[This post contains affiliate links] Money, Money Money……C’ome on ya all know you heard that song in your head. Money…. “It makes the world go round;” it’s the root of all evil; “A penny saved is a penny earned;” “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” We have
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“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson I got lucky this year. We usually aren’t graced with the presence of the wild plantain, until late winter/early spring, but a warm winter has it peeking out. This is lucky for you and for me, because
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I was talking the other weekend to a customer at a holiday bazaar where we were selling our soaps about our goats. Numerous people have told me about how they grew up on goat milk because they couldn’t digest cow’s milk or the store formula. I talk about the benefits of drinking goat milk HERE,
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The Benefits of Lavender/Sandalwood Exfoliating Bar I’ve talked about the benefits of goat milk soap. You can read about that HERE. But I wanted to highlight some of the benefits of the different essential oils that I use so that when you are making a decision about which soaps to buy you can be better
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Growing Purple Cone Flower (Echinacea) I am pretty excited about what just popped up, especially since I thought it wasn’t going to germinate. About a month ago, my purple cone flower started to emerge, much to my surprise, since the seeds were planted in the spring. Echinacea is actually native to North America, which is
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When It Comes to Homemade Soaps They say the patience is a virtue (man, that is so clique’)….. but when you’re waiting for something as good as our 100% raw goat milk soaps, it can be really hard. One of my favorite parts of the soap making process is seeing what the bars
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Sometimes this homestead/farming thing is just plain hard. Sometimes, if I were honest with you, I just want to throw in the towel and forget it. It can get discouraging when plants don’t produce the way want them to, when animals get sick, and when things break down. It can even be more discouraging when
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Well, Duck Eggs Maybe Your Answer Recently, we had a person contact us specifically for duck eggs. In fact, she has spent a lot of time searching for individuals in our area that sold duck eggs. She even went so far as Louisiana to purchase them. Why, I wondered? Turns out she is allergic to
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The Drumstick Tree I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE finding new plants that will grow well here in southeast Texas and lucky me, I have found a great tree. Yeah me! We have several fruit trees on the property. These include pear, peach, lemon, loquat, and fig. All are organized into a permaculture guild (. The hurricane
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Why Has My Local Farmer’s Chickens Stopped Laying Eggs? I NEED MY EGGS!!! I hear you. Believe me I do. There are many reasons that hens stopped laying, and when you are used to buying eggs from the supermarket where there is a ready supply, you may not realize that there is a natural cycle
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