipe from this book. The only thing is that there may be some recipes where you buy ingredients you may not usually buy but if you want something with a twist you will like her recipes.
Chives are a very easy perennial herb to grow. They can be used in soups salads pasta dishes potatoes and really any food that you would normally use onions. Chives are a member of the Allium family which also includes garlic, onions, scallions and leeks. Below I will show you how to harvest your Chives and keep them fresh.
Gardening is a process. When I get discouraged and think I will never have a garden like some amazing people I know I have to remind myself of this quote.
“A garden is never as good as it will be next year.” – Thomas Cooper
Every year is exciting because you get to try something different. I started out with the three square foot gardens, then carved out my garden bed in the ground. Slowly you add a little here a little there.
So if you are like me you may be wondering what is the best method to garden. Should I do my gardening in Raised boxes or should I just till the ground. I had this question when I first started my gardens and I decided to do both to see what I liked best. There are benefits in each. So My first gardens were the Square foot ones. You can grow a variety of Veggies. Here are a few of the things I have grown.
This is a guest post by Terri. Having done a variety of things in her life, including: quality control tech, document writer, training specialist, retail cashier, and more recently, product demonstrator; her greatest venture is being a wife of 11+ years and a mom to two girls.
This is part two of Cold Composting with Bokashi. You can also read: Part One
Converting our compost bin from the traditional, aerobic decomposition system to a more efficient, less smelly anaerobic system took an hour or so. First, let me know show you what we had to show for our old system. This is what we got when my husband removed our plastic compost bin from the pile. At first glance, this might not seem like a bad result for our efforts.
This is a guest post by Terri. Having done a variety of things in her life, including: quality control tech, document writer, training specialist, retail cashier, and more recently, product demonstrator; her greatest venture is being a wife of 11+ years and a mom to two girls.
This is part one of Cold Composting with Bokashi. You can also read: Part Two
Today the topic is dirty deeds. And by that, I mean making dirt – a process otherwise known as composting. This summer, we put in two raised garden beds. A lot of the cost involved in this little project was the bazillion bags of dirt and compost we had to purchase to fill the beds. A bummer? Yes, but that’s the cost of gardening, right? Wrong, I’m here to tell you, folks, there is a better way to make dirt!
I wouldn’t buy these boxes if you don’t have to. They range over a hundred dollars and you can easily make this kind of box for yourself. Find a cute little niche in your front or back yard.
Building your Square Foot Garden (SFG) is not hard to do.
You will need:
