Here is the thing about homesteading, sometimes you have great success, and sometimes you have epic failures. Well, I don’t like to think of them as failures, but rather the gift of learning from the experience, and believe me, I have had plenty of these. This post, however, is not about a failure. This is
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“Forget everything you thought you knew about holiday feasting, because we’re breaking down the biggest Thanksgiving nutrition myths. While everyone else is filling their plates with wild abandon come Thanksgiving, the more health-minded of us will try to make the best choices possible. Although, are sweet potatoes really better than white potatoes? Is loading your
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[Guest Post by Tim Graham] Fall Is just around the corner, and many of our summer vegetable harvests have come to an end. We now have the opportunity to think of new vegetable gardening ideas. Rather than packing up the areas of our veggie gardens, we can take this opportunity to grow well into the
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Are you ready for the next inevitable disaster? It’s been two months since hurricane Harvey hit. I can’t believe it, time really seems to fly. The farm has settled back to normal. For almost three weeks after the hurricane, we didn’t have a drop of rain which is great for those that needed to
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Poem by Joel, written 10/23/17 Does it matter? Do we care About that turkey lying there Oven roasted and golden brown Stuffed and dressed in festive gown? As we prepare to sit and celebrate Should we not properly contemplate How this turkey had a life Before being placed on fork and knife? Did
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[this post contains affiliate links] Do you remember as a kid the excitement you felt when you were waiting for a package in the mail? It reminds me of the movie a Christmas Story when he would check the mail every day for his decoder pin. I’m not a kid any more, but I was
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I recently had the opportunity to test products made by Infinity jars. They approached me and asked that I do an unbiased review of a couple of products of my choosing. After browsing the website I chose the 750 ml Square Bottle with oil spout and 2- 30 ml glass pipette dropper bottles. They claim
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[Guest Post by Katie Jones] It’s a fact that multitudes of products used for various house cleaning jobs contain chemicals. There’s no denying that these chemicals are indeed effective for cleaning but many homeowners overlook their side effects. They are mostly irritants and can cause serious and permanent damage to your health if exposed for
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The culinary uses of basil are well known, but the benefits of this aromatic plant go well beyond putting it in spaghetti sauce. Basil belongs to the mint family and has many varieties including Thai basil, lemon basil, and holy basil (just to name a few, there are actually 35). It belongs to the genus
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One of the biggest challenges to gardening in Southeast Texas is the intense heat and humidity. One of my goals for the homestead is to have greens all summer long. Anyone who knows anything about greens (lettuces, kale, collard, chard, spinach) knows that they do not tolerate heat well, so to find a green that
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