Start Your Seeds Indoors #1 – Building the Light Hut – Easy. Fast. Cheap.
Starting Your Own Seeds Joy! Joy! Joy! I may not be in my garden yet, but I’m playing with dirt in my …
Category: Real Food
Growing, raising, processing, preserving, cooking and eating real food
Old Fashioned Roasted Turkey Recipe
I roast my turkeys in the oven. Mamaw taught me how to roast a turkey. She does it the old fashioned way. …
German Roasted Nuts Recipe
How to Roast Your Own Nuts For step-by-step instructions with pictures go here. To get old fashioned recipes, farm tips and advice …
Can You Eat a Potbelly Pig?
Please don’t get mad at me for suggesting that you should eat your potbelly pig. I am not suggesting that at all. …
How to Buy Healthy Eggs
How to Buy Healthy Eggs. Between the low egg production due to winter (we don’t have a light in our coop) and …
Share Milking With a Calf
Milking time! Have I mentioned how much flexibility you can have when you keep your calf with your milk-cow? It is a …
Maple Sugar’in! Collecting Sap & Making Your Own Syrup
We have a little experience tapping maple trees. I am no expert, but I’m happy to show you how we do it. …
All Time Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie
Cookies are High Maintenance. Well, maybe the cookies aren’t, but the people eating them are. I am so picky when it comes …
Nothing is 100% Grass-Fed
** NOTE: Thank you to all the folks who have sent me info on the specifications of “grass-fed” animals. The guidelines for …
Fight Cancer With Food – What is CLA & How to Eat it
CLA was discovered in 1987 when scientists found it was able to fight cancer in mice. It’s true. CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) …
Why Snow is Good for Your Garden
Why Snow is Good for Your Garden It snowed! Here in Kentucky, we never know if we’re going to get “white stuff” …
Kentucky Burgoo Recipe
If you have never had Kentucky Burgoo, you should. It is an amazing, hearty, nutritious beefy, meaty stew. It takes some time …
Creamy Mashed Potatoes Recipe
Easy. Yummy. Real food. Great side dish. Here’s how I make fantastic mashed potatoes with no processed foods, no funny stuff, all …
Turkey Broth Recipe
Turkey Broth Recipe. Homemade bone-broths are nothing like the thin, watery stuff sold in cans or cartons at the grocery store. Homemade …
No, You Can’t Strain Milk with a Coffee Filter – in Case You were Wondering
No, You Can’t Strain Milk with a Coffee Filter. Ugh. Ugh and ugh again. I have the most fabulous milk strainer. Go …