Pantry Staples Archives * Living Driftless

How to Make Self-Rising Flour for your Pantry

Making some of your own pantry staples can save you time and money. This easy recipe for making Self Raising Flour will save time on your morning pancakes, quick biscuits and quick breads.

Fantastic Homesteading Tip that Quadruples your Money.

Most Homesteaders are finding ways to live with greater simplicity, focusing on improving their quality of life in a way that makes sense financially. Growing food takes time, money, and patience. While growing from seed is a very frugal way to begin a garden, one Homesteading Tip will still allow you to quadruple your investment […]

BIG Results Make Happy Sweet Potatoes

The results are in! We now know how to get big results when growing sweet potatoes. A while back I posted How to Start Sweet Potatoes At Home where I tried three methods of starting sweet potatoes at home, one of which I had already had success with. Now we know which ones give big […]

A $60 Tomato and other dirty truths of the Home Garden

It has been said that homesteading is a simple life of abundance, an independent more self-reliant way of living. It’s also dirty, smelly, hard work and kind of expensive when you mess up, because guess what? $60 tomatoes are a thing. Read on for this and other dirty truths of the home garden. $60 Tomatoes. […]