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Spice Up Your Pickling Game: Try This Easy Homemade Pickling Spice Recipe

Cooking, Pantry Staples, Preserving, The FarmHouse

Have you bought a Pickling Spice blend at the store? It usually looks bland and colorless, has a high proportion of the cheapest ingredients, and not much of anything else. That’s why I started making our own. Homemade Picking Spice allows you to experiment with different flavors and spice up your pickling game! Basic Pickling […]

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. […]