Compost Your Own Kitchen Scraps
Compost Your Own Kitchen Scraps There is no reason to scrape all the scraps, leftovers or rotted foods into the garbage can …
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Fastest Way to Peel Garlic
The Fastest Way to Peel Garlic There are a couple of ways to peel garlic. You can open the bulb & peel …
6 Reasons We Raise Our Own Food
“Why Do You Raise Your Own Food?” Why on earth do I spend half my life milking a cow who likes to …
How to Chop Onions Without Crying
I know the secret to chopping up strong onions without crying your eyeballs out of your head. Unfortunately, I am not a …
10 Things You Can Do This Week to Be Healthier
I realize not everyone can own a milk cow. Or chickens. Or pigs. Or a garden. I used to be that person. …
How to Eat Real Food
The 2 things that you must do to live are the 2 things that are slowly killing you. Eating and Breathing. People …
Meet Candi –
Hi! I talk about the animals, the garden, the farm and good things from the kitchen around here all the time. I …
Do Homesteaders Buy Groceries?
Do Homesteaders Buy Groceries? We raise much of our own food including meat, vegetables, some fruit, eggs, and dairy products. When …
Chicken in the Flowers
I think the chickens have been in my flowers….. again. I have a flower obsession. I am pretty good at loving them, …
Cattleman’s Field Day
Out here in the country there is an annual Cattleman’s Field Day. It is provided by our local UK College of Agriculture …
The Cat on the Porch
Tapp was a wild, and I mean wild, and feral cat. You could not get near him to save your life. He …
Introduction to Raising Pigs
I don’t know the right way to raise pigs. There are lots of schools of thought on it. You can raise them …
Let Your Cow Raise Your Beef
Let Your Cow Raise Your Beef Have I told you that we keep our calf with our cow? It is a nice …
Getting a Family Milk Cow – Part 3
…..in case you just tuned in. Part 1 Here Part 2 Here Here’s a recap: Our cow had spent her entire milking life …
Getting a Family Milk Cow – Part 2
To go back to the beginning go here. This is the second part in our milk-cow story. We hand picked our wonderful …