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Ricotta Donuts
It’s very rare that I post a recipe not my own, but some things are too good to not be shared and some recipes so perfect, there’s simply no way to improve them. Meet Melissa’s donuts – which are all...
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My Working Farm Kitchen.
Perhaps I talk a bit too much about my kitchen. I’ve done lots and lots of blog posts and videos about how this area has changed over the 7.5 years that we’ve called our small cottage home. The...
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Journal Entry: 8.8.23
The kids were upset this morning that they had to be born into a homesteading family. Apparently that 6:15 wake up call came a bit too early for their taste. Stuart and I had already been up milking...
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Journal Entry: 8.9.23
The more life you let in, the messier it gets. Even on our two acres of land and a few handfuls of friends and family, it's sloppy. This past week, my best friend's Grandfather died. Then, Stuart's...
View ArticleCome Be A Homemaker With Me For A Day…
Perhaps today isn’t the best day for me to share with you a “day in the life of a homemaker” video. After all, I may have pouted quite vocally about the list of tasks the home held for me this...
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The way Italians Taught Me To Make Tomato Passata
Hello my friends, I’m back in the work-saddle after over a week away in South Carolina. The intention wasn’t to completely fall out of the work-saddle, but as fate would have it, my laptop broke just...
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Make Your Own: Sun-dried Tomatoes
Hello my friends, As I was bent over the tomato plants, sweating in the insulting September heat, I reminded myself as I picked tomato after tomato to give thanks for the harvest at hand. I kept...
View Article10 Tips For An Efficient Homestead Kitchen
For us, this season means days spent in the kitchen, plates of cookies, breakfast bakes, and often extra places set for company. It is a bustling and buzzing time of dishes, bowls of winter citrus,...
View ArticleOld-Fashioned Meat Pie
It can be equally exciting and melancholy to look back over one’s life and ask the question “How did I get here?”. I often do. Though I’m not one typically who spends too much time looking backwards,...
View ArticleCome Tour Our Winter Root Cellar
I am happiest in my kitchen (and the garden, really, who am I kidding.) Perhaps the pleasure of being in the kitchen is enhanced by time spent in the garden as so much of our food is connected back to...
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Creating New Nostalgia
Hello my friends! And Happy New Year! Though I wish I magically felt refreshed by the flipping of the calendar, I (quite pathetically) stumbled into January exhausted from the holiday season and with...
View ArticleMaking This Greenhouse Grow In Winter!
I can’t pretend like this is a perfectly happy project to share with you. Truth be told, many words were screamed during the course of getting the greenhouse to this point. (Some holier than others)....
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Life At -12°…
It feels a bit obvious and unnecessary to say that it’s been cold here these past few days. Of course it has – it’s been cold everywhere. Still, this level of cold means that life on the farm has to...
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Dairy Sheep: It Finally Happened!
Hello my friends, Frankly, I should be cleaning my house right now. There are needed and practical tasks that demand attention! Dusty bunnies gather in the corners as we speak. Yet the call of this...
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Homestead Garden Goals
Hello my friends, I enjoy meeting here with you here and sharing the homestead garden goals, wins, highlights, and victories that we get to experience on our 2.5 acre, from-scratch farm. In our 15...
View ArticleLetting go of Miss Perfect
In this week’s new YouTube video, we’re talking about letting go of Miss Perfect. Perhaps you’ve met her? Let me tell you a story. I am currently reading through the murder-mystery The Nine Tailors by...
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