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Hands down, our favorite homegrown garden veggie is Baby Lima Beans! I know that’s probably shocking to many of you… only because you’ve never had the joy of enjoying them fresh from the garden!  I grew up

Drying/Dehydrating is a super easy way to preserve potatoes.  I’m sure the first thing you’re thinking is what do you “do” with dried potatoes.. Well – as I use mine this winter, I’ll be posting my recipes! (think au gratin, scalloped,  and hash browns, just to name a few!)

We grow our own potatoes and since we haven’t have the best success storing them long term.. we started canning them! There’s nothing worse than having a bunch of beautiful, homegrown, organic potatoes that rot before you can eat them, canning offers a shelf-stable way to preserve them for years to come 🙂 As always,…

Just over a week ago, we said good bye to some of our feathered friends (read my post HERE emotionally explaining WHY and HOW)… and I’m sure many of you where curious as to what we’d do with 55 chickens! We aren’t a “farm” We don’t raise chickens to “sell” Chickens aren’t “income” for us…We…

` I don’t know where to start. I want to tell you my side of the story but I know some of you will read this with preconceived bias, you’ll be judgmental and maybe even rude… I beg of you to please just listen to what I have to say for a few minutes and be…

How awesome?! I just added, yet another, homemade and really cheap household product to my existing recipe book and it really really works! I run my very cheap dishwasher a lot and I abuse it..  I hate rinsing dishes and this works better than finish or cascade that I’ve used for years!! Dishwasher Detergent Recipe:…

  One of the worst parts of gardening is weeding! And this being our 13th year as gardeners we’ve tried everything to simplify and minimize the garden weeding. We transitioned to raised garden beds early on, I think it’s been about 10 years now.. we’ll never-ever go back to a traditional in the ground garden…..

Every time I got my gallon bucket of coconut oil out, I always thought there has to be an easier way! Then the other morning when giving Hercules, our puppy, his morning scoop of coconut oil, I had a great idea….Perfectly Portioned Coconut Oil!! What if I had little 1 tablespoon solid portions of coconut…

I found a great new website tonight, The Nerdy Farm Wife and instantly fell in love with her idea for homemade Honey Tootsie Rolls! I just couldn’t wait to make my own version using my favorite sweetener, Coconut Sugar! (even though I love honey, I’m kind-of obsessed with coconut sugar and love experimenting with it…

One final item that we’ve needed to eliminate from our diet is store bought mayonaise containing (GMO) soybean oil. I’ve tried several organic and natural brands but none of them really tasted like the stuff we’ve eaten and loved our whole lives. Sure, I’ve made mayo before and it’s turned out well, but I’ve never…

So, I can’t take credit for this recipe. It’s one of my favorite foods that my Grandma Elsie would make when I was growing up. Oven Roasted Pepitas! I always remember Gram Elsie would have a little tupperware container of puffy-crispy Pepitas sitting on her counter to munch on. Of course it’s one of the…