This year I am starting a brand new adventure: growing red potatoes in a garbage can. I read about this online and I was fascinated by it. The idea is to plant your potato seeds in a garbage can, Continue Reading
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Things are growing in the garden…and it feels great.
My little garden is starting to grow and get all nice & greened up. It gets me all giddy just talking about it. Every morning and evening I go out to the garden mostly to stare at it a Continue Reading
Thrifty Tip: Which Mop to use?
Today I wanted to reshare one of my favorite thrifty tips for you all. My mop. I have been through many mops..sponge head ones, swiffer wetjet, clorox wet-jet, rag style + many more. But they were Continue Reading
The Old Recipe Box: 1935 Cornbread
I made my first recipe from my Great Grandmother Munn's recipe box - Cornbread with a date of 1935 on it. I am not really a big cornbread fan myself, but I wanted my family and I to try these recipes Continue Reading
FREE Bowling for Kids this Summer
As summer is almost here I wanted to share with you the awesome Kids Bowl Free Program where you can sign up your kids to have 2 free games every day all summer long. Kids age 15 and under can Continue Reading
A trip to Trish’s Farm, Introducing our 2 new Chicks + help us name them!
This past weekend we took a trip to Trish's farm who so sweetly offered to give our family 2 of her chickens after we lost Sweetie and Roxie to Comet the dog. Meet Trish - my new bestie. We are Continue Reading
Making Homemade Mozzarella Cheese
Making Homemade Mozzarella cheese was way easier than I thought it was going to be! It only took around 30 minutes to turn one $2.36 gallon of milk into a pound of fresh mozzarella. It's been a Continue Reading
How to get Free Containers for Starting Seeds Indoors
Today I wanted to share with you all how I was able to get FREE containers for starting seeds indoors. Last year I wanted a free container for planting my seedlings, so I tried the egg carton method. Continue Reading
Then there were two.
So we now only have 2 chickens after our dog Comet broke into the coop. The kids and I are doing much much better after the loss, we are almost ready to get a few more new ones again. The saddest Continue Reading
Happy Homesteading: Making Homemade Butter
Have you ever made homemade butter before? Well, if not you are in a for a treat, because that is just what we are talking about in today's Happy Homesteading post. I can remember when I was in Continue Reading
